
Shroom and Gloom
A downloadable deckbuilder for Windows and macOS
Shroom and Gloom is a first-person, roguelike deckbuilder that brings you mobs of monstrous mushrooms and mountains of mega-combos!
Grab your cards to hack, slash and roast your way through hand drawn dungeons of fungal foes! Build devastating decks, and grow cards into massive abominations as you fight your way into the heart of The Gloom!
Double-decker Deckbuilding!
Build 2 distinct decks! Use the combat deck to survive fierce battles! Use the explore deck to navigate dungeons, modify your cards, or unlock new weapons and abilities!
Eye-ball melting art!
Hand-drawn art and animations collide with rich 3D spaces, bringing you into a surreal world of mushrooms and madness!
Infinite growth and monstrous mega-combos!
Shroom and Gloom offers unique ways for players to grow and modify their cards infinitely. Grow low level starting cards into over-powered attacks, or modify rare cards into game-breaking super-weapons!
Less blocking, more eating!
Why block your enemies when you could eat them instead! Shroom and Gloom features a bounty of ways for you to season, skewer or roast your foes, then eat them to restore lost health. Better yet, throw your roasted enemies into a pot, and cook up some game-changing soups!
This is an early prototype, exploring the potential for Shroom and Gloom to be a full game!
Our dream version of this game features hundreds of cards, deep metaprogression and scores of unique enemies, spread across a dense network of caves and tunnels to explore! This prototype offers a taste of what that experience could be.
We've shot for the stars with what we tried to cram into this prototype over 3 months of development, and we're really proud of what we pulled off. That said, please note that this is a prototype. Expect rough edges and some jank. Keep in mind this is all a work in progress.
We're trying to maintain a list of known bugs, jank and issues. Please check it out before reporting any problems you may encounter while playing the prototype. Please report issues via our Discord if you're inclined to join us there.
Check out our FAQs if you have any questions!
We desperately want to create a full Shroom and Gloom game, and we want you to be part of that quest!
If you like what we're doing, here's how you can help!
* Download this prototype, murder some mushrooms, leave us a comment.
* Share the prototype with other awesome people!
* Come hang out with us on the Team Lazerbeam Discord!
* Join the Team Lazerbeam mailer!
* Spread the Shroomy gospel far and wide!
Our eternal thanks to Free Lives for funding the development of this prototype.
Thank you to the Free Lives and Team Lazerbeam Discord communities for their enthusiasm and support! And most of all, thank you for playing!
Updated | 10 days ago |
Status | Prototype |
Platforms | Windows, macOS |
Rating | Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars (229 total ratings) |
Author | Team Lazerbeam |
Genre | Card Game |
Tags | Atmospheric, Deck Building, Dungeon Crawler, Fantasy, First-Person, Hand-drawn, Roguelike, Surreal, Turn-based |
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Development log
- Our game's going viral! Shroom and Gloom Dev Log - Apr 202511 days ago
- It's all happening! Shroom and gloom Devlog Mar 2025.44 days ago
- Shroom and Gloom Mega UpdatesJan 28, 2025
- Will Shroom and Gloom Live Or Die? Our Monster Halloween Update!Oct 31, 2024
- We did it! Shroom and Gloom Prototype is here!Sep 13, 2024
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I Started doing challenges like this one where i upgrade the worst card to use it to beat the final boss
this is really unique. im usually not a fan of these type of rougelikes but for some reason i like the combat. a few rapid fire ideas i have are as follow
1. make it to where not all cards have to be dragged to be used
2. because all you do is move forwards backwards and left click stuff i would embrace it and instead of using W and S keys i would remap it to the scroll wheel and make the end turn button be the right click.
3. my computer is not the best and the game was a little choppy in its frame rate and for some weird reason it added to the atmosphere on the game.
This game has a lot of potential, but I would recommend adding some sort of limit to upgrading cards. I was able to with all three of my runs get a setup very easily that let me go infinite. Don't get me wrong, I love getting infinites in these games (like slay the spire), but its very very easy to just get cost down and draw a card on one attack then spam that. Amazing work thus far and I'm looking forward to a full release!!!
Super fun game with really cute art. I've played one game with the lazarus perk and it didn't seem to activate, I got the usual death screen. I'll keep playing to see if that's consistent
Edit: I think what happened is it did activate but I didn't notice that it happened because the card didn't flash on the screen the way "unstoppable" does
Thanks for playing, and taking the time to leave this comment.
In the current build it's very easy to miss Lazarus triggering. We've added much better death and revival feedback on our side, so this will be much clearer in our next update!
I can't wait to play it! I spent like 6 hours playing yesterday :)
Made a video for my channel. This one is actually staying in my library until I beat it. Great work!
A little trick to gain max HP using FORSIGHT 'GROWING CONFIDENCE' with shop
I'm finding new ways to break the game, the hot poker is busted
this was AMAZING!!! showed it to my friend and they loved it too! It's so addicting and so satisfying when you get a game breaking build. The art style is adorable and reminds me of inscryption / cult of the lamb, love it because the monsters are cute yet still scary.
totally excited for the full game release, maybe there will be a battle against the creepy face at the end of the game (?) cant wait for it to come out on steam!
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Looking forward to playing it. Shared it with others already and they’ve downloaded it too.
I hope it can get an Android Mobile port as it looks to be a great pickup game as well.
With notebook, some shurikens, burning wine (just for a free way to draw cards), I managed to get practically unlimited energy, because notebook can reach negative energy value if you do enough damage.
I'm loving this game.
Awesome game, hope it will be published in steam!
Awesome game, the art and the music are superb.
