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* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Justified because the card battle system is an abstraction of programs rather than a TCG managed by a company, which means new cards can be created on a whim by programmers.
** When Queen runs into an enemy card that can instantly trash her entire deck, Esper creates a deck restoration card, Rejuvenation, that can be added back to the deck from the trash.
** All the dungeons consist of a long series of increasingly powerful waves, so Esper upgrades Rejuvenation into Reprogram, which allows the user to add new cards to their deck.
** When Queen runs into an enemy card that can instantly trash her entire deck, Esper creates a deck restoration card, Rejuvenation, that can be added back to the deck from the trash.
** All the dungeons consist of a long series of increasingly powerful waves, so Esper upgrades Rejuvenation into Reprogram, which allows the user to add new cards to their deck.
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* MightyGlacier: Queen's Checkmate deck has a fixed size of 16, which is large by the standards of the game and can make it difficult to get the exact cards the player needs. This deck also lacks searching effects that other decks have. However, the deck contains relatively overpowered cards and the large deck size means Queen starts with 16 HP.
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* MightyGlacier: Queen's Checkmate deck has a fixed size of 16, which is large by the standards of the game and can make it difficult to get the exact cards the player needs. This deck also lacks searching effects that other decks have. However, the deck contains relatively overpowered cards compared to other decks and the large deck size means Queen starts with 16 HP.
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* MightyGlacier:
** Offensive enemy cards won't act right away and have to wait for a cooldown, but they tend to be stronger and more durable than the player's cards.
** Queen's Checkmate deck has a fixed size of 16, which is large by the standards of the game and can make it difficult to get the exact cards the player needs. This deck also lacks searching effects that other decks have. However, the deck contains relatively overpowered cards and the large deck size means Queen starts with 16 HP.
** Offensive enemy cards won't act right away and have to wait for a cooldown, but they tend to be stronger and more durable than the player's cards.
** Queen's Checkmate deck has a fixed size of 16, which is large by the standards of the game and can make it difficult to get the exact cards the player needs. This deck also lacks searching effects that other decks have. However, the deck contains relatively overpowered cards and the large deck size means Queen starts with 16 HP.
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* MightyGlacier:
** Offensive enemy cards won't act right away and have to wait for a cooldown, but they tend to be stronger and more durable than the player's cards.
**MightyGlacier: Queen's Checkmate deck has a fixed size of 16, which is large by the standards of the game and can make it difficult to get the exact cards the player needs. This deck also lacks searching effects that other decks have. However, the deck contains relatively overpowered cards and the large deck size means Queen starts with 16 HP.
** Offensive enemy cards won't act right away and have to wait for a cooldown, but they tend to be stronger and more durable than the player's cards.
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* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: Queen's Checkmate deck differs from the others in that she doesn't get the Reprogram card. Instead, this deck uses the King card to load cards in the trash back into the deck, and then gain 1 attack for every card recovered. However, if the King is sent from the field to the trash, the game is lost.
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* LimitBreak: All operators have Ability cards, which can be activated once they execute enough cards. The effects of these cards range from stopping turns from counting down on enemy cards to activating all of one's card effects on the field at once.
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* LimitBreak: All operators have Ability cards, which can be activated once they execute enough cards. The cards.
** Checkmate (Queen) activates all manual effects ofthese the player's cards range from stopping turns from counting down on enemy cards to activating all of one's card effects on the field at once.and doubles any damage dealt.
** Encore (Idol) sends all cards from the field to the hand, and then has the player place cards up to the number of the cards sent to the hand. However, these cards can't be the same as the ones originally on the field.
** Serenity (Aurora) places 5 Serenity Tokens on this card. Whenever the player does something that counts as a turn passing, a token will be removed and the turn isn't counted for other cards and the Turn Draw mechanic.
** [=WorldSeed=] (Esper) doesn't immediately do anything when placed, but when the player places a level 2 or lower card, [=WorldSeed=] transforms into a copy of that card.
** Mountain (Leo) reactivates all cards on the player's field and increases their attack by 1. Exactly once, it targets a card sent to the trash and instead adds that card to the hand.
** Imagination [[spoiler:(Dragoon)]] gives all cards in the player's hand, deck, and field the wildcard suffix, which allows them to count for any archetype.
** Paradox [[spoiler:(Omega)]] selects up to two cards on the field. Any player cards selected are "automated." Any enemy cards selected are delayed by 6 turns.
** Checkmate (Queen) activates all manual effects of
** Encore (Idol) sends all cards from the field to the hand, and then has the player place cards up to the number of the cards sent to the hand. However, these cards can't be the same as the ones originally on the field.
** Serenity (Aurora) places 5 Serenity Tokens on this card. Whenever the player does something that counts as a turn passing, a token will be removed and the turn isn't counted for other cards and the Turn Draw mechanic.
