am I STILL me

am I STILL me is a dark fantasy deckbuilder that makes corruption itself the core trade-off. Rather than treating dark power as a simple damage boost, the game builds its entire arc around a single tension: strength requires surrendering pieces of your identity, and the ending you reach depends on how much of yourself you were willing to lose. The release date for am I STILL me is July 14, 2026 on PC.

The deck you build pulls from a pool of over 180 cards, but the real economy is not mana or resources—it is selfhood. Each time you accept a dark pact or corruption, you unlock stronger abilities and synergies, but you also tick toward a threshold. Cross it and the story does not end in victory; it ends in transformation. The game is betting that players will feel the weight of that choice in a way a simple stat penalty cannot. A card that costs health or mana is forgettable; a card that costs your sense of who you are reads differently, even in turn-based battles.

The Bargain at the Heart of the Roguelite

Turn-based deckbuilding roguelites are now crowded territory, but am I STILL me is positioning itself not on mechanical novelty but on narrative consequence. Synergy and adaptation—the usual pillars of the genre—are still there: you exploit status effects, chain cards, build toward combinations. The difference is that the meta-progression that would normally stay in the deckbuilding layer bleeds into the story. Your corruption level is not a score; it is a countdown to an ending.

This is a bold constraint. Most roguelites separate the build layer from the narrative layer; you get mechanically richer while the story stays static across runs. am I STILL me appears to be merging them. How well that works depends entirely on whether the studio can make corruption feel like a meaningful choice and not a false one—whether the game actually allows you to pursue a low-corruption path that is still viable, or whether it nudges you toward the dark bargains by making them mathematically necessary. If corruption is cosmetic flavor draped over inevitable power creep, the whole hook collapses. If it is a genuine fork in the road, even within a single run, the game has a chance at something memorable.

Release Date and Platforms

am I STILL me releases on July 14, 2026 for PC. The game is in early access as of now, approaching its full 1.0 launch. The exact scope—campaign length, number of unique runs, total card depth—is not yet detailed, so much remains unproven about pacing and replayability at scale.

This is for players drawn to deckbuilding systems where choice and consequence intertwine, and who can stomach a story that may not end in triumph. Skip it if you want a clean power fantasy or if turn-based card synergy does not engage you. The single honest question the game must answer is whether corruption as a mechanic sustains tension for an entire run, or whether it becomes background flavor once you have locked in your archetype.