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Keep The Heroes Out

Keep The Heroes Out

YarnCat Games · Bitten Toast Games · 9 Dec 2025 · Nintendo Switch
Steam reviews58% positive51 reviews · Mixed
Store
Nintendo eShop
Platform
Nintendo Switch
Release date
9 Dec 2025
Developer
YarnCat Games
Publisher
Bitten Toast Games
Players
4+
Rating
E10
Ways to play
Cross-platform play, Meet up and play together, Online co-op, Play together on one console
Play modes
TV mode, Tabletop mode, Handheld mode
Availability
Available now

An asymmetric, cooperative dungeon defense game where you play as monsters protecting their hard-earned treasures against invading “heroes” trying to steal it.

Monsters may die, which is tragic, but you can always bring them back to the dungeon! So you are never eliminated from the game, however, treasure gone, is gone forever.

Each player chooses one of the monsters to play. All monsters have their own special abilities, a different amount of creatures and their unique starting deck of cards. The game supports local and online co-op!

In your turn, use your cards one at a time to perform actions. The order of the icons on a card is not mandatory, and you may split actions between multiple monsters you have in play. At the end of your turn, refill your hand back to five cards.

As the game progresses, you will be able to craft loot cards and improve your deck.

Players take turns controlling their monsters on the dungeon. Each monster has a different role to play, some are crowd-control, others can be defensive or supporters, figuring out these combinations and solving an evolving puzzle together can be a lot of fun.

After a player finishes their turn, heroes will invade our dungeon and attack us! Monsters may die, which is tragic, but you can always bring them back to the dungeon! So you are never eliminated from the game, however, a treasure stolen, is gone forever.

If at any point of the game we lose our vault's hoard, the game ends in defeat, but if we manage to protect our treasures for long enough, we all win.

Each of the levels has a different dungeon layout along with special rules & cards to spice things up! From introductory scenarios where Olga the witch needs frogs to make potions, to more wild ones like the battle of the bands.

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