** [=WorldSeed=] (Esper) doesn't immediately do anything when placed, but when the player places a level 2 or lower card, [=WorldSeed=] transforms into a copy of that card.
** Mountain (Leo) reactivates all cards on the player's field and increases their attack by 1. Exactly once, it targets a card sent to the trash and instead adds that card to the hand.
** Imagination [[spoiler:(Dragoon)]] gives all cards in the player's hand, deck, and field the wildcard suffix, which allows them to count for any archetype.
** Paradox [[spoiler:(Omega)]] selects up to two cards on the field. Any player cards selected are "automated." Any enemy cards selected are delayed by 6 turns.
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* AlphaStrike: Queen's Ability card, Checkmate, activates the leftmost effect of all of her cards and doubles their damage. If these cards are positioned correctly, they can do a lot of damage in one turn to a single target.
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* AlphaStrike: Queen's Ability card, Checkmate, activates the leftmost manual effect of all of her cards and doubles their damage. If these cards are positioned correctly, they can do a lot of damage in one turn to a single target.
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* FreudianExcuse: Aurora's mother, Maya, wants the former to put aside her conscience to focus on making her career successful. This is because Maya endured sexism in her own career and believes Aurora will need to more career-focused in order to overcome it.
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* KnightTemplarParent: Aurora's mother, Maya, wants the former to put aside her conscience to focus on making her career successful. This is because Maya endured sexism in her own career and believes Aurora will need to more career-focused in order to overcome it.
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* IntriguedByHumanity: [[spoiler:Kaia is curious about human culture, which is why she took a Dragoon comet to travel to Earth. This also explains why her deck is themed around human mythology.]]
* JackOfAllTrades:
** The game encourages the player to learn every deck, since additional Mastery Points are obtained by beating the dungeons with every deck.
** [[spoiler:Kaia's]] decks combine cards from the other characters' starter decks, making her playstyle very versatile. Her ability card also changes the postfix of all cards to be the wildcard symbol, allowing these cards to work together despite their different archetypes.
* JackOfAllTrades:
** The game encourages the player to learn every deck, since additional Mastery Points are obtained by beating the dungeons with every deck.
** [[spoiler:Kaia's]] decks combine cards from the other characters' starter decks, making her playstyle very versatile. Her ability card also changes the postfix of all cards to be the wildcard symbol, allowing these cards to work together despite their different archetypes.
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* IntriguedByHumanity: [[spoiler:Kaia is curious about human culture, which is why she took a Dragoon comet to travel to Earth. This also explains why her deck is exclusive "Myth" cards are themed around human mythology.]]
* JackOfAllTrades:
** The game encourages the player to learn every deck, since additional Mastery Points are obtained by beating the dungeons with every deck.
** [[spoiler:Kaia's]] decks combine cards from the other characters' starter decks, making her playstyle very versatile. Her ability card also changes the postfix of all cards to be the wildcard symbol, allowing these cards to work together despite their different archetypes.]]
* JackOfAllTrades:
** The game encourages the player to learn every deck, since additional Mastery Points are obtained by beating the dungeons with every deck.
** [[spoiler:Kaia's]] decks combine cards from the other characters' starter decks, making her playstyle very versatile. Her ability card also changes the postfix of all cards to be the wildcard symbol, allowing these cards to work together despite their different archetypes.
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* IntriguedByHumanity: [[spoiler:Kaia is curious about human culture, which is why she took a Dragon comet to travel to Earth. This also explains why her deck is themed around human mythology.]]
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* IntriguedByHumanity: [[spoiler:Kaia is curious about human culture, which is why she took a Dragon Dragoon comet to travel to Earth. This also explains why her deck is themed around human mythology.]]
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* IdolSinger: The hacker codenamed "Idol" has a day job of being an idol while somehow incorporating her programming skills into her performance. Unfortunately, this means Queen can hack into these performance to leave behind a calling card, something that annoys Idol to no end.
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* IdolSinger: The hacker codenamed "Idol" has a day job of being an idol while somehow incorporating her programming skills into her performance. performances. Unfortunately, this means Queen can hack into these performance performances to leave behind a calling card, something that annoys Idol to no end.
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* IdolSinger: The hacker codenamed "Idol" has a day job of being an idol while somehow incorporating her hacking skills into her performance. Unfortunately, this means Queen can inconveniently send messages during these performances.
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* IdolSinger: The hacker codenamed "Idol" has a day job of being an idol while somehow incorporating her hacking programming skills into her performance. Unfortunately, this means Queen can inconveniently send messages during hack into these performances.performance to leave behind a calling card, something that annoys Idol to no end.
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* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: After Luke gets over his depression from failing to flirt with Aurora, he decides to help Aurora and Leo get together.
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* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: In Leo's side story, his friend, Luke, is a HopelessSuitor for Aurora/Alyssa. He ends up distraught when he realizes Aurora has a crush on Leo. After Luke gets over his depression from failing to flirt with Aurora, he decides to help Aurora and Leo get together.
