Underdogs

The giants are real. So is the sling.

UNDERDOGS is a single-player collectible card game in the Hearthstone mold — snappy turns, a living board, packs that are a joy to crack — where every card is drawn from the strangest, most dramatic story collection ever written. You field shepherds, prophets, priests, and far-too-small warriors. The AI fields Goliath, Pharaoh, Jezebel, and the Serpent.

You will be outnumbered. That's the point.

✦ FREE FOREVER. ACTUALLY.

No ads. No in-app purchases. No energy timers. Money never enters this game — every card is earned by playing. Packs, crafting, daily quests: the whole collection is yours for the cost of showing up.

🃏 WHAT'S IN THE BOX

— 182 collectible cards across six classes — Prophet, Warrior, Priest, Shepherd, Patriarch, Disciple — plus a shared pool of neutrals
— Fulfill, the signature mechanic: legendary heroes enter in their early-story form with a visible condition. Slay a giant with the shepherd boy and he becomes the King. Survive the storm with Simon and he becomes Peter. You don't read the arc — you enact it
— A story campaign, from a valley in Elah on up
— The Sparring Pit: free play against four AI difficulties, up to a "Sage" that thinks a full turn ahead — and yours
— The Storehouse: earn Talents by playing, then crack packs in a full opening ritual — the pack falls from a ray of light, you break the wax seal, it bursts open, and the cards reveal one by one, worst to best. The last flip is always the big one
— Duplicate protection, pity timers, and crafting: a bad-luck streak never blocks the deck you want. Dupes shatter into Fragments; Fragments buy any card, guaranteed
— Forge your own 30-card war-bands from the cards you own

🕹 HOW TO PLAY

Mouse or touch. Drag cards to the board, drag units onto enemies to attack, press-hold anything to learn what it does. On a phone, turn it sideways — the game is landscape-only, like the table it's played on. Everything saves locally in your browser; no account, no sign-in, works offline after first load. Best in fullscreen with the sound on.

📖 THE TONE (read this if you're wary of "Christian games")

We're tired of tacky too. Hard rules: the humor only ever ribs the humans — Peter for sinking, Jonah for sulking — never the holy. No gore; the fallen dissolve into light. The villains are real opponents you can never play. And some things are never cards at all. No sermons either — the game teaches the story through its mechanics, and passage references are just references.

If you love Hearthstone, Runeterra, or Magic and you know who Jael is (or want to find out the hard way), this was made for you.

🚧 IN DEVELOPMENT

This is an early, fully playable build (v0.4.1). The engine, six classes, the collection economy, and the opening campaign chapters are live. Still to come: more campaign, the Scroll Study reading loop, more card sets, an iOS app. Card art is AI-generated under human art direction; all design, rules, and code are handmade.

Giants sold separately.