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None Shall Intrude
Developer Aeterna Ludi
Venture into None Shall Intrude, a roguelite deck-builder with tile-based combat where you become a powerful Raid Boss. Epic battles, intricate strategies, and the ever-present threat of heroic challengers seeking to vanquish your reign. Will you conquer all or fall to valiant heroes? From the Steam store page
206 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 4, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
65
Fresh
126 positive · 67 negative
95% range 58–72%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 126 | 67 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
437 of 614 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
65% recommend · 122 yes, 67 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 189 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (745 of 1,020 positive).
Players praise the game's core concept and art, but many note it feels unfinished and buggy. [1][2][3] Several reviewers highlight that only the red dragon is well-developed, with other aspects lacking content. [4][5][6] Some players enjoy the gameplay loop and replayability, while others criticize technical issues and lack of polish. [7][8][9]
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- [3]
I love dragons, and deckbuilder games like this are my jam, so please understand how much it galls me to have to leave a negative review here. It's got some neat ideas, like the terrain shift mechanics and the feel of playing an MMO boss with health-gated enrage mechanics. There's the seed of a good game here. But it's not finished, and it seems to be abandoned - at this point it's been 4 & 1/2 months without any …
- [9]
I am giving this a negative review, despite genuinely loving the core concept. In its current state, this game should never have been released. It is painfully clear that the developer pushed it out before it was finished. The experience is marred by several glaring issues: Technical Polish: The game is riddled with annoying bugs and a clunky UI. Poor Design: Tooltip design is subpar, and many mechanics are either …
- [2]
After spending over 30 hours in the demo before the game's release, I eventually got around to buying the full game -- I figured as bug-filled as it was, I enjoyed it, and deserved to give it a proper review, especially since this subreddit and the Steam discussions are rather sparse, so an in-depth "what the heck is this game" from someone who's now got 60-some hours is deserved. TLDR: Is it worth it? I will echo …
- [8]
genuinely an awesome game to just mindlessly play while listening to podcasts or other forms of content. not an overtly hard game but has enough difficulties to keep you entangled in it. surprisingly not crazy hard to get every single achievement in the game and I had a blast doing it. not sure why the game has mixed reviews I only had good experiences with the game and everything else so i would say read the …
- [7]
Very good deckbuilding rougelite. The different Dragon Aspects, Talents, Boss Mechanics, and elemental card types really help the replay value. Buying decorations for your lair postgame is also a nice touch. I 100% completed the game in just over 14 hours, but I bet it can be done sooner. Armament levels don't have to be done in consecutive order as I jumped from 15 to 40 in an attempt to finish the game faster, …
Summarised from 34 of the 203 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
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None Shall Intrude sits at 65% positive across 193 opinionated reactions from 3 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
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60 of 206 · most liked firstI love dragons, and deckbuilder games like this are my jam, so please understand how much it galls me to have to leave a negative review here. It's got some neat ideas, like the terrain shift mechanics and the feel of playing an MMO boss with health-gated enrage mechanics. There's the seed of a good game here. But it's not finished, and it seems to be abandoned - at this point it's been 4 & 1/2 months without any kind of patch or word from the devs, despite basic issues like the game lagging on…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is heavily unoptimized and littered with bugs (some are even corrupting the save file). Devs abandoned it to work on a "third project" (source: official Discord server). Do not recommend buying anything from Aeterna Ludi unless you want to waste your time and money.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want you to imagine someone came up to you and said, "Here's a finished product." And you looked at it, and it was a sandwich with no bread. Just a bloke holding some ham, going "that'll be ten quid." That's this game. That's what we're dealing with. Let's start with the visuals, because apparently nobody else did. It looks like an early-2000s Flash game - you remember those, you played them at work when you should've been doing your job - except those were free, and made by one teenager in…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Well, once again there is an early access game without EA disclosure. Because there is no way to explain how a full release game can have this many bugs and be that imbalanced. You are not a raid boss. It sure feels great to have 50k hp - until you realise that the heroes deal 5-15k per turn and have 50k hp themselves. Even the heroless armies consist of a bunch of guys with 1k dmg and 3k hp - so who is raiding whom and who is the boss? Power fantasy is simply not here. Terrain…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am writing this from a perspective of someone who really enjoyed the game and finished it as all 5 dragon aspects on max difficulty lvl. It is an awesome block puzzle/card game dark fantasy Slay The Spire combo. Great core