Card Crawl fans should check out Donsol - another new card-based dungeon crawler for iOS

If you've been playing Card Crawl as of late you may also want to check out Donsol.

It's a dungeon crawler played with a standard 54 poker card set. Jokers included.

It works out like this:

• Diamonds are shields
• Hearts are potions
• Spades are monsters
• Clubs and Jokers are also monsters

On top of that, red cards are beneficial to you and black cards are harmful. You start with 21 health points and cannot exceed that. Lastly, you can only drink one health potion per room.

So, how it works is you draw four cards from the pack and then equip shields, defeat monsters, and slurp down health potions.

The goal is to get through the whole deck alive. So, yeah, it's a lot like Card Crawl.

This isn't a copycat trying to jump on that game's success, though, although it may look like that.

Donsol was actually created by John Eternal and Aliceffekt (Oquonie, Hiversaires) during the Train Jam before GDC, from March 10th to March 12th, and without an internet connection.

"It seems like Donsol's gameplay accidentally ended up being a twist to Zach Gage and Kurt Bieg's Scoundrel, designed in 2011," writes its creators.

They also acknowledge the similarities to Card Crawl but weren't aware of the game until after creating Donsol.

You can purchase Donsol for 79p / 99c on the App Store right now. Its website explains more about it.