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* HopelessBossFight: In the first mission, the player has no means of getting around the enemy's Decompile card, which sends all cards in the field, hand, and deck to the trash. The next time the player comes across this card, they counter with the Rejuvenate card, which can be activated from the trash.
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* HopelessBossFight: In the first mission, the player has no means of getting around the enemy's Decompile card, which sends all cards in the field, hand, and deck to the trash. The next time the player comes across this card, they can counter with the Rejuvenate card, which can be activated from the trash.trash and restores all their cards.
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* HitPoints: Both the player and the cards have their own HP, though there is no enemy player to attack, just their boss at the end. This applies even to cards that only have supporting effects.
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* HitPoints: Both HitPoints:
** The operator's max health equal to theplayer and number of cards in their deck. If an enemy attacks an undefended column, the operator will take damage, making it important to defend columns.
** All cards have their ownHP, though there is no enemy player to attack, just their boss at the end. This applies health stat, even to cards that only one would normally think as as effect-only cards. This means it's possible to have supporting effects.effect-only cards act as meatshields after their effect is used up.
** The operator's max health equal to the
** All cards have their own
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** Played with. The [=CorruptedBit=] enemy card forces the player to Reprogram their deck. If the player has most of their cards in the trash, this can give them a second wind before the boss fight. On the other hand, if the player has a really strong setup on their field, this resets their field.
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** Played with. The [=CorruptedBit=] enemy card forces the player to Reprogram their deck. If the player has most of their cards in the trash, this can give them a second wind before the boss fight. On the other hand, if the player has a really strong setup on their field, this resets their field.
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* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Omega spends the main story trying to use malware to turn his country into a world power. When he's defeated, his loses control of his virus and nearly dooms human civilization when it accidentally causes a Dragoon comet to change course to Earth. Due to his blunder and Quantum sparing him, he gives up on his malware plans in the postgame and joins Quantum.]]
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* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Omega Omega spends the main story trying to use malware to turn his country into a world power. When [[spoiler:When he's defeated, his he loses control of his virus and nearly dooms human civilization when it accidentally causes a Dragoon comet to change course to Earth. Due to his blunder and Quantum sparing him, he gives up on his malware plans in the postgame and joins Quantum.]]
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* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Omega gives up on his malware plans in the postgame and joins Quantum.]]
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* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Omega spends the main story trying to use malware to turn his country into a world power. When he's defeated, his loses control of his virus and nearly dooms human civilization when it accidentally causes a Dragoon comet to change course to Earth. Due to his blunder and Quantum sparing him, he gives up on his malware plans in the postgame and joins Quantum.]]
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* EvilFormerFriend: [[spoiler:Queen and Omega used to be allies, but they split apart when Queen realized that he's willing to kill the Dragoons to claim their scales. According to the dev's Discord post, Queen, Omega, Maya, and the male Bishop were all part of a chess-themed organization before the comet crashed.]]
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* EvilFormerFriend: [[spoiler:Queen and Omega used to be allies, but they split apart when Queen realized that he's willing to kill the Dragoons to claim their scales. According to the dev's Discord post, Queen, Omega, Maya, and the male Bishop were all part of a chess-themed organization before the comet crashed.incident caused Omega to resort to increasingly questionable methods to save his country.]]
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* CloneByConversion: The Black Virus card can transform the card that destroys it into a copy of itself while still having an automatic effect that regularly damages the operator. Worse yet, it voids the original card so that it cannot be accessed from the trash. The only way to destroy the virus without getting infected is to use the execution mechanic.
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* TheCorruption: The Black Virus card can transform the card that destroys it into a copy of itself while still having an automatic effect that regularly damages the operator. Worse yet, it voids the original card so that it cannot be accessed from the trash. The only way to destroy the virus without getting infected is to use the execution mechanic.
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** Downplayed with Maya Neskara, the president of Neskara Systems. She is complicit in Omega's backdoors and Dungeon Networks, but only does so because of political pressure rather than greed. She allows Quantum to hack the dungeon anyways and covers for them, showing that when push comes to shove, she'll side with Quantum over Omega.
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** Downplayed and eventually subverted with Maya Neskara, the president of Neskara Systems. She is complicit in Omega's backdoors and Dungeon Networks, but only does so because of political pressure rather than greed. She allows Quantum to hack the dungeon anyways and covers for them, showing that when push comes to shove, she'll side with Quantum over Omega.
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** Victor Bosucha is willing to take bribes from Omega and ignore backdoors in his company's software. When Omega lambasts him about his terrible security cameras, Victor uses this as an opportunity to demand more money from Omega.