mechanics idea. Unfortunately the quantity and quality of content makes this position look like a very undercooked product. A game in this state should still be in beta - I hope that the revenue from selling this as a finished game will actually fuel further…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am giving this a negative review, despite genuinely loving the core concept. In its current state, this game should never have been released. It is painfully clear that the developer pushed it out before it was finished. The experience is marred by several glaring issues: Technical Polish: The game is riddled with annoying bugs and a clunky UI. Poor Design: Tooltip design is subpar, and many mechanics are either left unexplained or are fundamentally broken. Information Accessibility: You…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I cannot emphasize how much I wanted to like this game. I love dragons. I tend to enjoy this kind of game. It just... Doesn't have it. There is no real gameplay to it that feels satisfying or sensical. Everything happens on an awkward grid and honestly you could throw whatever card you want down and have it do any number of things. You never actually have to understand the combo system because you're either tediously wearing things down or winning by a landslide no matter what you do.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There’s a demo for a game called None Shall Intrude during the steam next fest It is a deck building roguelite where you play as a raid boss who is a dragon Finally, games for me (I have some minor quibbles but I’m absolutely getting it when it releases)
positive · AI labelView post →Despite the positive reviews this game is a tremedously buggy mess. I have 4 hours on record and "beat the game" according to the achievements. I hadn't even beaten the second of the knight trio. Not sure what's going on here. Got kind of monotonous after a short time.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Love the game's idea, but cannot give it a positive review until I can actually play my cards. Theres a lot of UI problems to include, cards being counted as played but no effect, cards that cannot be played(even when all requirements are met; this also causes a bug where the card will stay in the middle of the screen), and I had the board cleared with no ending so I had to just alt+F4 the game after leaving it up for an hour. Also all the audio failures annoy me to no end. Loved the early…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →dont get me wrong, i LIKE the game. just too many small issues atm to give it a positive. squish animation for Dorian doesnt change with aspect type. lots of lag/frame drops when lot of things are going on. (ENABLING screen shake lead to LESS?) some ultimate powers are just kinda useless, healing 5k hp is nowhere as useful as 10k armor (in most situations). no custom cave for each aspect. :( talent tree could be changed, most boss mechanics just seems the best. also cant prev both of the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very promising in the demo but is very shallow upon release sadly. There is little reason to play once you have conquered the map once (which it counts as a defeat). I also beat it within the second run I did. The alternate dragons are fun enough but lack the same fluidity the base 3 elements offered. and doesnt even change your loot pool to populate it with cards and relics unique to those dragons (Even if that means locking pyro to the red dragon). Typical rogue like enjoyers wont like…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Currently the game UI is rather buggy and I couldn't even get through the tutorial- there was literally a looping info glitch and when I skipped (what I thought was just that piece) it skipped the WHOLE mission. The second mission of the tutorial started fine but then it got to a point where it just stuck and wouldn't let me end my turn. I can only imagine how the main game must be super buggy if the tutorial doesn't even work right. It looks like it should be fun, but its currently unplayable…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →sooooooooo the game is a great concept and fun, but it feels souless, it feels like theres missing sound effects and missing assets boss battles seem to have no music for whatever reason? heroes dont really have a lot of their own sound effects, over all lots of sound effects just outright missing from the game i turned the volume up to see if this was just me but its not there are just sounds that are missing from the game it just kills some immersion if you are going into a epic…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game itself was awesome and fun but when you want to make a full completion and the game crashes making you lose all progress it ruins the experience. This Crash hasn't been fixed since the game came out, please fix it I have played for 9 hours so far and it has crashed like this 4 times
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I had a really good time in the game so far. The game has some really cool artwork and music. "Talents" and "Boss Mechanics" offer some impactful variety in gameplay. Many of them work pretty well together and are easy to combine. Different dragon types have some funny mechanics that makes each one fairly unique in terms of how to play and set up your cards. (Some work so well they can loop in themself and get out of hand with the help of said mechanics and talents) The replayability comes…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →not enough content and too many bugs for a full price purchase, you plat the game in less than 12 hours. there is a new game + options but if you kill a boss you already beat the game will be locked in the 'pick your relic' page. it pains me because the idea is cool but at the moment it's not worth it
