Recesses

$4.99

Release Date:: Aug 23, 2024
Developer:: Sanjuny
Publisher:: Sanjuny
Platforms:: Windows

Strategy Indie Steam Achievements Family Sharing Single-player

About This Game

Recesses is a single-player card game adventure where every day's outdoor break from elementary school is a new battle. Your best friend went missing, and now it's up to you to defeat all the weirdo kids she played Battaliens with at recess to find out what happened to her.

In this game, losing is good! You get to see new dialogue, try new strategies, and win or lose, you always get another booster pack of cards to strengthen your collection.

Making it all the way from Monday to the boss of the playground on Friday is no easy task, but each day's victory brings you closer to the truth. Although it may not be what you expected.

Features:

Over 30 original music tracks by CoZyro and Kasey Ozymy (Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass) that will make you go, "Wow! The music in this game has no right to be that good."
Graphics that only look like they were drawn by a fifth grader. A grown up did draw them and he tried really hard.
100 cards with unique abilities, art, combos, and flavor text.
Over 110,000 words of dialogue with multiple scenarios depending on your win/loss record.
More than 13 different elementary school opponents with their own strategies, theme songs, and surprisingly philosophical monologues.
At least 8 bird puns of varying quality.
And 1 goat.

Recent reviews/comments:

"Best RPG Deckbuilder I've seen in a while. Mechanically this game is what the Pokemon TCG should have been." (VLPN)
"This game's a lot deeper than it looks on the surface, honestly I came for the cutesy card battling and have been amazed by the quality of the writing. Now I can't stop playing it just because I want to see more of what the characters have to say." (Ferdy)
"I can't stress this enough; this is one of the most compelling narratives I've seen in YEARS." (supremelordender5705)
"Recesses is the Dark Souls of Card Games." (Dr.Garushi)

Main game playtime is approximately 15-30 hours, with hours of extra post-game challenge content. The Extended Demo is approximately 5-10 hours.

Mouse/Windows OS required for gameplay. Recesses has not been tested to play with controllers, Steam Deck, or other operating systems or hardware.

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User Reviews

Overwhelmingly Positive

2 user reviews

100%

Positive

User #338898 english

2 hrs at review

Recommended

Incredibly deep.

User #629987 english

8 hrs at review

Recommended

Highly recommend! This game has WILD card synergies that you can't find anywhere else. Also why are all these kids so wise?! You're literally card battling against shaman children - recesses when I was a kid were more about shoving each other down a hill and dog piling the teacher who tried to stop us. Also I would never give a fresh uncracked pack of cards to someone who won the battle against my deck but this game showed me a m ore beautiful way of being. 10/10