** Downplayed with Maya Neskara. She is complicit in Omega's backdoors and Dungeon Networks, but only does so because of political pressure rather than greed. She allows Quantum to hack the dungeon anyways and covers for them, showing that when push comes to shove, she'll side with Quantum over Omega.
** Downplayed with Maya Neskara. She is complicit in Omega's backdoors and Dungeon Networks, but only does so because of political pressure rather than greed. She allows Quantum to hack the dungeon anyways and covers for them, showing that when push comes to shove, she'll side with Quantum over Omega.
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** Victor Bosucha is willing to take bribes from Omega [[BigBad Omega]] to help the latter in maintaining a Dungeon Network and ignore backdoors allow a backdoor in his company's Aegis Industries' android security software. When Omega lambasts him about his terrible security cameras, Victor uses this as an opportunity to demand more money from Omega.
** Downplayed with MayaNeskara.Neskara, the president of Neskara Systems. She is complicit in Omega's backdoors and Dungeon Networks, but only does so because of political pressure rather than greed. She allows Quantum to hack the dungeon anyways and covers for them, showing that when push comes to shove, she'll side with Quantum over Omega.
** Downplayed with Maya
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* ColonyDrop: The unnamed country of the setting was almost completely destroyed by a comet, leaving nothing but an island city. [[spoiler:It turns out the comet is a spaceship piloted by Dragoon aliens, who crashed the comet by accident. When Omega loses control of his virus, a second comet that the virus infected is set on a collision course with the planet.]]
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* ColonyDrop: The unnamed country of the setting was almost completely destroyed by a comet, leaving nothing but an island city. [[spoiler:It turns out the comet is a spaceship was piloted by Dragoon aliens, who crashed the comet by accident. When Omega loses control of his virus, a second comet that the virus infected is set on a collision course with the planet.]]
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* ColonyDrop: The unnamed country of the setting was almost completely destroyed by a comet, leaving nothing but an island city. [[spoiler:It turns out the comet was piloted by Dragoon aliens, who crashed the comet by accident. When Omega loses control of his virus, a second comet that the virus infected is set on a collision course with the planet.]]
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* ColonyDrop: The unnamed country of the setting was almost completely destroyed by a comet, leaving nothing but an island city. [[spoiler:It turns out the comet was is a spaceship piloted by Dragoon aliens, who crashed the comet by accident. When Omega loses control of his virus, a second comet that the virus infected is set on a collision course with the planet.]]
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* ColonyDrop: The country was almost completely destroyed by a comet, leaving nothing but an island city. [[spoiler:When Omega loses control of his virus, a second comet that the virus infected is set on a collision course with the planet.]]
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* ColonyDrop: The unnamed country of the setting was almost completely destroyed by a comet, leaving nothing but an island city. [[spoiler:When [[spoiler:It turns out the comet was piloted by Dragoon aliens, who crashed the comet by accident. When Omega loses control of his virus, a second comet that the virus infected is set on a collision course with the planet.]]
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* CityOnTheWater: The art of the city indicates that it's an island, but in the fourth dungeon, it's revealed that the island is being balanced by a machine so it doesn't tip over, indicating that the island is artificial.
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* CityOnTheWater: The art of the city indicates that it's an island, but in the fourth penultimate dungeon, it's revealed that the island is being balanced by a machine so it doesn't tip over, indicating that the island is artificial.
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* CityOnTheWater: The art of the city makes it look like an island in the middle of an ocean, but it's also being balanced by a machine so it doesn't tip over, indicating that the island is artificial.
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* CityOnTheWater: The art of the city makes it look like an island in the middle of an ocean, but indicates that it's also an island, but in the fourth dungeon, it's revealed that the island is being balanced by a machine so it doesn't tip over, indicating that the island is artificial.
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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Queen is the leader of Quantum and has a deck that is intentionally easier to use compared to the others.
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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Queen is the leader of Quantum and has a deck that is intentionally easier to use compared to the others.others, since it's already strong enough to beat all the story dungeons without having to use the deck editing system.
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* OneHundredPercentCompletion: Every dungeon node keeps track of which decks were used to beat it, with each new deck clear resulting in more Mastery Points. Getting every Mastery Point requires the player to defeat all nodes with all possible decks.
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* OneHundredPercentCompletion: HundredPercentCompletion: Every dungeon node keeps track of which decks were used to beat it, with each new deck clear resulting in more Mastery Points. Getting every Mastery Point requires the player to defeat all nodes with all possible decks.
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''Quantum Protocol'' is a 2020 deckbuilding game developed by Kaio Meris with Unreal Engine.
You play as Quantum, a hacker organization that destroys malware and fixes security problems with a card game interface. Unfortunately, the island city they're stationed in is ruled by a cyberterrorist, Omega, who is more than capable of matching them program for program. It'll take a combination of both R&D and strategic card plays in order to stop Omega's machinations.
Steam link [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1328530/ here]].
