Hello and welcome to our dev blog, where we will be showcasing all the features of Cryptic Legends, and probably discovering some things about it ourselves along the way. After three months of working on the game, we believe we are ready to invite you along for the journey.

With Cryptic Legends, we wanted to make a game that will entail what we love about card games and RPGs: collecting assets, trading and hunting for rarities to improve your tactics.

There are many games that do this well and go beyond this, spawning complex meta, with entire trading ecosystems. But the thing is, everything you achieve in the game, stays in the game. Can you say that you truly “own” a digital asset, like a card or skin, created and maintained by a company?

But if your in-game assets were recorded on the blockchain — which means there is an immutable public record of ownership and no copies are made upon trade — you could say that you control them in a way that is commensurate with you owning them. So in Cryptic Legends, we coupled card games and blockchains, and the numerous heroes you collect through playing to build a more powerful team and unlock the legends truly are your digital assets, that you collect, use and trade.

The heroes are of course your main asset in the game itself. You can select your “hand” or team of heroes from those you have in your camp, to combat against other players’ teams. Each hero can be further customized by selecting their role in the formation, as well as by assigning skill points and equipping items. And then it’s time to send them off into battle, and pray to the four gods that they prevail.

We opted for automatic battles with some possibility of adjusting tactics between turns since we wanted to instill heroes with a sense of autonomy, of things and forces beyond the player’s control — just like in legends and stories our game is built upon.

The legends that have inspired us come from various cultures, but we decided to focus on three to begin with — with hopes of adding more as the game grows. These are Norse, Celtic and Slavic — and we scoured the sagas, lays cycles, fairy tales and myths, to build a world where those legends are part of history. The players can piece them together by collecting cryptics, paragraph-sized bits of text that come with every character, and in this way you can discover the stories that echo some of the most captivating tales from the rich storytelling traditions of these three cultures.

In the weeks ahead, we’ll cover all the features in detail, so you can judge for yourselves whether our game is worthy of its Legendary name.

In the meantime, you can apply for our closed beta and also join us on Discord, so you can be in the loop about our plans.

Hope to hear from you soon!

The CL Team