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Completely embarrassing to call this a finished product. Visual design looks generic, to the tune of those early 2k's flash games with one actual character design surrounded by half-assed enemy units. It looks second rate even by mobile game standards. For some reason the unstylized menu text in the settings was hazy and pixelated even after adjusting my resolution, making it hard for me to read even with my glasses. Sound design is flat and uninteresting, and I only actually noticed three…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i like this game but i wouldent recomand it to anyone, until it's fixed. i did like 4-5 runs in to the game it's not hard hard, but its fun, the only problem the constant frame lag and the some time out of nowhere compleat crash of the game. to this moment i was playing and i lost the run that i already won and gone above and beyond because i wanted to compleat the map but when i had 4/5 fights left the game just exloded and i am not eble to continue the run. i even tryed runnin the game on…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Probably one of the biggest disappointment in a while. Game shows promises, but fails to deliver. All the ingredients for a good game are there, but a few good ideas does not a good game make. Except for the Fire and Void aspects, it feels like the aspects lack any support from the game. With very few cards slotting into their strategies. The unique boss encounters are cool. But most of those box out fun strategies. (For example, the acid drake fight completely breaks if you play a whelp…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A verry nice game with easy mechanics that can be exploited in to crashing the game. :)) If you are a fan of turn-based tactical games I say you should give this game a try. In my 4th or 5th playthrough I made some combination of abilities with which I have won the base game, but I tried to go further and beat every zone on the map and at some point the game crashed. At one of the bosses I have defeated it with multiple passives and I remained blocked in combat without any ability to move…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →✔ it introduces some unique mechanics (literally you can have different mechanics depending on your life percentage) ✔ fast paced, fun for a while ? area control with evolving terrain modifications is then base of combat ✘ seems very much unfinished/unpolished on every turn ✘ unbalanced and either unchallenging or impossible (when you crank up the difficulty/debuffs lever) ✘ repetitive
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I got really hyped by the trailer and idea, but game is buggy (can soft lock you in the middle of the game) the cards are quite boring (no exciting new ones while you progress) and it feels quite repetetive. On the good side: idea, the combination mechanic for environmental effects.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Eh...its a cool idea. It is fun. But once you do a few runs you start to kind of see how the gameplay goes. The other dragons they give you are all neat and have new styles in theory but the game itself dosen't really encourage you to play them. The talent tree you use to get some nice permeant boons but most feel not that impactful outside of the damage buffs and most of the damage buffs are to fire moves encouraging you to play the fire dragon above the others. Every dragon type should have…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is very badly put together and I definitely think it was released too early.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Lots of bugs and most importantly the devs completely ignore bug reports and requests for info on when or IF they are working on fixes. Been literally months since anyone heard from them, blocked this dev team and will never give them money again.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm gonna try to stream this evening at around 6pm EST! We'll be playing None Shall Intrude, a new roguelite card game where you play the role of a raid boss dragon! I've already played the game a couple times and it's pretty dang cool! See you there! twitch.tv/spikethegnoll
positive · AI labelView post →I like the concept, they almost get close to a good execution. The premise is good, but the other elemental dragons seem under baked the new boss being added feels like its against the fantasy themes. It feels like if given more time and work it could be really good.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Buggy, clunky. From cards being hidden on top of each other to simply not having a Rage bar, this game has the bones for something fun but not great and is further brought low due to shoddy bug fixes. First game I did after the tutorial I had no Rage bar the entire game (somehow won still), music kept quitting on every boss fight (quitting to menu sometimes helped, but less than half the time)... every time I kept getting into the swing of having fun something happened to take me out of it.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I lost all progress on armament 30 on final boss because of bug. I couldn't end turn. It's fun at the beginning but when after hour of playing and thinking about what is the best move you lose everything it is too much and getting to that point isn't easy either. Imo there is issue with how map is generated, I had runs without any merchants and little to no armies just hero after hero without any way to increase attack
