Question and Oath
Begin with a question, a captain, and a reading frame that colors the entire run.
Field Dossier
Oath of Battle: The Crossing
A ritual tactics roguelike where every run becomes a reading, and every reading can become an artifact.
The Record
- Title
- Oath of Battle: The Crossing
- Developer
- adarkfable
- Engine
- LÖVE2D (Lua)
- Platforms
- PC and macOS
- Genre
- Ritual tactics roguelike
- Release
- Early Access 2026
- Price
- TBD
- Website
- oathofbattle.com
- Steam
- Wishlist page
- Discord
- discord.gg/dredwork
- Contact
- press@oathofbattle.com
The Crossing
Oath of Battle: The Crossing is a tactics-first roguelike framed as a tarot reading. Players choose a captain from the Major Arcana, swear an oath, build a formation, and march that spread through omens, events, and replayed battles toward The World.
The game treats tarot as its full grammar rather than its ornament. The cards are the roster, the cosmology, the event language, the archive, and the voice that interprets the run after it ends. Every victory or defeat closes with a stylized reading that can be saved as a keepsake.
The Question
Choose a captain, lay the arcana, and cross a haunted field where combat is replayed consequence and every run ends with Marget's reading of what the cards believe you were truly asking.
What Awaits
- 20 Major Arcana units with distinct combat identities and card faces.
- Formation-based tactical play where positioning, bonds, and omens matter more than reflex.
- Replay combat framed like a ritual verdict rather than a live click-heavy battle.
- Run events, rewards, ceremonies, and endings presented in a unified divinatory style.
- Marget's Table: a refuge space with card games, archive shelves, instruments, and custom room mixes.
- Playable instruments designed for relaxed improvisation with no wrong notes.
- Codex and lore archive built to hold authored fiction and imported story collections.
- Reading keepsakes that carry the same ritual grammar as the battles.
The March
Formation
Lay the spread into slots, choose who stands in front, and author the shape of the fight.
Crossing
Move through map beats, events, rest, rewards, and battles while the run gathers meaning.
Reading
End with an interpretation that can live in the archive or leave the game as an artifact.
The Oath
Tarot as ruleset
The Major Arcana are not visual flavor. They are the units, the names, the factions, the route language, the endings, and the memory of the game world.
Combat as consequence
Battles are replayed so the important choices happen before the first hit: formation, bonds, oaths, conditions, and what you were willing to place at risk.
A refuge inside the game
Marget's Table gives the project a second mood entirely: parlor games, instruments, archive reading, and quieter ways to inhabit the world than war.
The run leaves a keepsake
The final reading is part of the ending ritual, and can be saved as a keepsake that looks like it came from this world.
Scenes & Keepsakes
Additional images, marks, and table records can be provided on request.
About adarkfable
adarkfable makes authored interactive works with strong literary framing, stylized systems, and a taste for the uncanny. Oath of Battle: The Crossing is a tactics game, a reading, and a room you can stay in.