Teufelskreis is an interesting one that's built on Linux with Godot. An occult roulette roguelike deckbuilder about gambling your way out of job contract.
Emailing into GamingOnLinux about it the developer noted that the game was entirely built on Linux (CachyOS), so it's a first-class platform for it. They're also regularly testing it on a Steam Deck too. In Teufelskreis you place wagers and play tarot cards to manipulate their outcomes, while a possessed corporate AI bets against you and corrupts the table, forcing you to meet each quota before your spins - or you might just end up dying.
Some screenshots:
Bet. Spin. Survive.
You're not just playing the odds. Something is playing against you.
Every spin, the machine places a wager of its own. A color, a number, a whole column, or something worse. It means to collect. Spend to overwrite its bet before the ball drops, or gamble that it misses. Guess wrong, and it gets paid.
Build a deck that shouldn't work & hunt rule bending artifacts
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Draft a card after every encounter and shape your run around what you find.
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Spend between rounds to buy, upgrade, and cut dead weight from your deck.
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Hunt & unlock rule-bending artifacts. Permanent objects that change how you bet, spin, earn, and survive.
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Stack effects until a single spin spirals into an impossible turn.
Chart your route through the Contract
Between tables, choose your path across a shifting map: safer encounters, dangerous elites for bigger rewards, hidden treasures, and rest stops to sharpen your deck before the next clause comes due.
The wheel isn't the whole game
Step away from the table and into the place around it. Solve its riddles, unlock what's hidden, and uncover what's really running through the machine.
The developer also mentioned that it features an original soundtrack by Alex Peipman, composer of Buckshot Roulette and the recently released MACHINE PARTY.
No word on a real date just yet - one to stick on your wishlist.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Last edited by Eike on 12 Aug 2026 at 7:22 am UTC
Quoting: EikeTeufelskreis, German, literally Devil's Circle, figuratively Viscous CircleI think you mean "vicious", although a viscous circle sounds fun too.
Quoting: tuubi😆Quoting: EikeTeufelskreis, German, literally Devil's Circle, figuratively Viscous CircleI think you mean "vicious", although a viscous circle sounds fun too.
Thanks, corrected!
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Teufelskreis will fit nicely into my before bed gaming itinerary. I will be interested to see how the developer has configured the layout for the controller on the Steam Deck.
Built using CachyOS with the Godot game engine by a independent game developer who also publishes the game... That checks all the boxes for me! This game is an instant buy upon release.
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