# Short Description

Torn from your world. Trapped in a high-tech bunker. Do whatever it takes to find a way back home. A tactical card roguelite where your profession is your deck.

# Description

## Protectors of Balance - The Beginning

One second you are living your normal life — working your shift, writing code, fixing circuits — and the next you materialize inside a cold, sealed bunker. You keep your memory: you know exactly who you are and what you can do. What you do not know is how you got here, who brought you, or why.

The bunker is not an alien invasion site. It is a claustrophobic maze of malfunctioning defense systems and forgotten technological experiments. As you fight your way through the corridors, terminal logs and old signals hint at a deeper truth: you are a Protector, bound to a duty you do not yet fully understand. Beyond the steel doors lies a world where high technology intertwines with magic — but the way home starts with surviving this place.

Protectors of Balance - The Beginning is the first story of the Protectors of Balance series.

## Key Features

- Your profession is your deck: start as a Developer, Nurse, Mechanic, Scientist or Electrician, and turn everyday professional knowledge into combat synergies
- Tactical card combat: combine physical attacks, shield protocols and elemental hazards (fire, lightning, acid), paid for with energy that refills every turn. Enemy intent is always visible
- Cutting is as important as buying: every deck holds exactly one copy of each card, and the shop removes cards as well as adding and upgrading them
- Procedural bunker crawling: explore rooms on a branching node map, salvage resources and find the exit, with one curated encounter waiting there. The layout changes every run, and the end screen shows the map seed so a run can be replayed
- Built in Godot: clean 2D visuals, turn-based combat, fully playable with keyboard or mouse

## Facts

Genre: Tactical card roguelite, deckbuilder
Platforms: Free prototype in the browser (HTML5) on itch.io from 10 November 2026; platforms for the full game not yet announced
Release Date: In active development, no release date announced for the full game
Price: Prototype free; price of the full game not yet announced
Players: Single player
Language: English
Engine: Godot
Developer: Odania GmbH, Germany (studio brand Protectors of Balance)

Website: https://protectors-of-balance.com/games/protectors-of-balance-the-beginning
Prototype (from 10 November 2026): https://protectorsofbalance.itch.io/the-beginning

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