[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":353},["ShallowReactive",2],{"studio-blog-post-noctiria-steam-horror-roguelite-deckbuilder":3,"studio-blog-related-noctiria-steam-horror-roguelite-deckbuilder":318},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"category":292,"cover":22,"coverHref":15,"date":293,"description":294,"draft":295,"extension":296,"image":297,"meta":298,"navigation":87,"path":299,"seo":300,"stem":301,"tags":302,"takes":307,"__hash__":317},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fnoctiria-steam-horror-roguelite-deckbuilder.md","Noctiria Steam: Horror Roguelite Deckbuilder","junno",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":281},"minimark",[10,24,34,79,82,97,102,126,129,142,146,153,160,168,173,177,180,191,194,202,210,215,219,227,235,239,242,245,249,252,255,259,267],[11,12,18,19],"a",{"className":13,"href":15,"title":16,"style":17},[14],"vg-hotframe","https:\u002F\u002Fstore.steampowered.com\u002Fapp\u002F4744550\u002FNoctiria\u002F","Noctiria on Steam","background-image:url(\u002Fblog\u002Fnoctiria-steam-horror-roguelite-deckbuilder-bp-shadow.webp)","\n  ",[20,21],"img",{"src":22,"alt":23},"https:\u002F\u002Fshared.akamai.steamstatic.com\u002Fstore_item_assets\u002Fsteam\u002Fapps\u002F4744550\u002Fc092398ac5d3f04601e4db3890f43d147d7773d2\u002Fss_c092398ac5d3f04601e4db3890f43d147d7773d2.1920x1080.jpg?t=1789736416","Official Noctiria screenshot: Choose Your Character screen with Shadow selected, full-body jagged silhouette and glowing white eyes on a rainy 1990s street (Doesn't Matter Games)",[25,26,30,33],"p",{"className":27,"style":29},[28],"blog-muted","margin:-0.75rem 0 1.5rem;font-size:0.9em",[11,31,32],{"href":15},"Noctiria (Steam)",". Hover for a Voidge draft sketch inspired by a fragment of Shadow.",[25,35,36,40,41,44,45,48,49,52,53,56,57,60,61,64,65,71,72,78],{},[37,38,39],"strong",{},"Noctiria"," unlocked on Steam on ",[37,42,43],{},"September 18, 2026",", and deadass it is not mid Slay the Spire cosplay. ",[37,46,47],{},"Daniele Doesn't Matter"," ships under ",[37,50,51],{},"Doesn't Matter Games"," a horror roguelite deckbuilder set in a corroded, filthy, diseased ",[37,54,55],{},"1990s"," city that does not want to be remembered. App ID ",[37,58,59],{},"4744550",". List price ",[37,62,63],{},"$9.99",". Single-player, full controller support (DualShock and DualSense called out), Steam Cloud, achievements, leaderboards, Family Sharing. Windows only for now. Support mail sits at ",[37,66,67],{},[11,68,70],{"href":69},"mailto:d.matter.podcast@gmail.com","d.matter.podcast@gmail.com",". Site: ",[11,73,77],{"href":74,"rel":75},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.doesntmattergames.com",[76],"nofollow","doesntmattergames.com",".",[25,80,81],{},"For real, that page sells a wound, not a season pass. Every card is a wound. Every choice leaves something behind. Every run brings you closer to the truth or drags you deeper. Wild how clean that pitch is when half the indie shelf is still whispering about vibes.",[83,84,18,92],"video",{"className":85,"controls":87,"playsInline":87,"preload":88,"width":89,"height":90,"poster":91},[86],"vg-clip",true,"metadata",1280,720,"https:\u002F\u002Fshared.akamai.steamstatic.com\u002Fstore_item_assets\u002Fsteam\u002Fapps\u002F257387599\u002F191de61ffa37ba45bac0aa2d78de332abb0b20ec\u002Fmovie_600x337.jpg?t=1785323760",[93,94],"source",{"src":95,"type":96},"\u002Fblog\u002Fnoctiria-steam-horror-roguelite-deckbuilder-clip.mp4","video\u002Fmp4",[98,99,101],"h2",{"id":100},"six-heroes-six-ways-to-get-cooked","Six heroes, six ways to get cooked",[25,103,104,105,108,109,108,112,108,115,108,118,121,122,125],{},"You pick from ",[37,106,107],{},"Shadow",", ",[37,110,111],{},"Mist",[37,113,114],{},"Void",[37,116,117],{},"Parasite",[37,119,120],{},"Abyss",", and ",[37,123,124],{},"Reflection",". These are not palette swaps. Each hero brings a starting deck, card pool, archetypes, and a combat rhythm that can go aggressive, status-grind, control, sacrifice, Mana manipulation, or delayed detonation. Unlocking a new hero means learning how to survive all over again. No notes if you bounce off Shadow's fast folds of darkness and then click Void's nebula chest like it is a different game, because it kind of is.",[25,127,128],{},"Shadow is the readable silhouette on the character screen: tall spindly body of jagged charcoal shards, smooth egg head, two pupil-less white eyes, clawed hands that look like they could shred a turn before the enemy reads the intention. Mist swirls with orange eyes. Void is purple-skinned with a starry void in the chest. Three slots start locked behind padlocks. Progress stats on the still (level, runs, bosses, cards unlocked and upgraded) make