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!This game contains examples of:
* OneHundredPercentCompletion: Every dungeon node keeps track of which decks were used to beat it, with each new deck clear resulting in more Mastery Points. Getting every Mastery Point requires the player to defeat all nodes with all possible decks.
* AlphaStrike: Queen's Ability card, Checkmate, activates the leftmost effect of all of her cards and doubles their damage. If these cards are positioned correctly, they can do a lot of damage in one turn to a single target.
* AndYourLittleDogToo: [[spoiler:When Queen confronts Omega in Lab Epsilon, the latter threatens to ruin her friends' lives. This causes Queen to go ahead with hacking his brain computer, despite how the backlash could kill him.]]
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Queen is the leader of Quantum and has a deck that is intentionally easier to use compared to the others.
* BigBad: Omega, the leader of the Astrika Foundation and the island city, is using Dungeon Networks to create powerful malware. All of this is a misguided attempt to make his meteor-ruined country relevant again.
* BoringButPractical: The tutorial deck Queen uses in the first mission contains cards with high attack and HP, but no other abilities. This is still enough to brute force most enemy cards and Queen probably could have completed the mission easily if it weren't for the enemy's Decompile card.
* CityOnTheWater: The art of the city makes it look like an island in the middle of an ocean, but it's also being balanced by a machine so it doesn't tip over, indicating that the island is artificial.
* ColonyDrop: The country was almost completely destroyed by a comet, leaving nothing but an island city. [[spoiler:When Omega loses control of his virus, a second comet that the virus infected is set on a collision course with the planet.]]
* CorruptCorporateExecutive:
** Victor Bosucha is willing to take bribes from Omega and ignore backdoors in his company's software. When Omega lambasts him about his terrible security cameras, Victor uses this as an opportunity to demand more money from Omega.
** Downplayed with Maya Neskara. She is complicit in Omega's backdoors and Dungeon Networks, but only does so because of political pressure rather than greed. She allows Quantum to hack the dungeon anyways and covers for them, showing that when push comes to shove, she'll side with Quantum over Omega.
* TheCorruption: The Black Virus card can transform the card that destroys it into a copy of itself while still having an automatic effect that regularly damages the operator. Worse yet, it voids the original card so that it cannot be accessed from the trash. The only way to destroy the virus without getting infected is to use the execution mechanic.
* EvilFormerFriend: [[spoiler:Queen and Omega used to be allies, but they split apart when Queen realized that he's willing to kill the Dragoons to claim their scales. According to the dev's Discord post, Queen, Omega, Maya, and the male Bishop were all part of a chess-themed organization before the comet crashed.]]
* FusionDance: In the Reprogram menu, the player can combine three duplicate card into a single stronger version of the originals. Doing this isn't always optimal, since there are some cards that work better by using their effect [[QuantityVsQuality multiple times rather than only once]].
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Omega gives up on his malware plans in the postgame and joins Quantum.]]
* HelpfulMook:
** Played with. The [=CorruptedBit=] enemy card forces the player to Reprogram their deck. If the player has most of their cards in the trash, this can give them a second wind before the boss fight. On the other hand, if the player has a really strong setup on their field, this resets their field.
** The Sanctum enemy card also resets the player's deck and field, while adding a healing effect. This is to compensate for the fact that it's encountered in the final level, which is longer and has more bosses than the previous dungeons.
* HitPoints: Both the player and the cards have their own HP, though there is no enemy player to attack, just their boss at the end. This applies even to cards that only have supporting effects.
* HopelessBossFight: In the first mission, the player has no means of getting around the enemy's Decompile card, which sends all cards in the field, hand, and deck to the trash. The next time the player comes across this card, they counter with the Rejuvenate card, which can be activated from the trash.
* HumanResources: [[spoiler:The scales of Dragoons can be used as powerful computer chips, but according to the developer on their Discord, breaking the scales off kills the Dragoon and Omega already killed Kaia's sister this way.]]
* IOweYouMyLife: [[spoiler:After Idol convinces Queen and Kaia to save Omega, he decides that he owes Idol a favor and joins Quantum.]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: After Luke gets over his depression from failing to flirt with Aurora, he decides to help Aurora and Leo get together.
* IdolSinger: The hacker codenamed "Idol" has a day job of being an idol while somehow incorporating her hacking skills into her performance. Unfortunately, this means Queen can inconveniently send messages during these performances.
* IntriguedByHumanity: [[spoiler:Kaia is curious about human culture, which is why she took a Dragon comet to travel to Earth. This also explains why her deck is themed around human mythology.]]
* JackOfAllTrades:
** The game encourages the player to learn every deck, since additional Mastery Points are obtained by beating the dungeons with every deck.
** [[spoiler:Kaia's]] decks combine cards from the other characters' starter decks, making her playstyle very versatile. Her ability card also changes the postfix of all cards to be the wildcard symbol, allowing these cards to work together despite their different archetypes.
