Aita: The Dark Domain

Aita: The Dark Domain is a roguelite card game set in the Etruscan underworld. Play solo or with up to three friends as Haruspices, ritual priests sent below the earth to seal the dead back inside Aita.

Every card is both an attack and a choice. Spend your strongest cards too early and you may not survive the counterattack. Hold back too long and the underworld will grind you down.

Four suits. Four sacred rites.

Each suit has a different power:

• Clubs - The Hammer: double your damage.

• Spades - The Mirror: shield against enemy attacks.

• Hearts - The Libation: return spent cards to your deck.

• Diamonds - The Augury: draw deeper into your hand.

Bosses are immune to their own suit, so every fight asks a different question: do you chase damage, rebuild your deck, defend for later, or risk a draw when the next attack is coming?

Build around Blessings.

Blessings change the rules in your favor, pushing you toward different styles of play:

• Hammer builds that turn Clubs into brutal killing blows.

• Augur builds that manipulate draws and shape the deck.

• Shield-Bearer builds that survive attacks other players cannot.

• Haruspex, Beastmaster, Merchant, Haggler, and Uprising builds with their own strange advantages.

There are over 100 Blessings to unlock, collect, and master. Winning with a Blessing as your starter marks it as mastered, giving long-term goals beyond a single clear.

Survive the descent.

Each run sends you through three acts of underworld enemies, with act modifiers that warp the rules of combat.

One act might punish long fights. Another might rot the suits you rely on. Between acts, the campfire gives you a chance to prepare:

• Buy new Blessings.

• Trade cards to reshape your hand.

• Risk random events.

Face the Heralds.

Survive the three acts and the Herald Gauntlet begins. Each Herald has their own combat rules and suit affinity.

Defeat them, and Aita rises.

Play alone or together.

Aita supports solo play and 1-4 player co-op. In co-op, every player brings their own hand, Blessing choices, and risks to the table. You share the same descent, but every turn belongs to one player, so timing and coordination matter.

Features

• Solo and 1-4 player co-op.

• Four suit powers with clear tactical roles.

• Over 100 Blessings, including cursed variants.

• Act affixes that change the rules of each run.

• Campfire shops, card trading, and random events that allow you to grow your power as you descend.

• A finale followed by Aita, the god of death, who inherits defeated Herald powers.