Mini Rogue Depths of Damnation
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Roll the dice. The room is revealed. Read the Lore card. Choose. The dungeon tells you a different story every time, and in the end, you understand: you aren't exploring just any place. You are discovering why it is cursed.
WHAT IT IS
The expansion that turns a pocket dungeon crawler into a story that haunts you
Depths of Damnation is the narrative expansion for Mini Rogue, designed by Paolo Di Stefano and Gabriel Gendron (who also created the illustrations). Published in 2021 by Nuts! Publishing, it adds 33 cards to the base game: 22 are Lore Cards, a new type of card that weaves narrative choices into the dungeon's progression. With 2 new bosses, 3 unique characters, and 6 additional rooms, the expansion turns every descent into a unique narrative.
At the table, you draw a Lore Card and find yourself at a crossroads: save a prisoner or leave them to their fate, follow a voice in the dark or ignore it, trust an ancient inscription or destroy it. Every choice has immediate consequences (health, gold, items) and narrative ones: game after game, the dungeon stops being a random maze and becomes a place with a history, with layered curses and secrets that reveal themselves only if you take the right path. The push-your-luck dice mechanics remain, but now every roll has a narrative weight in addition to a tactical one.
What they say abroad
"The Depths of Damnation is a 33 card full scale expansion that features a new card type: Lore Cards."
— Nuts! Publishing
Mini Rogue: Depths of Damnation
Mini Rogue was born as a solitaire game: Depths of Damnation enhances exactly that mode. The Lore Cards work perfectly in solo mode because the choice system is designed for personal narrative progression, not for interaction between players. The experience is complete, and actually better: the 2-player cooperative mode exists but loses the tension of the solitary choice.
FrogScore · FroGames editorial rating · based on the rulebook, international reviews, and gaming sessionsWhat you add to the dungeon
33 cards that rewrite Mini Rogue
22 Lore Cards
The heart of the expansion. You draw a Lore card during exploration and find yourself at a narrative crossroads: save or abandon, trust or destroy. Every choice has immediate consequences (gold, health, items) and narrative ones (you discover pieces of the dungeon's history). They are interwoven: what you choose in one card changes what you read in subsequent ones.
2 New Bosses
Two alternative endings for your descents. Each has unique mechanics, requires different tactics, and concludes the game with a battle that calls back to the narrative choices you made along the way. Harder than the base bosses, but more satisfying if you win.
3 New Characters
Three original heroes with special abilities that change the way you face the dungeon. One is more resistant but slow, one manipulates dice better, and one is fragile but starts with powerful items. Each one changes the risk curve of the push-your-luck mechanics.
6 New Rooms
Six additional locations that are shuffled into the base dungeon deck. Some are traps, others are opportunities; all increase the variety of the descent and connect to the Lore Cards. The dungeon becomes deeper, more varied, and more unpredictable.
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Come si gioca
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THE SECRET OF THE CRYPT
Depths of Damnation expands the Mini Rogue universe by introducing a choose-your-own-adventure mechanic using Lore cards. This system isn't just decorative: it offers players the opportunity to explore the dungeon's story and earn rewards (or curses) based on their choices. With seven new rooms, new monsters, and items, replayability skyrockets while maintaining the minimalist elegance of the base game.
NARRATIVE STRATEGY
Lore cards introduce crossroads choices that permanently change the state of the current game.
COMBINED EFFECTS
The new items and abilities interact explosively with the mechanics of the base game.
ROGUELIKE DEPTH
Exponentially increases the variables of each plan, reducing repetitiveness.
GAME FLOW
It retains the speed and immediacy of the original system, adding depth without heaviness.
BALANCE
New monsters designed to counter standard strategies, forcing you to adapt.
CRITICAL DECISIONS
Do you risk it all for a legendary artifact or play it safe to survive the next boss?
FACE THE ABYSS. SURVIVE THE LEGEND.
Mini Rogue Depths of Damnation
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