Retromine
Retromine is an ultra-satisfying, highly replayable, tough-as-nails deckbuilding roguelike. Delve into the caves, mine resources, and escape before the caverns collapse! Spend ore to buy new cards, upgrade your deck, and discover powerful synergies on your way to the bottom of the world.
Disclaimer: This game is in development. All content is subject to change or removal. This game will no longer be free after release.
The full version of Retromine will be available on Steam:
Retromine is a super challenging game - if you manage to win, post a screenshot of your victory in the comments!
- Gameplay -
- Roguelike deckbuilding: Delve into the mines, play cards to mine resources, and escape with your life - then use those resources to buy new cards, upgrade your deck, and power up!
- Strike a perfect balance: Survive by mining scorium to narrowly escape danger, get stronger by mining ore to buy new cards
- Discover powerful synergies: Unearth super-powered synergies and exploit game breaking combos
- Test your mettle: Challenge yourself and put your decision making and problem solving abilities to the test
- Enter flow state: Unwind with an experience expressly created to place you in a state of meditative deep focus
- Features -
- Dig your way to mastery: Collect over 50 unique resource, tool, and action cards to use on your expeditions.
- Shape your run: Harness the power of over 10 unique utility cards to change the way you play
- Immerse yourself: Tunnel through a curious subterranean fantasy beneath a classic retro-pixel aesthetic
- Dreamy, hypnotic synthwave: Relax with over 40 minutes of soothing synthwave music by Airglow
- Dig, Die, Learn, Repeat! -
Enjoy infinite procedurally generated content in a game specifically designed for endless replayability.
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Development log
- The Future of Retromine10 days ago
- Rare Cards, New Synergies, & More New Cards Than Ever! Demo v3.0!45 days ago
- Power Cards, Booster Packs, New Cards, Quality of Life! Demo v2!Jan 29, 2026
- 100,000 Players - Thank you!Jan 07, 2026
- Demo v1.5 Patch Notes - Balance PatchDec 09, 2025
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So many synergies I could play my whole deck almost every turn
Had a great run with a lot of draw, 0 cost cards, and Katzite. Was lucky enough to get the Bubblite too!
How do you play Nightmare difficulty? (EDIT: type "nightmare" on the choose difficulty popup.)
Such a fun and challenging game!
it'd be really great if you were able to make it available for other types of OS once the full game is out because I don't have windows and i love this demo and want to buy and play the full game
i don't plan on that for release day, but if the game does well i would be interested in porting - so we will see!
glad to hear it! i'll be waiting for the mac port *fingers crossed*
first completed run on new update:
I actually love this game
this is my best run yet, draw crystals + axe + crusher + mole + torch is so much draw that I can have a 30 card deck and still play all of it in 1 turn
Cube
you are seriously pushing the boundaries of this game!! thanks for your continued support <3
That's so sweet of you to say
also sledgehammer carry early
Sledgehammer is craaaaazy !!
Retromine has given hamIkl a Sledgehammer. hamIkl... is... free!
got the first 200 scorium for the core in the first turn, ended up having an extra turn after i was done :D sledgehammer really is cracked
Welp, I don't even know how high this run could've gone. I wouldn't be surprised if it would hit 500k or smth. I was already over 100k by expedition 9. Sadly the game isn't designed for having 600+ cards on screen at once. I'd love if this game got a performance update for these really high scoring late game runs, maybe something to stack/compress like entities, or to not show or animate played cards. I turned off card movement, but this didn't impact played cards. I took a few screenshots as I had a feeling it would crash. (2 images below)
shop after expedition 9 with ~90k to spend lmao
moments before disaster, my first turn I didn't draw anything good, this turn I was still drawing my cards before I could start generating value... already at 25k
The previous version crashed for me way before this many cards so there has been a big improvement :0 congrats on getting so many cards in one run.
At last I did it! Thanks for the game!
"Big Deck" very much powered up by Greedy Mole.
I don't think this game was designed to have 150+ cards on screen, my computer was frying itself a little. Also the ore being capped at 999 really limited my score near the end, think I would've got my moonstones to ~2-3k. Also found out energy is capped at 99.
Great game: 10/10
Nice thats the second biggest run iv seen the only only higher is my run i posted on the discord (called it over the moon ) doing similar stuff
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Nice, so close to the big 100k. Just had a run at 70k with 2 turns left, but it crashed the game. RIP
this is insane
The Sledgehammer is waaaaay too strong in the current iteration.
I'd suggest changing the boost to be per Mineral played, that way it still synergizes strongly with 0-cost Minerals, but isn't just a free win for any build.
for sure, sledgehammer will definitely be brought in line with the rest of the cards in the next update, but you can enjoy it as is for now :D
still loving this game! I will say that tools feel very consistent - they combo well and take advantage of expensive but valuable gems in the shop (e.g. cubite). Just finished a great brutal run with 2 wrenches, a hammer and a badger
thanks for playing, and ty for the feedback!
glad you are enjoying the game :D
when bubblite upgraded, moonstone did not :(
that is a bug, and will be fixed in the next update!
Good game! Played my whole deck in a single turn in brutal difficulty lol (using action cards).
It's fun how many resources you can make when you got the right cards and your deck starts running like a well oiled machine.
GG NOW TRYING BRUTAL
Really fun game. And im not usually into rougelikes. Now gonna try beating it on harder difficulties!!
The greedy mole is op (in a good way). I've gotten nearly 7000 ore this run.
Really cool game!
What I don't understand: What is "for each 5 size ?
the size of the recourse. If u have 20 sized ore, then that means it will do that actions 4 times.
My little victory. The game is great. I will try it on higher difficulty !
I love this. I can not win, but god am i trying
Great game! I loved it!
I've finally finished a Brutal run, but I crave more! I'd love it if anyone could tell me how to unlock nightmare mode. Thanks! :D
on level-select screen, type: nightmare
Thank you!
(At first I thought I had to choose type nightmare, not type nightmare, lol.)
Lovely game
Great Game!
WOOT!!!!
PLEASE add a Mac version for the full release I will buy it!!! This game is awesome
Woohoo first try! Took me a minute to realize what the draw cards icon meant... But I had fun! Might benefit from card tags? Hard to tell what counts as an action vs a tool sometimes. (Maybe even a compendium?) Now onto brutal difficulty!
(P.S. Please make an android port!)
I am just now noticing the grey text at the bottom that says the type 😞
New Retromine content is awesome! My favourite short break game has gotten even better. I did run into a weird bug today:
It wouldn't let me play my 7 value Quartz ore card as the first card of this round, espite having the normal three energy. It did work after I played a different card (float scorite), but weird all the same. The card wasn't red all the time just showing that I was trying to click on it to play, and it wasn't letting me.
thanks for reporting. please let me know if you can replicate this bug somehow!
I ran into the same issue - couldn't play Quartz first, played other resources, then I was allowed to play the Quartz
I was 4 score away from winning the first try in normal difficulty...
(Not a criticism, just sharing my plight)