Choose
Your hand is not a random result: it is the set of possibilities you chose to keep.
Anime tabletop RPG · 52 cards · no dice
Be reborn. Choose your power.Live your isekai story.
In Gates of Krystalia, the Vital Energy deck is your energy. Every card you play is a possibility you spend, a risk you accept and a choice that reveals who your hero will become.
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Your energyYour next choice
The heart of the system
Your deck is your energy.
You do not ask chance whether you can be extraordinary. You decide when to use your resources, when to save them and how far you are willing to push. Played cards become Fatigue: reach the end of the deck and you collapse.
Spend
Every card you play fuels the action and becomes Fatigue. The more you dare, the closer you move to your limit.
React
A clash is not a turn you simply endure: defenses and counterattacks can change the scene.
Combine
A Primary Card and support cards build combinations that can make a Technique unforgettable.
Easy to begin, rich to customize: depth comes from decisions, not from a wall of rules.
Fast, reactive combat
Every attack opens a response.
Declare your Technique, choose the Primary Card and build the moment with support cards. But your opponent can react and rewrite the outcome of the action.
- 01Declare the Technique
- 02Choose your card
- 03Face the reaction
- 04Complete the combo
“You do not wait for the die to decide for you. You decide.”
Your isekai begins with a choice
You do not play an archetype. You are reborn as your hero.
Start with an immediate idea and let it grow as far as you want. Gates of Krystalia gives you a clear framework without taking away the freedom to create someone who truly feels like yours.
Be reborn with an identity
Race, class and Innate define where you come from and which power you carry into the new world.
Build your style
Techniques, skills and blessed suits turn your choices into a personal way of acting.
Grow within the story
Bonds, consequences and new abilities let the hero evolve alongside the campaign.
Choose your first portal
Enter the world at your own pace.
Try a mission, build your first campaign or go further with new rules and worlds. There is no single right way to begin.
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A first ready-to-play mission that reveals the rhythm of Gates of Krystalia without endless preparation.
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Core Rulebook
The complete rules for creating heroes, crossing the Gates and building your own adventures.
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Last Deux
Advanced rules and tools that expand the Deux and bring more depth to your campaigns.
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Lumina
An expansion devoted to the first fantasy world of Gates of Krystalia, created together with the community.
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Beyond the first Gate
Eleven worlds. One school. Endless stories.
From Lumina to cosmic arenas, from feudal Japan to cyberpunk: every Gate changes genre, rhythm and atmosphere. Last Deux also opens the doors to school life, with clubs, relationships and mysteries.
01Fantasy isekai
Lumina
The heart of the multiverse: kingdoms, magic, Gates and a second life to build.
02Alchemical steampunk
Alchimera
Copper towers, golden airships and alchemy transformed into science.
03Cosmic tournaments
Astro-Arena
Multiversal champions and zero-gravity arenas where every challenge becomes a spectacle.
04Elemental feudal world
Edo-X
Samurai, clans and technological yokai in a land scarred by water scarcity.
05Organic survival
Gaia Prime
Living jungles, intelligent predators and a natural world that evolves with you.
06Sky pirates
Marea Eterna
Flying ships and leviathans cross an ocean without borders.
07Post-apocalyptic mecha
Mecha-Genesis
Fortress cities, kaiju and pilots psychically bonded to their machines.
08Realm of twilight
Necronis
Guardians of the thresholds defend the fragile balance between life and death.
09Metropolitan superheroes
Neo-Aether
Resonances, secret identities and battles above a vertical city.
10Spiritual urban fantasy
Spiralia
Yokai and modern exorcists live between Tokyo and its invisible reflection.
11Cyberpunk
Syn-Core
Hackers, megacorporations and glitches rewrite the boundary of reality.
12Last Deux · Slice of life
Last Deux
Clubs, festivals, relationships and mysteries: everyday life can open a new Gate.
Every portal changes the world. Your choices remain at the center.
From the table to the community
A world already lived by other heroes.
Independent reviews and an international community describe what images cannot prove: how Gates of Krystalia truly feels when the cards reach the table.
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3 scored reviews highlighted
93%An accessible system built around the tension of the cards and decisions that always remain visible at the table.
Throat Punch Games 8,3/10A fast and engaging system, with combat built through cards and room to expand the experience.
GameScore 8/10An interactive anime experience where the Vital Energy deck supports pace, risk and character identity.
Serial GamerWhen it helps, never when it distracts
The table remains the heart. The web app makes room for it.
Create heroes, prepare sessions and organize play. Digital tools support Gates of Krystalia, while the story continues to live between people.
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Real questions. Answers born at the table.
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How to start playing Gates of Krystalia
A demo, one standard poker deck for every participant and a group ready to cross its first Gate: the simplest way to begin.
Read the guideThe threshold is open
The next story is not something you have to watch. You can live it.
Gather the group. Give every participant their own deck. Discover who will be reborn on the other side.