* KnightTemplarParent: Aurora's mother, Maya, wants the former to put aside her conscience to focus on making her career successful. This is because Maya endured sexism in her own career and believes Aurora will need to more career-focused in order to overcome it.
* LimitBreak: All operators have Ability cards, which can be activated once they execute enough cards. The effects of these cards range from stopping turns from counting down on enemy cards to activating all of one's card effects on the field at once.
* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: Queen's Checkmate deck differs from the others in that she doesn't get the Reprogram card. Instead, this deck uses the King card to load cards in the trash back into the deck, and then gain 1 attack for every card recovered. However, if the King is sent from the field to the trash, the game is lost.
* MightyGlacier:
** Offensive enemy cards won't act right away and have to wait for a cooldown, but they tend to be stronger and more durable than the player's cards.
** Queen's Checkmate deck has a fixed size of 16, which is large by the standards of the game and can make it difficult to get the exact cards the player needs. This deck also lacks searching effects that other decks have. However, the deck contains relatively overpowered cards and the large deck size means Queen starts with 16 HP.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Justified because the card battle system is an abstraction of programs rather than a TCG managed by a company, which means new cards can be created on a whim by programmers.
** When Queen runs into an enemy card that can instantly trash her entire deck, Esper creates a deck restoration card, Rejuvenation, that can be added back to the deck from the trash.
** All the dungeons consist of a long series of increasingly powerful waves, so Esper upgrades Rejuvenation into Reprogram, which allows the user to add new cards to their deck.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:According to the dev's Discord post, Queen caused Omega to lose control of his virus when she defeated him, leading to the comet he uploaded it to going out of control too.]]
* NintendoHard: All dungeons after the first have enemies with effects that can easily disrupt your strategies along with very tanky and tricky bosses. Even the PurposefullyOverpowered Checkmate deck will struggle with these enemies if the player cannot figure out the best strategy.
* ObliviousToLove: Leo tries to help his friend, Luke, flirt with Aurora, but Luke realizes that Aurora already has a crush on Leo. Unfortunately for Aurora, Leo only sees her a a childhood friend and is too dense to notice her feelings.
* OlderThanTheyLook: According to the developer, Queen is in her 30s, despite not looking much older than the other female members of Quantum.
* OnlineAlias: The Quantum members and other significant characters are usually referred to with their online handles. Though Leo uses his RealNameAsAnAlias.
** Queen's real name is Elaine.
** Esper's real name is Irene.
** Aurora's real name is Alyssa Neskara.
** Idol's real name is Lisa.
** Omega, the leader of the city, has Kyril as his real name.
* ParentsAsPeople: Despite her strictness towards her daughter, Maya does want Aurora to succeed and eventually supports the latter's activities in Quantum. She also allows Aurora and her friends to hack Neskara's Dungeon Network and covers for them when Omega tries to investigate.
* PurposelyOverpowered: Queen's Checkmate deck is intended to be easier to beat dungeons with, due to the ease of getting multiple Queen cards on the field and nuking the enemies with AOE damage. While the deck cannot access the deck edit menu, it's strong enough on its own that it doesn't need editing.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:The Dragoons who crashed onto the surface did so by accident and never intended to hurt anyone. Unfortunately, this destroyed an entire country, causing Omega to become desperate to regain his land's former glory.]]
* SaveTheVillain: [[spoiler:After Queen defeats Omega's puzzle level, his brain computer malfunctions and nearly kills him. Queen is willing to let him die, but Idol convinces her to save him.]]
* SparedButNotForgiven: [[spoiler:Although Omega is spared and allowed to join Quantum in the postgame, it's clear that the group doesn't fully trust him. Considering that he was planning to use a comet as a WMD and was willing to sacrifice Dragoons to pull it off, their distrust is understandable.]]
* ThemeDeck: All decks contain cards based around a certain theme, such as fruit, Japanese weapons, music, and chess. These cards also have effects to support other cards of the same type.
* VillainRespect: After the Aegis dungeon, Omega compliments Victor for manipulating the former into giving the latter more money.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Omega believes he needs to use powerful malware to restore his country that was destroyed by the Dragoon comet. Since his country has negligible military power, he wants to make up for that with a virus that can delete any nation's data. [[spoiler:He uploads his virus into a second Dragoon comet, and it's implied he intends to use the comet [[MutuallyAssuredDestruction to match other countries' nukes]].]]
* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler:When Kaia fixes Omega's brain computer, she encounters a wave full of cards named Queen, with the following wave having a single card named [=BrokenHeart=]. It's implied that some of his irrational behavior, such as his threat against Queen's friends, is due to his anger at her defection.]]
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You play as Quantum, a hacker organization that destroys malware and fixes security problems with a card game interface. Unfortunately, the island city they're stationed in is ruled by a cyberterrorist, Omega, who is more than capable of matching them program for program. It'll take a combination of both R&D and strategic card plays in order to stop Omega's machinations.
