Shroom and Gloom Combat: Fatal Hits and Eating Enemies

Intents are visible before they happen

Every enemy in the official battle screenshots carries a bubble: a red blade with a number for the damage it is about to deal, or a blue shield with a number for the block it is about to gain. A multi-strike enemy shows the blade repeated with its own numbers — one screenshot has a stack reading 1, 3 and 5.

There is no hidden information to guess at. The whole turn is a solvable arithmetic problem: total incoming damage versus your health, and their remaining health versus what your hand can produce.

FATAL is the keyword that changes how you play

ROAST costs 1 energy and reads: “Deal 12 damage. If FATAL, make TOASTY.” The payout is conditional on the hit killing the target. That inverts the normal deckbuilder instinct — overkilling with your biggest attack wastes nothing mechanically, but killing with the wrong card wastes the corpse.

Since roasted enemies are how you heal, and how you get pot ingredients, “which card lands the last hit” is a real decision every fight.

The other printed keywords

TOASTY — the state a roasted corpse ends up in; the eating loop runs through it.
LODGED — a card state referenced by CLOSE FRIEND, which also applies 3 SPELL WEAKNESS.
SPELL WEAKNESS — a stacking debuff, applied in threes by that card.
EVOLVE — a frame tag on cards that can be grown further. CLOSE FRIEND carries it.

Enemy health is a range, not a ladder

Read off the official screenshots: a five-enemy cave fight runs 10, 32, 18, 22 and 12 health, while the boss chamber holds a 90 health boss flanked by four 5 health adds. Two enemies in the cave fight were holding 3 block. The enemies page lays all of that out in a table.

Difficulty scales with depth, not with your deck

This one is worth pinning down because demo players got it wrong. A player wrote that buffing cards seemed to make every enemy sprout thorns and spell negates. Team Lazerbeam replied on the Steam forum that this “isn’t how the game works at all” — enemies get harder the deeper you go, and the game is not reading your deck and responding to it.

So a difficulty wall means you went deeper, not that you built too well. Build harder, not more timidly.

Card list — the transcribed card text these rules come from.
Builds — the growth levers that make fatal-triggered lines reliable.
Enemies and bosses — health, intents and what the screenshots show.

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