I discovered this game on an Instagram ad.... it's a prototype, but it's better and more beautiful than AAA games for 60 bucks !!!! Bravo, as soon as this game comes out, I'll buy it !!!! ah, and thanks for this amazing game.
Very laggy on mac air
When played on a stronger PC - extremely fun 10/10
I was drawn into this game because it gave similar vibes to Inscryption, and although the two are very different this blew my expectations out of the water. The way the environment moves around you, how you find yourself exploring the world, even events like the mole merchant are absolutely delightful.
As a card game, it nails on the head everything I want in a game of the genre: the types of decks and synergies feel refreshing to play with, and when you get a proper build going you truly begin to feel it's power. The design that went into each card and the different mechanics seems solid and interesting as well. The idea of even using some cards as currency is an interesting idea as well, posing the question do you sacrifice future health or even loot to purchase things for your deck is something I find enjoyable and new.
The enemy designs are fun too, and I particularly appreciate being able to see the moves they will make as to dictate which would be the best approach. The different types of status effects are fresh as well, and I love the idea that instead of being a set value and decaying after a set number of turns it becomes more potent the longer the status effect will last!
Even as a demo, this felt like a polished game, and I cannot wait to see where you all will take this further! Theres so much potential in this!
Just found it with Instagram.
Honnestly giving me the same feeling as Inscryption (which is a compliment), maybe an inspiration, maybe not.
Your graphic style and 2.5D are majestic !
For "just a demo", it's already more polish than most game ... (Even if sometime i ask myself "how the hell did i win this last fight")
You can count me in your player list!
Sorry for the messy english,
The art is beautiful. The cards are fun to play with. The mole merchant is cute. I'm so glad I can see what the enemy will do so I can plan out a strategic battle. "Do I tank the hits and heal because big guy is about to deal 22 damage or should I hit them a scythe to make the little ones die first." I just went on a crazy run with rage + increase damage cards. I got to the floor 14 boss when I came upon an issue. There were frame skips every second or so. Except only with the background. The cards UI ran smoothly but the enemy animations and walking were skipping frames. I hope I was helpful in addressing that issue because I love the game so far and I hope that there's so much more to this!
Oh and I bet there's room for VR capability the way we look around with the camera. Especially during the death screen.
One of the best roguelike game I ever played! The art is awesome and the features just so amazing! I can't wait for the full version!
This is fantastic. Thank you very much. I love the art direction and mechanics. I'm not sure where the jank ends and the game design begins and I mean that as a huge complement when it comes to a rogue like deck builder. I have to mention the sound design is top notch as well. You really have a good team for this
Thank you very much for this game. I love everything about it.
Will buyers get information, if an update will be published or will the client update automatically?
Im looking forward and wish you the best of luck with your project.
Thanks so much for supporting the project!
We don't automatically add the emails of donators to our mailing list. We figured some people might not appreciate that without consenting (and itch offers no option for that).
We do have a mailing list, and you can sign up to it here:
https://www.teamlazerbeam.com/subscribe
This game is super addictive and fun! Can't wait for there to be more!
Love this game!
For a prototype, it's wonderful, the game is very good, the sound good too
A pleasure to play it on twitch ! Thanks !!
I hope you update the game !!
To be honest im speechless. This is amazing and i pray that it sees the light of Steam. Please do NEVER stop developing this gem, if it was a stock id put my life savings on it.
I am continuously finding myself playing this game. Today i spent the last 5 hours sitting here playing it and find it even more fun everytime i go back in. its artistic style and originality make it something that i find elegant in its own way as well as the different combinations of cards that you can pair together that work in tandem with others. Keep up the good work and i cant wait for the finished product and whatever comes after.
I played your game for this week's "indie horror digest" event on my channel and myself as well as the viewers had a lot of fun! I need more!
goooood
This game RULES, really understands the most fun aspects of deckbuilders and gives you loads of opportunities to feel like a god. The art style works wonderfully, allowing both cute little guys and huge fuck-off monsters. There's a lot of depth to both the combat, and the exploration! I've only done two runs, but they both felt distinct and I'm interested to try even more. If I have one criticism, it's that if your hand gets super-duper full of cards it can be pretty tough to find the ones you want, especially if they're down near the bottom of the screen. The mole shopkeep also seemed a little finicky? Tried to buy something with lockpicks and couldn't figure out how to actually pay him. Besides that, great work all around! Definitely excited to see where the project goes from here!
This is just a prototype!?! really incredible!
It has the HUGE potential. Right now, decks are a little limited, but, I'm sure that will grow as the game does. Gives me the same vibes as the opening portion of Inscryption! Definitely has the potential to be up there with the great deck builders like Slay the Spire! I'll shoot a couple dollars your way to help with future development when I can.
Would love to see a steam release with controller support so I can play on my steam deck!
Haha yeah, cool game. No, im not obsessed. PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEEE MAKE IT ANDROID COMPATIBLE PLEASE!! Cant wait to see this game evolve :D
needs to be on steam yesterday lol amazing game
I bought the deck builder but I didn't get the game :[
i've started playing this last night and only stopped because it was three am - absolutely amazing game, kinda crushing on the creature we see after death ngl (´▽`ʃ♡ƪ)
I can't overstate how much I love this game and this is just an early prototype???
The style and mechanics are absolutely amazing and unique.
Can't wait to keep up with this game and see it grow and one day be an even better and fully fledged game.
Keep up the good work!
Hey! Any plans on releasing in Nintendo Switch?
thanks!
This is so fun to play. I get so addicted playing this even though I died multiple times from my own mistakes.
Wow! As a huge fan of atmospheric Roguelike Deckbuilding games, i am truly impressed with this one. The ambiance and sound design are top notch. Eager to see more of it.
I hope it becomes available on steam