the long-term grind loud without a battle pass meter.",[25,130,131,132,136,137,141],{},"If your recent indie porch already ate the short crypt blood tax of ",[11,133,135],{"href":134},"\u002Fblog\u002Fconcrete-burial-steam-launch\u002F","Concrete Burial"," or the rainy detective chill of ",[11,138,140],{"href":139},"\u002Fblog\u002Frehaunted-steam-launch\u002F","Rehaunted",", Noctiria is a colder temperature with a deck in your hand instead of a blood tube.",[98,143,145],{"id":144},"resting-is-a-trap-with-a-moon-icon","Resting is a trap with a moon icon",[25,147,148,149,152],{},"Combat is classic turn structure with a twist the store will not shut up about: ",[37,150,151],{},"Corruption"," is not a decorative bar. It rewires rest, trade, and movement. After a fight you can take a cautious recovery, push a deeper rest and accept consequences, skip rest to upgrade a card, or bleed health for an extreme upgrade. Card upgrades stick for that hero across future descents, so the permanent progress is real.",[25,154,155,156,159],{},"The ",[37,157,158],{},"Bonfire of Lost Souls"," still is mad honest about the tax. Long Rest: full HP, plus thirty Corruption, possible elite battle. Medium Rest: half HP, plus ten Corruption, possible enemy. Short Rest: thirty percent HP, no negative effects. Extreme Upgrade: minus thirty HP, minus one hundred gold, plus ten Corruption, upgrade three cards. Basic Upgrade: one card, cleaner. Flavor text on the screen: someone was here before you, but you find no sign they ever left. That ain't cozy campfire energy. That is a city charging rent on your Sanity.",[11,161,18,164],{"className":162,"href":15,"title":163,"style":17},[14],"Noctiria Bonfire of Lost Souls",[20,165],{"src":166,"alt":167},"https:\u002F\u002Fshared.akamai.steamstatic.com\u002Fstore_item_assets\u002Fsteam\u002Fapps\u002F4744550\u002F0929bf486aae735669224b646f9b44b49dc47f77\u002Fss_0929bf486aae735669224b646f9b44b49dc47f77.1920x1080.jpg?t=1789736416","Official Noctiria screenshot: Bonfire of Lost Souls rest and upgrade menu with Long Rest, Medium Rest, Short Rest, Extreme Upgrade, and Basic Upgrade cards (Steam)",[25,169,171,33],{"className":170,"style":29},[28],[11,172,32],{"href":15},[98,174,176],{"id":175},"status-chains-that-actually-go-hard","Status chains that actually go hard",[25,178,179],{},"Battles lean on status effects that stack into chain reactions: Poison, Burn, Intoxication, Decay, Paralysis, Intrusion, Drowning, Rust, Sharpening. Some decks nuke now. Some decks need time. Some decks turn every new status into the next turn's detonation. Mana, Shield, draw manipulation, and card removal all sit in the same sentence as \"a deck that is too large can become uncontrollable.\" Deadass that is the kind of sentence that separates a real deckbuilder from a card skin on autopilot.",[25,181,182,183,186,187,190],{},"One combat still freezes Shadow on the left against ",[37,184,185],{},"Zek",", a yellowish insectoid on Charging, and ",[37,188,189],{},"Mirel",", a pale gaunt figure telegraphing an eleven damage Attack. Hand shows red-border lightning strikes, a purple zero-cost Infinite style card, and a blue hooded spell. End Turn sits loud. Intention reading is part of the loop, not a tooltip you ignore.",[25,192,193],{},"Pathing between fights uses handcrafted maps with branching nodes for battles, elites, bosses, rest, merchants, treasures, and unknown events. You cannot face everything. A safe path can leave you underbuilt. A dangerous detour can drop the card that completes the engine. The city is an open wound that knows which road you picked.",[25,195,196,197,201],{},"Same way ",[11,198,200],{"href":199},"\u002Fblog\u002Fhalloween-the-game-steam-charts\u002F","Halloween the Game"," keeps horror chatter on the Voidge porch when charts get loud, Noctiria is selling a weeknight descent without live-service lobby prices. Roguelite map. Horror tone. Deck that hurts.",[11,203,18,206],{"className":204,"href":15,"title":205,"style":17},[14],"Noctiria combat with Shadow",[20,207],{"src":208,"alt":209},"https:\u002F\u002Fshared.akamai.steamstatic.com\u002Fstore_item_assets\u002Fsteam\u002Fapps\u002F4744550\u002Fa571b2045bd160311c61d089adf5bcc20e7ccee5\u002Fss_a571b2045bd160311c61d089adf5bcc20e7ccee5.1920x1080.jpg?t=1789736416","Official Noctiria combat screenshot: Shadow facing Zek and Mirel with a five-card hand and End Turn button in a misty forest (Steam)",[25,211,213,33],{"className":212,"style":29},[28],[11,214,32],{"href":15},[98,216,218],{"id":217},"small-studio-stamp-discovery-shelf-no-aaa-chrome","Small studio stamp, discovery shelf, no AAA chrome",[25,220,221,222,226],{},"Doesn't Matter Games is not a marketing committee. One named creator, a podcast-shaped support inbox, a public site, and a Steam page that spends its word count on Corruption and rest taxes instead of influencer roadmaps. That is the Voidge indie lane: spotlight the small room so the relationship can grow into interviews later, the same path that opened after coverage like ",[11,223,225],{"href":224},"\u002Fblog\u002Fmagical-blush-alkacer-steam-launch\u002F","Magical Blush",". Noctiria fits: readable horror silhouette, hotlinkable Steam art, and a systems hook that is not \"another cozy farm.