Snowfall Games is thrilled to reveal that everyone’s new favorite real-life cryptid, Jimothy, the deformed raccoon from Seattle, will be joining the cast of their upcoming cryptid deck-building auto-battler Portentum. Coming to Steam later this year, Portentum combines original hand-drawn cryptid artwork with deep deck-building strategy, letting you hunt for broken combos using legendary creatures from around the world, like Bigfoot, Mothman, and the Chupacabra. And now, Jimothy too!
In Portentum, each run begins by building a deck of 30 cryptids and mushrooms. Each cryptid has its own ability: deal damage, heal, summon minions, or manipulate the dice. Abilities trigger on events you can build around, like a roll of the dice, an ally taking damage, or an enemy healing one of its own. Feeding mushrooms to your cryptids amplifies their abilities and stats. There are endless combinations and broken strategies to be discovered.
Once your deck is ready, it’s time to start your run. Draw a hand, spend coins to assemble a warband of five cryptids, and send them into battle. From there, the dice take over: abilities fire, combos chain, and the fight plays out on its own until one warband is left standing. Rework your warband between battles as the run goes on. Win ten battles to take the run. Lose five, and you’re out.
Portentum’s meta is ever-evolving, as every warband you create joins the pool that other players face. As you keep playing and opening card packs, entirely new deck-building possibilities and obscenely killer combos will enter the fray, providing an endless array of strategic possibilities and challenges!
“It was truly an astounding coincidence that we, as humans, discovered a real-life cryptid while we, at Snowfall, were nose deep in development of our own cryptid-based card battler,” said Jaden Holladay, Co-Founder at Snowfall Games. “We were already huge cryptid heads, and our Hunt Bigfoot mod in Fortnite had over 5 million plays, so players kept coming to us asking for more Cryptid games. That, combined with our love of deck-builders, inspired Portentum. When Jimothy was revealed – literally in my neighborhood! – we knew we needed to immortalize him forever by adding him to the Portentum roster.”
For more information on Portentum:
Wishlist on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4836460/Portentum
Portentum website: https://portentum.game/
