A deck from the city
Cards are memories, not monsters. Every location you cleanse adds its own small, strange card to your pool.
NEON SHRINE
Urban fantasy card RPG · In development
Neon Shrine
Neon Shrine is a card RPG about the shrines hidden inside Tokyo's crossings, and the spirits who now run them like small businesses. You are the ward's newest contractor.
Build a deck out of the city's memories: a train announcement that stops time, a vending machine that grants one wish, a convenience-store receipt that lists your future. Coming to iOS and Android in 2026.
Join the closed testMeet the contractors
Three people keeping one ward lit until morning.
Mio
Street idol by day, fox spirit by night, and the only contractor who treats a haunting like a gig. Her ward has the best merch in the city.
Kuro
Quiet, silver-haired, and employed by a shrine that does not officially exist. Hands out talismans like business cards.
Hina
Shrine maiden with a modern streak: ritual bell in one hand, live-ops dashboard on the phone in the other. She files the paperwork when a spirit breaks contract.
Core gameplay
Cards are memories. The city is the deck.
Ward contract
Each season you sign with one shrine. It pays, it demands, and it decides which cards your deck can hold.
Night clock
Fights run from dusk to dawn. The later it gets, the stronger your cards get — and the worse the ward holds.
Planned seasons
What the closed test is playing through now.
From the closed test
Notes from the first hundred playtesters.
playtest #14
The deck never felt like a gacha pull. I built a whole run out of train announcements and it worked.
playtest #27
Night clock is the good idea. Every round I chose whether to get stronger or keep the ward up.
playtest #31
The art is doing a lot of work here, in the best way. I want the soundtrack.
playtest #44
I lost a run on purpose to see the bad ending. There is a bad ending. That sold me.
playtest #63
Please keep the vending machine card. That is the whole pitch.
FAQs
When is Neon Shrine out?
2026 for iOS and Android. We will announce a month, then a date, once the closed test is finished — not before.
How do I get into the test?
Sign-ups go to our mailing list first, then to everyone. Write to [email protected] and we will add you.
Is it a sequel to your other games?
No. It shares our art team and nothing else.
Will it be free to play?
Yes, with one paid story chapter per season. No energy timers, no ads.
Which regions launch first?
Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Japan at launch; everywhere else about two months later.