\"",[25,228,229,230,234],{},"Today's cozy farm energy already got airtime with ",[11,231,233],{"href":232},"\u002Fblog\u002Ffarming-camp-steam-september-release\u002F","Farming Camp",". Noctiria is the opposite temperature on the same calendar day. One watering can. One Sanity meter. Pick your poison.",[98,236,238],{"id":237},"who-should-descend-tonight-who-should-wait","Who should descend tonight, who should wait",[25,240,241],{},"If you already live in roguelite maps, status-effect decks, and short horror nights that respect a weeknight, the buy button is easy. Streamers who want readable silhouettes (Shadow's white eyes pop on camera) and a rest menu that argues back get a clean pitch. Collectors of small-studio Steam launches finally have a September 18 reason that is not another survivors clone.",[25,243,244],{},"If you need co-op lobbies, ranked seasons, or a free campfire that never taxes you, this ain't it. Single-player on purpose. Corruption and Sanity are the point. $9.99 with no launch discount listed at write time means you are paying for the wound as printed.",[98,246,248],{"id":247},"how-to-walk-into-the-launch-window","How to walk into the launch window",[25,250,251],{},"Skim the Official Trailer so the rainy street, the thorny red Noctiria logo with embedded eyes and skull, and the first Shadow combat beat are clear before you spend the evening. Leave one clean run on one hero. Do not stack it on a remaster marathon and a midnight live-service session.",[25,253,254],{},"Watch that character select again. Cobbles. Books sign. Shadow's shard body. Two empty white eyes. That is the promise Doesn't Matter Games sold into a Steam unlock. For real take a look if horror deckbuilders are your lane, and wait a patch beat if day-one review volume makes you cautious.",[98,256,258],{"id":257},"image-credits-rights","Image credits & rights",[25,260,261,262,266],{},"Images on this page are hotlinks from the official ",[11,263,265],{"href":15,"rel":264},[76],"Steam"," store page for Noctiria (Doesn't Matter Games), used with respect for their copyright.",[268,269,270,276],"ul",{},[271,272,273],"li",{},[11,274,16],{"href":15,"rel":275},[76],[271,277,278],{},[11,279,51],{"href":74,"rel":280},[76],{"title":282,"searchDepth":283,"depth":283,"links":284},"",2,[285,286,287,288,289,290,291],{"id":100,"depth":283,"text":101},{"id":144,"depth":283,"text":145},{"id":175,"depth":283,"text":176},{"id":217,"depth":283,"text":218},{"id":237,"depth":283,"text":238},{"id":247,"depth":283,"text":248},{"id":257,"depth":283,"text":258},"indie","2026-09-19T13:00:00","Noctiria hits Steam Sep 18: horror roguelite deckbuilder in a diseased 1990s city. Six heroes, Sanity, corruption, $9.99 from Doesn't Matter Games.",false,"md","\u002Fblog\u002Fnoctiria-steam-horror-roguelite-deckbuilder-bp-shadow.webp",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fnoctiria-steam-horror-roguelite-deckbuilder",{"title":5,"description":294},"blog\u002Fnoctiria-steam-horror-roguelite-deckbuilder",[303,304,305,306],"noctiria","horror","deckbuilder","steam",[308,311,314],{"author":309,"text":310},"pixxer","Shadow's smooth egg head with those two empty white circles against the jagged shard body is the whole read. The wet cobbles and Thompson & Co books sign keep the 90s street from turning into generic fog mush.",{"author":312,"text":313},"remmy","Honestly the rest menu selling Long Rest as a corruption tax is what clicked for me. A small studio putting risk on recovery instead of a free campfire is pretty solid discovery energy.",{"author":315,"text":316},"voltz","Lowkey a deckbuilder that makes resting clutch or mid depending on moon phase is fire for the lobby crowd tired of free heals. Status chains that cook a turn later keep the run from going autopilot.","2bnO0sz3TQ7v-PXEVECy0AhNv7QHZ5pRhnjAtdFPI2E",[319,331,343],{"path":320,"title":321,"description":322,"date":323,"category":292,"author":315,"tags":324,"image":328,"cover":329,"coverHref":330},"\u002Fblog\u002Fcrown-siege-steam-wave-defense-launch","Crown Siege Steam: Incremental Wave Defense","Crown Siege unlocks Steam Sep 18: incremental wave defense from JOrbits Games. 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