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →To be honest, this isn't a terrible game, but it's definitely not worth $8. It’s a decent enough roulette-style game if it were priced at $1 or $2, but for $8, I’d much rather buy Dead Cells or Hades. The concept is actually quite interesting, but the execution is incredibly clunky. The tutorial is a nightmare. It forces you to click exactly on the dialogue text before you can perform the action it's teaching you. In any other decent game, the text would just progress once you do what you're…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In concept? This is a very cool game. maybe not revolutionary, though the ground effect mechanics are pretty neat. So... why the negative review? Because the game has sh*t performance and many bugs. It launched with poor performance, got an update to fix it, then a content update that made stability worse than at launch.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After spending over 30 hours in the demo before the game's release, I eventually got around to buying the full game -- I figured as bug-filled as it was, I enjoyed it, and deserved to give it a proper review, especially since this subreddit and the Steam discussions are rather sparse, so an in-depth "what the heck is this game" from someone who's now got 60-some hours is deserved. TLDR: Is it worth it? I will echo the criticisms that other people have made: great idea, rough execution. It's a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game, but it has a bunch of save breaking and game breaking bucks. Sadly it seems the developer vanished
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →IF YOU LIKE GAMES THAT CANT BE FINISHED HERE YOU GO... new game plus is not possible because the loot wont show after a boss fight causing it to lock on the reward screen. restarting just puts you at the boss again with the loot not showing up after beating it again. forfeiting ends the game without any progress counting for the normal run through its not bad, but i cant recommend a game that locks you out of half of its content because of a bug.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →to many bugs and soft locks. I have completed one "run" by starting from the tutorial and dying at the final boss. that was the only progression i made. all future runs got locked by the game failing to load, or just stopped responding and I would have to start a new run and attempt to complete it. verifying files shows no errors. uninstalling and reinstalling proves fruitless. there is totally something wrong. game is fun and it really makes you feel powerful. just I hate how I am always…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you love #indiegames give our podcast a shot! This week's episode is about: 💒 Nunholy 🐲 None Shall Intrude ⛷️ Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders 😍 AI2U: With You 'Til The End Find it on your favorite app: bit.ly/IGApodcast #gaming
neutral · AI labelView post →Quite a mess of a pseudo flash game with some strange good ideas. The tutorial is extrabuggy, but after that you will be able to enjoy 5 or 6 runs before getting tired of it. As a free extragame in a bundle is a nice experience, but don't pay full price for it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I completed it 100%. It’s very engaging, but I really wish there were much more content. Larger continents, more locations, and more events would make a big difference. Most cards, items, and abilities seem to be designed mainly for the red dragon, so I’d love to see more variety. There’s also an issue where many dropped items don’t fit a specific build at all and just end up as dead weight with no real use. It would be much more convenient if players could either sell these items or…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →https://youtu.be/_PsUKyR_KzM Despite a compelling setup the elemental mixing is over designed mudding the features that do deliver.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Art is so gorgeous, especially since i enjoy gothic style in art. Music is also impeccable, though its understandable to get bored with it repeating so much when you play longer than an hour. Leveling for not only enemies but also yourself is clean and the choice to limit and make the game harder truly makes it a fun gaming experience for whatever you are feeling for that day. Playing as dragon yourself instead of fighting against one ( as is the norm ) truly makes this game stand out. Im…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I had this game sitting for a while, and when I finally took the time to learn it, it showed promise. However, in its current state, it's more frustrating than fun. The amount of bugs I've encountered are outrageous. My last run had two instances in battle where my cards would not draw, the second time being during the last boss. Backing out of the game and reloading fixes the issue, sort of. It doesn't keep track of the buffs you had, or even current HP, when that happens. Many of the skills…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Managed to 100% the demo for "None Shall Intrude", a new(ish) rogue-lite... So obviously, we're trying out the full game tonight. Join me, in a few hours, and we will build an ALMIGHTY HOARD And remember kids... Always be yourself. Unless you can be a dragon. #NoneShallIntrude #vtuber
positive · AI labelView post →So, conceptually, this is a Dungeon Keeper. You play as a dragon and do roguelite card stuff to beat waves of heroes. Later waves have massively inflated stats, so you need to die a few times to get enough unlocks to clear. In terms of art, does this project use AI? I can't tell. Loads of stuff looks AI gen'd, but AI is also sampled heavily off of asset store stock art. There's some animations and they're fun and decently clever. In a production environment that wasn't slopped full of the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Awful game, I have never encountered a bug that looped within a tutorial, because trying to jump into the main game was not an option. I will never encourage to buy an unfinished game, not even worth to be obtained in a bundle, it's like getting trash with a few other things. Don't buy.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game is amazing. and also contains no tutorial. some of the text would make a hair width seem wide. most of the mouseover tips dont exist. it's not really buggy at all, it's just... not done yet. like idk what the developers say but this game isn't out of alpha yet. so when the developers finish the game i'll likely rate it one of the best games i ever played. until then. well. 15 hours is enough, i think. amazinggg game. or it could be. if you paid for this then you should consider…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →bug in the tutorial that forced me to just skip the first mission. kinda pointless tutorial if i cant actually play it. this game has been out for over a year there is no excuse for this. game is incredibly half-baked, a good proof-of-concept at best
