EB-001 · Release · Q2 2027

Animus:
Frontier.

A tactical mech roguelike deckbuilder. Pilot-owned cards, telegraphed enemy intent, energy you spend, heat you can't ignore. Solve the board, survive the run, sharpen the build. Into the Breach × Slay the Spire, one decisive turn at a time.

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Animus: Frontier — main menu concept art showing a mech silhouette over a horizon. EB-001 · FRONTIER · v0.1 SLICE
Genre
Tactical roguelike deckbuilder
Setting
The Animus universe · Mech-scale combat
Platforms
Steam · TBD
Players
1 · Single-Player
Engine
Godot 4 · C# (.NET 8)
Release
Q2 2027 · Planned
SIGNAL · INBOUND
Gameplay capture lands when the slice is ready to show. The devlog will say so first.
How it plays

One squad. One hand.
Every turn a puzzle.

01 / PILLAR

Cards belong to pilots

Your hand is drawn from a shared pool, but every card is signed. Field your squad and you field their habits — friction is the feature.

02 / PILLAR

Energy limits the squad

One pool. Every mech draws from it. Spend it on attacks, movement, dodges, or shields — but it's gone when it's gone. Cards that generate energy are how you escalate.

03 / PILLAR

Heat limits the mech

Each chassis vents a fixed amount of heat per turn — some actions add more. Cross the safe line and the mech redlines: it keeps fighting, but pays for it in internal damage. Push past that and it shuts down — you lose your next turn and your dodge.

04 / PILLAR

Enemy intent is visible

Enemies commit before they strike — tell this turn, fire next. Every telegraph shows the shape of the move: its action, its weapon, the rough range, the tiles it threatens. Exact target and damage can stay hidden, so reading intent is a skill, not a handout.

05 / PILLAR

Builds escalate

Equipment generates cards. Artifacts bend the rules. Pilots level into signature plays. Every run gets stranger and louder until something cracks — usually the boss, sometimes you.

06 / PILLAR

One canon, one Animus

Frontier is the mech-scale edge of the Animus universe. The same psychic field that warps empires in Convergence warps the people piloting these mechs. Same world, cockpit height.

Concept · pre-alpha

First light on the grid.

What's below is the in-engine UI mockup pass — design system applied, real components, real layout. Final art will replace these as the slice fills out. The bones are honest.

Animus: Frontier — in-combat view, a hand of cards over the tactical grid. SHOT 01 · IN COMBAT
Run-map / next-mission selection screen. SHOT 02 · RUN MAP
Main menu concept. SHOT 03 · MAIN MENU
Fast scout mech concept — glass orb body, long nimble legs, four arms.
CHASSIS 01 · SCOUT CLASS

The scout.

Glass-orb body, four arms, evades for a living. Shield-reliant, light armor — fragile until it isn't.

Tank mech concept — area control, push-and-burn.
CHASSIS 02 · TANK CLASS

The hammer.

Pushes, pulls, denies ground. Slow and armored, it fights for space — the best turn ends with two enemies slammed together.

Release planned Q2 2027.

Frontier follows Convergence — same universe, mech-scale. Progress lands on the devlog first: design notes, slice milestones, honest captures.

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