Brushblade: Hanzi Card Battle

Your cards are Chinese characters. Your deck-building is splitting and fusing them. Brushblade (字·斗) is a turn-based roguelike card battler built on how Chinese characters are actually made. Break a character into its parts, recombine components into something stronger, and turn the result against the glyph monsters that have overrun the world of writing. SPLIT AND FUSE • Split a character mid-battle into its components, then fuse components into new characters in a single step. • 木 + 木 becomes 林. 火 + 火 becomes 炎, and 火 + 炎 becomes 焱. Recipes follow real character structure. • Character cards show pinyin and meaning, so you pick up a few characters while you play. FIVE ELEMENTS • Every character card belongs to Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal or Water. • Hit an enemy with the element that overcomes it for 1.5× damage; attack the one that overcomes you and you deal half. • Summon wood spirits, set foes ablaze, freeze and heal, raise shields, block and counter, sweep whole rows: each element plays differently. THE INK TOWER • Every floor is a battle. Every 5th floor is a boss; every 10 floors you enter a new themed realm, from the Glyph Grove to the Ink Abyss: eleven realms and 105 floors, with a final boss waiting at the top. • Over 40 kinds of glyph monsters, 10 leaders, and more than 20 bosses named after four-character idioms. • Random encounters, pick 2 of 5 loot characters after a fight, and safe floors where you can bank your climb or push deeper. • Suspend a climb at any time and continue later from the same floor. COLLECT AND GROW • 55 collectible character cards across seven rarities, plus dozens of radicals and components. • Beat bosses for timed chests, level up your cards, unlock perks, and fill your bestiary for bounties. • A daily shop where you spend the ink you earn in the tower. FAIR FREE-TO-PLAY • Free to play. No in-app purchases. • Ads are always optional: watch one only if you want a bonus, such as opening a chest sooner or reviving once. • No account needed. Your progress stays on your device, with optional cloud save to your own platform account, and you can play offline. An ink-and-rice-paper art style, a procedurally composed pentatonic soundtrack, and haptic feedback on hits (can be turned off in Settings). Language: English and Simplified Chinese. The game follows your device language and can be switched in Settings.

New random event "Verse Duel": match the scholar's lines for a chance at bonus Ink. Bug fixes and stability improvements.