0.7.44: the High Tide water pack, the Crash Dummy, the Wedded, and kind finishers
A 22nd pack that floods the road with Tide Pools, two new warlords, a rare kind ending for every lord, and paper places behind most of the plain screens.
Cardboard Conquest: Deckbuilding Autobattler
Every card is an army in a beautiful papercraft world full of surprises. Choose from slimes, ghosts, a bug hivemind, giants, and more, across 22 distinct packs with unique playstyles. Earn the cardboard crown solo or online with up to three friends.
Coming to Steam Early Access in March 2027. Windows, macOS and Linux.
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The trailer
Cardboard Conquest is a roguelite deckbuilder-autobattler fought on a desk. Draft your packs, play your cards onto the board, and watch a paper army fight it out. Climb the war map, break the bosses, take the crown, solo or in online co-op with up to four warlords.
Every run opens with a draft: 3 themed card packs out of 22. Armored legions, spider broods, walking bombs, con artists, love sorcery, splitting slimes, rising ghosts. Together they become your entire card pool. Even your commander is assembled from the packs you pick, so no two runs look or play the same.
969Cards
22Draftable packs
43Named enemy lords
281Pins
133Written events
100Achievements
A script counts these out of the build on every deploy. The fact sheet has the rest.
From the devlog
0.7.43: the enemy lords play from their own decks
Enemy lords now play from decks built from their own cards, a new player's first march is directed, and the Lost Witch gets a Storm Apprentice.
0.7.41: the last blows cut from paper, Champions on equal terms, and co-op friends
All 27 Throne of Vows finishers rebuilt in cut paper, both Champions seats play by the same rules, and co-op keeps one council code and a friends list.
Wishlist Cardboard Conquest
A wishlist is the single most useful thing you can do for a one-person studio. It is how Steam decides whether to show the game to anyone else on launch day.
The studio
PB& Games is one person.
Paul Booth. Founded in 2026, no office, no roadmap deck. The name is a sandwich joke. Paul Booth &, and whatever the studio makes next goes in the blank. The logo has a bite taken out of it every time the game boots.
Design, code, balance, audio pipeline, store pages and this website: one pair of hands, built in Godot, shipped in public with playtesters reading over its shoulder.
Est. 2026 · One person · Godot · Windows, macOS, Linux