HANDS OF THE UNBOUND

Poker hands are your weapon. Shields decide the fight.

The game · version 3

Travel each floor as a map: rooms, trails, challenges
Rival Elites on different terms
The Soul Tree: embers from every run
Reworked screen changes
Switch versions from the tab on the left edge

1 · The Original, 2 · The Wayfarer, 3 · The Pathfinder
Two versions at once, each with its own saves
DEV panel in each: floors, fast-forward, averages

Your Kings, Queens and Jacks in every border set
Five affinities, Lightning included
Fonts, icons, sizes and finishes; arrow keys to step, S to save

Animation prototype

Paired Hand Tomes

All twelve closed/open artwork pairs
Transparent, aligned source assets
Switch tomes from the preview

Interactive concept

The Gilded Detour

Optional treasure branch with free backtracking
Break a Ruby Geode using poker hands
Solve a hand-sealed chest and visible-odds wager
Carry rewards out—or leave safely

Interactive design lab

Paths & Soul Trees

Five playable treasure-map structures
Five Soul Tree systems from clean to mythic
Restore named people and awaken Memory Gems
Compare readability, complexity and story weight

Precision rebuild · 150 gems

Soul Tree Geometry Lab

Pixel-aligned 5 × 6 boughs
Connectors confined to dedicated corridors
Orchard overview and dependency focus views
Responsive scrolling without crushed geometry

Parallel progression experiment

The Tenfold Release

Ten dragon-themed permanent world boons
Compare Chainbreaker and Guardian framing
Base-to-ascendant dragon transformations
A second progression axis beyond the Soul Tree

Interactive route experiment

Forward Detours Lab

Six playable side-path grammars
Bonus rooms that rejoin farther ahead
Enemy choices with distinct blind rules
Adjustable proximity fog, threat and backtracking

Every run is fully determined by its seed — type the same one twice to play it again.