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Chrono Ark Guide

2024-05-02 Al Fine Al Fine

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Build an RPG party and a card-game deck at the same time. These essentials focus on facts explicitly stated in the official Steam store description.

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What is Chrono Ark?

A single-player game combining RPGs, card games, and roguelikes. In a world covered by the Black Fog, join protagonist Lucy in searching for Time Shades to activate the Clock Tower. Recruit a party of up to four and use their skills as cards, developing your RPG party and card deck together. A party wipe resets your progress, changing the companions you can recruit and the skills you obtain, so each run produces a different team. Official information lists 20 companions. The Japanese source recorded over 13,000 Steam reviews and a Very Positive rating. Japanese is supported.

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🏆 13,700 reviews · Very Positive (source: August 2026)

Very Positive

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13,700 reviews (August 2026)

2024/5/2

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Party of up to four

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Japanese
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Al Fine

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「Build an RPG party and a card-game deck at the same time」 — Based on the official Steam store description and review record

🔑 Key points

1. Build a party of up to four

Recruit companions to form your party. Who you choose determines your deck's character: this combination of RPGs and card games is the game's core.

2. Skills become cards

Use party members' skills and protagonist Lucy's skills as cards. You choose which skills they learn.

3. A party wipe resets your progress

According to the official description, a wipe resets everything, changing the companions you can recruit and skills you obtain. It also explicitly says there is no need to fear a party wipe.

4. 20 companions

Official information lists 20 companions. The range of combinations makes repeated runs interesting.

5. Develop a strategy across runs

Learning skills, items, relics, events, and boss patterns helps you develop a strategy of your own.

📚 Sources and information not covered

This page contains only facts explicitly stated in the official Steam store description. Evaluations such as individual character tier lists, strongest builds, and item stats will be added only when reliable sources are available, to avoid misinformation from speculation:

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Chrono Ark FAQ

Q1 What kind of game is Chrono Ark? ▼

A single-player game combining RPGs, card games, and roguelikes. Recruit a party of up to four and fight using their skills as cards. Official information lists 20 companions. Developed and published by Al Fine, it left Early Access on May 2, 2024. Japanese is supported.

Q2 What happens if the party is wiped out? ▼

Everything resets, and the companions you can recruit and skills you obtain change. The official description also says there is no need to fear a party wipe: repeated attempts are part of the design.

Q3 How should I build a party? ▼

You can bring up to four members, and your choices determine your deck's character. Since skills become cards, building your party also means building your deck. This page does not recommend specific team compositions.

Q4 How does it differ from Slay the Spire? ▼

You build a party. Instead of making a deck for one character, you use the skills of up to four companions as cards. This adds the appeal of RPG party building.

Q5 What games are similar? ▼

Among games covered on this site, the deckbuilding staple Slay the Spire, party-based Darkest Dungeon, and negotiation-and-combat game Griftlands offer related experiences.

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