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Still in the tutorial, 5 bugs already encounter. I guess the dev of this game just move on.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →5.5/10 would grab on deep sale - card that says inhale and draw a card, never once drew a card for me
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"None Shall Intrude" is a promising concept; however the execution leaves room for improvement. The elemental combinations were interesting and, in some cases, fun. Despite this, the gameplay became incredibly repetitive. This may seem like an odd statement for a rouge-like game, but after a few hours the game did not feel to be evolving in a meaningful way. Additionally, was the suddenness of the endgame, where you would have to fight the final boss after the third act. Normally, I…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very good deckbuilding rougelite. The different Dragon Aspects, Talents, Boss Mechanics, and elemental card types really help the replay value. Buying decorations for your lair postgame is also a nice touch. I 100% completed the game in just over 14 hours, but I bet it can be done sooner. Armament levels don't have to be done in consecutive order as I jumped from 15 to 40 in an attempt to finish the game faster, which only took me two attempts. While I enjoyed the game and felt like many of the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →sorry daddy dragon I mean sorry daddy dragon oops I mean sorry daddy dragon ♥♥♥♥ um sorry daddy dragon I mean sorry daddy dragon
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm a gamedev myself, and that's the only review you need Short description You play as a dragon. Before each run, you select talents, a dragon (class basically), and difficulty modifiers. Like any boss, you have 3 stages (based on your HP amount) and effects tied to these stages. You aim to conquer the world, building your deck and fighting solo against many enemies. Every few locations you conquer, a hero raids you. When you kill the final hero, you win. Worth highlighting / What is unique…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game released unfinished, with horrible bugs, save corruption issues, your entire deck getting copied, and some of the worst balancing decisions I've ever seen. It was also abandoned some ~4 months after launch for the developer's new project. I'd just avoid purchasing their games, the concept is so cool & I put up with a good few hours of gameplay but it just doesn't function, and like I said, they have flat out moved on, leaving it in an awful state.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →genuinely an awesome game to just mindlessly play while listening to podcasts or other forms of content. not an overtly hard game but has enough difficulties to keep you entangled in it. surprisingly not crazy hard to get every single achievement in the game and I had a blast doing it. not sure why the game has mixed reviews I only had good experiences with the game and everything else so i would say read the reviews then buy it. (I WOULD!) I would say as a solid 6 out of 10 nothing really blew…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Some issues with crashes aside, I'd say the biggest issue with this is that the tech/skill tree is just not as expansive as it could be. Mechanically, the game works and plays amazingly. But the biggest mechanic, is also the one that could be expanded on the most. Especially give the elemental awakening patch, which has a lot of interaction issues. For example, dark aspect grants dark fireballs in initial deck, but any fireball gained afterwards is a normal fireball. Cards need more variations…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While the idea is very nice and the mechanics are competent, the game still feels incomplete due to several behaviors, one of them being that the game only recognizes the first character you may play as during cutscenes and a few other non-playing field screens.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Repetitive, way to easy. And kind of the opposite of what i woud have imagined. You are not a strong dragon. You are a little child despretly trying to suffocate your opponent with a pillow. Its slow, there is no danger. Just boring. Everything feels weak, including the one time use Ultimates.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Today, at 3:00 PM EST, we'll be playing some #NoneShallIntrude! You get to play as a dragon, what more would you want! www.twitch.tv/astralgoldvt [ #ENVtuber #Vtuber ]
neutral · AI labelView post →This has been a wonderful game! Being the evil dragon, all of the different types, cards, artifacts! INCREDIBLE... Until the new patch/version, in which the tooltips are all over the place, they don't keep up with the cards played or worse are not there at all. I'm pretty sure that the maximum cards in the hand is 8, but I can't be sure because is written nowhere! The mode in which you can control a big evil machine and use technology to conquest everything is a great idea, but a bad design:…
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