Steam link [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1328530/ here]].
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!This game contains examples of:
* OneHundredPercentCompletion: Every dungeon node keeps track of which decks were used to beat it, with each new deck clear resulting in more Mastery Points. Getting every Mastery Point requires the player to defeat all nodes with all possible decks.
* AlphaStrike: Queen's Ability card, Checkmate, activates the leftmost effect of all of her cards and doubles their damage. If these cards are positioned correctly, they can do a lot of damage in one turn to a single target.
* AndYourLittleDogToo: [[spoiler:When Queen confronts Omega in Lab Epsilon, the latter threatens to ruin her friends' lives. This causes Queen to go ahead with hacking his brain computer, despite how the backlash could kill him.]]
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Queen is the leader of Quantum and has a deck that is intentionally easier to use compared to the others.
* BigBad: Omega, the leader of the Astrika Foundation and the island city, is using Dungeon Networks to create powerful malware. All of this is a misguided attempt to make his meteor-ruined country relevant again.
* BoringButPractical: The tutorial deck Queen uses in the first mission contains cards with high attack and HP, but no other abilities. This is still enough to brute force most enemy cards and Queen probably could have completed the mission easily if it weren't for the enemy's Decompile card.
* CityOnTheWater: The art of the city makes it look like an island in the middle of an ocean, but it's also being balanced by a machine so it doesn't tip over, indicating that the island is artificial.
* ColonyDrop: The country was almost completely destroyed by a comet, leaving nothing but an island city. [[spoiler:When Omega loses control of his virus, a second comet that the virus infected is set on a collision course with the planet.]]
* CorruptCorporateExecutive:
** Victor Bosucha is willing to take bribes from Omega and ignore backdoors in his company's software. When Omega lambasts him about his terrible security cameras, Victor uses this as an opportunity to demand more money from Omega.
** Downplayed with Maya Neskara. She is complicit in Omega's backdoors and Dungeon Networks, but only does so because of political pressure rather than greed. She allows Quantum to hack the dungeon anyways and covers for them, showing that when push comes to shove, she'll side with Quantum over Omega.
* TheCorruption: The Black Virus card can transform the card that destroys it into a copy of itself while still having an automatic effect that regularly damages the operator. Worse yet, it voids the original card so that it cannot be accessed from the trash. The only way to destroy the virus without getting infected is to use the execution mechanic.
* EvilFormerFriend: [[spoiler:Queen and Omega used to be allies, but they split apart when Queen realized that he's willing to kill the Dragoons to claim their scales. According to the dev's Discord post, Queen, Omega, Maya, and the male Bishop were all part of a chess-themed organization before the comet crashed.]]
* FusionDance: In the Reprogram menu, the player can combine three duplicate card into a single stronger version of the originals. Doing this isn't always optimal, since there are some cards that work better by using their effect [[QuantityVsQuality multiple times rather than only once]].
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Omega gives up on his malware plans in the postgame and joins Quantum.]]
* HelpfulMook:
** Played with. The [=CorruptedBit=] enemy card forces the player to Reprogram their deck. If the player has most of their cards in the trash, this can give them a second wind before the boss fight. On the other hand, if the player has a really strong setup on their field, this resets their field.
** The Sanctum enemy card also resets the player's deck and field, while adding a healing effect. This is to compensate for the fact that it's encountered in the final level, which is longer and has more bosses than the previous dungeons.
* HitPoints: Both the player and the cards have their own HP, though there is no enemy player to attack, just their boss at the end. This applies even to cards that only have supporting effects.
* HopelessBossFight: In the first mission, the player has no means of getting around the enemy's Decompile card, which sends all cards in the field, hand, and deck to the trash. The next time the player comes across this card, they counter with the Rejuvenate card, which can be activated from the trash.
* HumanResources: [[spoiler:The scales of Dragoons can be used as powerful computer chips, but according to the developer on their Discord, breaking the scales off kills the Dragoon and Omega already killed Kaia's sister this way.]]
* IOweYouMyLife: [[spoiler:After Idol convinces Queen and Kaia to save Omega, he decides that he owes Idol a favor and joins Quantum.]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: After Luke gets over his depression from failing to flirt with Aurora, he decides to help Aurora and Leo get together.
* IdolSinger: The hacker codenamed "Idol" has a day job of being an idol while somehow incorporating her hacking skills into her performance. Unfortunately, this means Queen can inconveniently send messages during these performances.
* IntriguedByHumanity: [[spoiler:Kaia is curious about human culture, which is why she took a Dragon comet to travel to Earth. This also explains why her deck is themed around human mythology.]]
* JackOfAllTrades:
** The game encourages the player to learn every deck, since additional Mastery Points are obtained by beating the dungeons with every deck.
