Veilborne

A dark fantasy card game built on curses and how much you're willing to sacrifice.

Veilborne is a strategic card game based on one of my novels.120 cards, 2 players, one endgame mechanic that changes everything when triggered.

Built from scratch, lore, mechanics, card design, French translation, and a working React prototype, all developed independently.

The Veil is the boundary between the living world and the dead. Every card you play pushes you closer to collapse. Every curse you carry is a debt owed to the breach.

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Curse SystemCards accumulate curse stacks that alter their behaviour. A weapon against your opponent or a slow self-destruction.
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Faction SynergyEach faction has a unique resource economy and win condition that reshapes the game's tempo entirely.
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Sacrifice PlaysBurning your own cards to fuel devastating effects. Highest risk. Highest reward.
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Veil CollapseThe endgame mechanic. When the Veil breaks, the rules themselves change — built into every card from the start.

Factions

⚔ The Ashwalkers

Survivors of a burned empire. They weaponize ruin and the more they lose, the more dangerous they become.

Aggro

☽ The Veiled

Sorcerers, dark spirits and black magic creatures, only out to gain as much power as possible.

Control

⛓ The Bound

Cursed souls from the breach who have learned to weaponize their own suffering. Pain is their resource.

Sacrifice

✦ The Skinbags

Humans, animals, witnesses, kings or knights, all are overpowered and only valuable in suffering.

Cloning and Double Cross tactics