Infinite Cards

Infinite Cards is a roguelike deckbuilder built around a single unusual premise: every card in the game is procedurally generated rather than hand-designed, drawn from a defined rule set that the developer describes as creating "an endless number of possible cards to discover." Players pick a commander, build a deck across a run through combat and puzzle encounters, and gradually unlock both new commanders and a permanent meta-collection layered on top of individual runs. It's developed and published solo by Tubby Turtle Studios, released 27 March 2026 at $15.99. This review draws on the 30 most recent of the game's 103 lifetime reviews, 97 of them positive, for a "Very Positive" overall rating.

A genuine power fantasy for former Magic players

The clearest throughline in this review's sample is how often reviewers reach for the same specific comparison. One called Infinite Cards "the Magic: the Gathering PvE game I've been looking for my entire life," while another, more measured reviewer placed it more precisely as "a mix of Slay the Spire and Mtg Commander, with less complexity than true Mtg Commander. Unique and a good mix." A third reviewer, a self-described "disenfranchised former M:tG player," wrote that the game "hits all the right spots in my brain" after searching for something to scratch that same deckbuilding itch. This review found that specificity meaningful — these aren't generic "fun card game" endorsements, but reviewers actively placing Infinite Cards against genre benchmarks they know well and finding it holds up.

Several reviewers went further, crediting the game's opponent design as a deliberate strength rather than an accident. One explained that because enemy decks are visible and predictable, "opponents follow a clearly defined loop pattern so you are less likely to experience top decking shenanigans from CPU opponents that we normally see in other PVE deckbuilding games" — trading player-side surprise for a system that never plays dumb, which this review reads as a genuinely considered design tradeoff rather than a limitation.

Real depth beyond the first few runs

This review's sample is also specific about how the game holds up over dozens of hours, not just the first one. One reviewer laid out the meta-progression precisely: beyond individual runs, "there is a 'meta' boss you can fight, and every time you complete a normal run you get to keep a single card from your deck to put into your meta deck. You need to beat the game 20 times before you can even try it." This review checked that claim against the game's own achievement data and found real support for it — of 80 tracked achievements, the most common sits at 73.1% global unlock, while the rarest bottoms out at just 0.2%, a steep curve consistent with content genuinely gated behind a long series of completed runs rather than a single playthrough. Reviewers with logged playtimes in the tens of hours, several past 40 or 50, back this up directly: one wrote they were "almost 50 hours in it, and I still want to play to complete all puzzles, all runs in all difficulties."

The AI art question, named specifically and repeatedly

What sets this review's sample apart from most is how openly and specifically reviewers discuss the game's card art, which the developer's own store page AI Generated Content Disclosure confirms is partly AI-generated: "some visual assets in Infinite Cards were created with the help of AI-assisted tools," selected and edited by the solo developer to fit the game's style. This review found the sample's reaction to that disclosure unusually direct rather than avoidant. Several reviewers frame their entire recommendation around tolerating it explicitly, with one writing "easy recommend if you can overlook the AI art," and another admitting flatly, "the art is obviously AI and I turned the music off within 45 minutes," before still recommending the game on the strength of its deckbuilding. A more critical reviewer who ultimately did not recommend the game listed "jarring AI art alongside basic UI elements" as one of several off-putting design choices contributing to their decision. This review treats that pattern — widespread, specific naming of AI art as a real friction point, sitting alongside broad willingness to look past it for gameplay reasons — as a meaningfully different situation from a game that hides or downplays AI use, and scores accessibility accordingly lower to reflect how much this specific issue matters to a portion of the potential audience.

A developer still actively building the game

This review checked the game's partner-events feed directly, since the size and consistency of the review sample made it worth verifying whether that momentum has continued. It has: 11 posts run from a demo announcement and the 27 March 2026 launch post through a "GIANT UPDATE" in May 2026, several rounds of numbered patch notes through June, and an "Upcoming Update: Modifiers!" post as recently as early September 2026 — nearly six months of continuous, active support rather than a launch-week burst followed by silence. That pattern lines up with in-sample requests for more customization and card-forging control, several of which read like exactly the kind of feedback an actively updating solo developer would be positioned to act on.

Real friction beyond the art

Beyond the AI art discussion, this review's sample raises a consistent set of secondary complaints. Individual runs are long — one reviewer measured them at "2.5 hours each" — and several reviewers want more direct control over deck construction rather than relying entirely on randomized card generation, with one Simplified Chinese-language reviewer specifically requesting a "choose 1 of several generated options" system instead of pure randomness during forging. A handful of reviewers flagged UI performance issues, particularly lag while filtering cards, and one argued the $15.99 price "should be more like $10" given those rough edges. And more than one reviewer was upfront that the game has essentially no narrative framing at all, with procedurally generated card names like "Human," "Beast," and "Spell" doing little to build atmosphere.

Verdict

Infinite Cards earns its "Very Positive" rating honestly: this review's sample consistently credits genuine, checkable depth — a meta-progression system this review's own achievement data confirms is a real long-term grind, a well-considered AI opponent, and a developer who has kept shipping substantial content for nearly six months since launch. But the game's use of AI-generated card art is not a minor footnote here; it's the single most repeatedly named friction point in this review's own sample, discussed specifically and by name far more often than on other AI-touched titles this review has covered, even by reviewers who ultimately recommend the game anyway. At $15.99, this is an easy recommendation for deckbuilder fans who can make peace with that tradeoff, and a game worth skipping for anyone who can't.