Culdcept BEGINS

Culdcept BEGINS combines board game rounds with strategic card duels. You roll dice to move across a game board, capture areas and defend them with summoned creatures, equipment and spells. Whoever controls the board skillfully increasingly determines the opponents' paths and decisions.

The fantasy adventure tells its own story. The battles can be played alone or in matches with up to four players.

Culdcept BEGINS launched on July 16, 2026 for Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2. The PC version releases on Oct 28, 2026 on Steam. In some regionally adjusted Steam stores, Oct 27 is shown instead.

A retail version for Nintendo Switch 2 also launched on September 17 in Europe and North America.

Culdcept BEGINS is out on Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2, and is also coming to Windows PC. The Switch 2 Edition adds mouse controls and GameShare to the Switch version.

Online, Switch and Switch 2 players can compete against each other. There is no crossplay between Nintendo consoles and the Steam version.

In Culdcept BEGINS, players move across a board with dice and claim areas with cards. In encounters, creatures, equipment and spells decide who controls a space. Your choice of path and how you build your deck determine which options open up in the next turn.

The PC version requires Windows 11, DirectX 11 and about 3 GB of free storage space. Steam lists an Intel Core i5-8100U as the minimum processor and Intel HD Graphics 630 as the graphics solution.

Steam achievements and Steam Cloud are among the PC features. No separate macOS or Linux version is listed on the Steam store.

More than 400 cards can be combined into your own decks in Culdcept BEGINS. Creature cards secure spaces or attack other areas. Item cards change how an encounter plays out, and spell cards affect what happens on the board.

The cards in a deck must work together: a strong creature helps little if the other cards do not support its abilities.

Kamru attends the royal Cept Academy on the continent of Bavrashka. There, aspiring Cepters learn to handle the power of magic stone tablets. His abilities earn Kamru a place in the royal Cepter Guard.

A war threatens the continent and draws the young fighters into a larger conflict. The story accompanies the strategic duels.

Up to four players can compete against each other in Culdcept BEGINS. Online player matchmaking pairs you with other players. Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 play on the same network, but the Steam version does not support crossplay with the Nintendo versions.

Online matches on Nintendo consoles require Nintendo Switch Online.

On Nintendo Switch 2, Culdcept BEGINS supports mouse controls and GameShare. With GameShare, one person can share the game with up to three other participants, locally or via GameChat.

Shared games offer six prepared decks and a selection of suitable game boards. Recipients can only play the game during a GameShare session.

The PC version adds the game boards X, Fortune Alley and Holy Hammer to Culdcept BEGINS. On X, the strongholds sit in dead ends. Fortune Alley offers several fortune tellers and a warp space. Holy Hammer runs back and forth between strongholds at the ends of the board.

These three boards are also due to appear on Switch and Switch 2 with a free update.

The PC version offers voice output of card names in the card catalogue. Neos has also improved the visibility of figures on the board and simplified card selection in information views.

At forks, clearer direction symbols show the path taken. Ten additional deck sleeves change the design of the card books.

Culdcept BEGINS offers on-screen text in English, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese. A German text version is not included in the official language listings.

The Digital Deluxe Edition includes music, image and text files in addition to the game. These include a complete Japanese card book, the soundtrack with 53 tracks, five PC wallpapers, game voices and the font of the fantasy world.

These files supplement the main version but do not change the card battles.