How to play

Prepare by day. Survive the night.

SnapDragon is a survival adventure you play with cards. You don't need to know any of this before you start — your first run hands you a ready deck and walks you through it. This is the whole game in five minutes.

The goal

You've been pulled into a strange, beautiful, dangerous world. Each run is a stretch of days you have to live through. Spend each day getting ready. Get through each night alive. Make it to the end of the run, face what's been waiting for you — and earn your way home.

You win a run by surviving to its final night and beating what comes. You lose if something gets you first. Simple to start; the depth is yours to grow into.

Your day: three actions

Every day you get three actions. Choose them well — once you commit an action, there are no take-backs. This is where you decide how ready you'll be when the sun goes down.

Gather

Bring in wood, food, and raw materials you'll need to build and survive.

Build

Raise structures — a smokehouse, a watchtower, a forge — that pay off every day after.

Hunt

Take on the wild for food and loot. Riskier, but it's how you get stronger fast.

Rest

Recover health and stamina. Sometimes the smartest move is to catch your breath.

Scout

Look ahead and learn exactly what's coming for you tonight — so nothing's a surprise.

Fortify

Dig in. Shore up your defenses so you're harder to take down after dark.

The night: one roll, all in

When night falls, something comes for you — and you'll have seen it coming. The fight is settled by a single roll of the die. But you're never rolling blind: the full math is shown before you roll.

You'll know exactly what you need to hit, and exactly how much the cards you packed and the prep you did add to your side. A good day stacks the odds in your favor. Then you roll, and you find out.

Beat the check and you live to see tomorrow. That's the heartbeat of the whole game: prepare, then find out.

Tonight's threatCindermaw
You need to hit14
Your cards & prep+6
The die (d20)?
So you need a…8+

Your deck is your survival

The cards you pack decide how strong you are. You start every journey with a 12-card deck, and it grows as you win — bigger and stronger, never watered down.

You build your deck from four kinds of cards you own:

Characters

Who you are — your base strength, defense, and a signature ability.

Resources

Fuel and materials — the stuff your plans are made of.

Builds

Structures that keep paying off, day after day.

Skills

The clutch plays — the edge that swings a hard night your way.

Grows as you win

Beat the game's challenges and your deck earns more room — up to 30 cards. Longer journeys, bigger hands, deeper strategy. A new player is never handed a 30-card decision; you grow into it, one win at a time.

Some cards can only be won

Beat a challenge and you claim its card. The rarest cards in SnapDragon aren't for sale at any price — they're earned by surviving. When you play someone who's carrying one, you'll know they went through something to get it.

Beat the level. Claim its card. Some cards can only be won — never bought.

Getting started is easy

1 · Just play

Your first run hands you a ready-made deck — no deck-building required. Sign in with Google and go.

2 · Learn by doing

A few gentle prompts show you the ropes as you play. You'll have it by the end of run one.

3 · Make it yours

Once you've found your feet, the deck builder opens up — and the real strategy begins.

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