!!!Drag cards to the right edge of the screen to discard to speed up your redraw timer. !!!!

^^^ Game is definitely beatable without it but it is part of the intended difficulty!

Submission for the GMTK Gamejam 2026

Think fast in this real time deck-enchanting heart-racing solitaire game! Defeat enemies with the right cards in the right order and empower your deck to win.

Instructions:

Play cards of the same color and number as the enemy in order to deal hearts. 

Use your talisman power to modify your hand or the board to play fast.


Hotkeys/controls:

You can use your number keys 1-9 to select cards

q (redraw) 

w (talisman power)

e (discard selected card)


Card Reference:

Dense - Deal 2 extra hearts

Echo - Returns to hand after being played

Icebox - Cast: Draw 4 cards. Freeze your hand for 5 seconds

Purify - Turn enemy permanently yellow (It can be hit by either color)

Shrink - Cast: Draw a card and lower all numbers in hand by 1

Spellbind - Cast: Bind all enemies for 4 seconds

Spellshift - Cast: Draw 3 cards, discard 2 leftmost cards Strategize - Cast: Apply analyzed 1 to all enemies (can be targted with numbers one higher or lower than their number)

Surge - Cast: Draw a card and raise all cards in hand by 1


Download

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Defend_Sol_Atarria_v0.2.zip 42 MB
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defend_sol_atarria_html_1_1.zip 18 MB
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defend_sol_atarria_html_1_2.zip 18 MB

Install instructions

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