BROODHOUSE Demo

Your power is in the cards you can't draw. Every creature card belongs to a strain. Play one and it doesn't hit for the number printed on it — it hits for the entire population of that strain, everywhere in your deck at once. Draw pile, discard, hand, all of it counts. You never need to find the right card. You only need it to exist. The demo is one full run, start to finish. Nothing stops halfway. You sign a Contract — one restriction and one compensation that rewrite the run's physics before you pick a single strain — then cross all five layers and fight The Gardener, and you get the same Herbarium sheet at the end that the full game gives you.

What the demo holds back is width, not depth: five of the ten strains, three of the six Contracts, one of the three bosses. Carrying capacity, Feral, BLOOM, the heritable mutations, the enemy tells and the post-battle nodes are all here in full. A run takes 25 to 40 minutes. Every card asks the same question, every turn.HARVEST it for damage now, or SOW it to breed more of its strain and hit harder for the rest of the run.

There is no energy bar. Your hand refills to five and every card in it is yours to spend — the cost of sowing is simply the damage you chose not to deal.…