** [[spoiler:Kaia's]] decks combine cards from the other characters' starter decks, making her playstyle very versatile. Her ability card also changes the postfix of all cards to be the wildcard symbol, allowing these cards to work together despite their different archetypes.
* KnightTemplarParent: Aurora's mother, Maya, wants the former to put aside her conscience to focus on making her career successful. This is because Maya endured sexism in her own career and believes Aurora will need to more career-focused in order to overcome it.
* LimitBreak: All operators have Ability cards, which can be activated once they execute enough cards. The effects of these cards range from stopping turns from counting down on enemy cards to activating all of one's card effects on the field at once.
* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: Queen's Checkmate deck differs from the others in that she doesn't get the Reprogram card. Instead, this deck uses the King card to load cards in the trash back into the deck, and then gain 1 attack for every card recovered. However, if the King is sent from the field to the trash, the game is lost.
* MightyGlacier:
** Offensive enemy cards won't act right away and have to wait for a cooldown, but they tend to be stronger and more durable than the player's cards.
** Queen's Checkmate deck has a fixed size of 16, which is large by the standards of the game and can make it difficult to get the exact cards the player needs. This deck also lacks searching effects that other decks have. However, the deck contains relatively overpowered cards and the large deck size means Queen starts with 16 HP.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Justified because the card battle system is an abstraction of programs rather than a TCG managed by a company, which means new cards can be created on a whim by programmers.
** When Queen runs into an enemy card that can instantly trash her entire deck, Esper creates a deck restoration card, Rejuvenation, that can be added back to the deck from the trash.
** All the dungeons consist of a long series of increasingly powerful waves, so Esper upgrades Rejuvenation into Reprogram, which allows the user to add new cards to their deck.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:According to the dev's Discord post, Queen caused Omega to lose control of his virus when she defeated him, leading to the comet he uploaded it to going out of control too.]]
* NintendoHard: All dungeons after the first have enemies with effects that can easily disrupt your strategies along with very tanky and tricky bosses. Even the PurposefullyOverpowered Checkmate deck will struggle with these enemies if the player cannot figure out the best strategy.
* ObliviousToLove: Leo tries to help his friend, Luke, flirt with Aurora, but Luke realizes that Aurora already has a crush on Leo. Unfortunately for Aurora, Leo only sees her a a childhood friend and is too dense to notice her feelings.
* OlderThanTheyLook: According to the developer, Queen is in her 30s, despite not looking much older than the other female members of Quantum.
* OnlineAlias: The Quantum members and other significant characters are usually referred to with their online handles. Though Leo uses his RealNameAsAnAlias.
** Queen's real name is Elaine.
** Esper's real name is Irene.
** Aurora's real name is Alyssa Neskara.
** Idol's real name is Lisa.
** Omega, the leader of the city, has Kyril as his real name.
* ParentsAsPeople: Despite her strictness towards her daughter, Maya does want Aurora to succeed and eventually supports the latter's activities in Quantum. She also allows Aurora and her friends to hack Neskara's Dungeon Network and covers for them when Omega tries to investigate.
* PurposelyOverpowered: Queen's Checkmate deck is intended to be easier to beat dungeons with, due to the ease of getting multiple Queen cards on the field and nuking the enemies with AOE damage. While the deck cannot access the deck edit menu, it's strong enough on its own that it doesn't need editing.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:The Dragoons who crashed onto the surface did so by accident and never intended to hurt anyone. Unfortunately, this destroyed an entire country, causing Omega to become desperate to regain his land's former glory.]]
* SaveTheVillain: [[spoiler:After Queen defeats Omega's puzzle level, his brain computer malfunctions and nearly kills him. Queen is willing to let him die, but Idol convinces her to save him.]]
* SparedButNotForgiven: [[spoiler:Although Omega is spared and allowed to join Quantum in the postgame, it's clear that the group doesn't fully trust him. Considering that he was planning to use a comet as a WMD and was willing to sacrifice Dragoons to pull it off, their distrust is understandable.]]
* ThemeDeck: All decks contain cards based around a certain theme, such as fruit, Japanese weapons, music, and chess. These cards also have effects to support other cards of the same type.
* VillainRespect: After the Aegis dungeon, Omega compliments Victor for manipulating the former into giving the latter more money.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Omega believes he needs to use powerful malware to restore his country that was destroyed by the Dragoon comet. Since his country has negligible military power, he wants to make up for that with a virus that can delete any nation's data. [[spoiler:He uploads his virus into a second Dragoon comet, and it's implied he intends to use the comet [[MutuallyAssuredDestruction to match other countries' nukes]].]]
* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler:When Kaia fixes Omega's brain computer, she encounters a wave full of cards named Queen, with the following wave having a single card named [=BrokenHeart=]. It's implied that some of his irrational behavior, such as his threat against Queen's friends, is due to his anger at her defection.]]
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