Bag of Dreams
Bag of Dreams: a cozy roguelike card game, built from concept to release on Steam by two of the owners of TopDevs.
Live on Steam
Release
100+ fragments
Content
One small team
Made by
About Bag of Dreams
Bag of Dreams is a game of our own, released under the name Two Trick Pony. It is a roguelite with deckbuilding: every run you draw cards, look for combinations and decide how much risk you still dare to take. The game runs on Windows and macOS.
The challenge
A deckbuilder is quick to make and rarely good. The genre asks for a big pile of cards that strengthen each other without one combination winning everything, and for a reason to draw one more time while you know it can go wrong. We wanted that feeling in a game that looks soft and friendly. So no dark dungeon, but a night-time dream world, with a rule underneath that does bite.
The analysis
The core is push your luck. Every card you draw can bring you closer to your goal, or be a nightmare that places itself and adds nightmare fuel. Too much of that and your night is over.
Every bag has a win condition of its own. That way you are not playing the same game with different cards each time: what counts as a good turn changes too.
Between rounds you visit the Lucid Exchange. Dust buys new fragments for your bag and dream essence grows your Dream Space, so you keep choosing between going wider and getting better.
The tone had to match the word cozy. The art is round, purple and soft, and the nightmares are scary the way a picture book is.
What we built
The game: draw, place and dare
A roguelite in Unity in which rounds alternate between drawing and placing fragments and a shop phase.
4 parts
- Push your luck at the core of every turn
- Bags with a win condition each
- Nightmares that place themselves and build up nightmare fuel
- Several Dream Spaces with rules of their own
Over a hundred dream fragments
Cards with effects that hook into each other, so every run produces a different combination.
3 parts
- More than a hundred unique fragments
- Effects that grant currency or retrigger other cards
- The Lucid Exchange as the shop between rounds
Art, animation and sound
The game's visuals and audio were made in-house.
3 parts
- Illustrated cards and characters
- Animations for drawing, placing and triggering cards
- Music and sound effects
Website and release on Steam
Everything needed to ship the game.
3 parts
- Website for the game
- Steam page with trailer
- Release on Windows and macOS in March 2026
The blueprint
- 1Game design
- 2Cards & balance
- 3Art & animation
- 4Sound
- 5Release on Steam
Results
Release
Live on Steam
Playable on Windows and macOS since 24 March 2026.
Content
100+ fragments
More than a hundred unique dream fragments and several Dream Spaces.
Made by
One small team
Game design, art, sound and website from the same hands.
Tech & tools
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- 100% code ownership, no lock-in
- Prototypes in days, live in weeks
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