The free world-history card game

A world of history. Your next chapter.

Choose a Leader from history, build a 40-card deck and battle in your browser. Real people and real events, painted card by card, in a story about a crystal that cracked time.

Play free nowHow to play

• Free to play
• Phone, tablet or computer
• No download
• Ages 7+

Set 2 · The Norse world

Runes & Ravens

Sail north into the age of longships, rune stones, forges and ravens. Runes & Ravens is the second chapter of Lost Chapters, with new cards in every color, new Leaders and a whole new painted world.

• Arcade 2v2, a team mode for two teams of two, arrives with the set.
• A new Chronicler's Pass season starts the day it launches.
• The whole game turns Norse: home screen, challenges, store and pack shop.

Arrives December 1, 20269 AM Eastern · free for everyone

Play Set 1 nowWhat we know so far

Lost Chapters is a free world-history collectible card game. Choose a Leader, build a 40-card deck, and follow a growing adventure across cultures and eras. Play against the AI or other players in your browser on phone, tablet or computer.

Your journey begins with Liberty & Lightning, the American-history set featuring inventors, explorers, pirates and reformers. Runes & Ravens takes the next chapter into the Norse world. Each set brings its own setting, stories and artwork to the same game.

Real people, places and events meet legends and an invented story about a crystal that cracked time. Historical notes identify the sources; the travelers, Echoes and world of Marginalia belong to the fiction.

Lead with a legend

Each Leader has a passive ability, a once-per-match Command and three Signature cards. Meet all six Leaders.

• Nikola TeslaGold Leader
• Martin Luther King Jr.Cobalt Leader
• Neil ArmstrongCobalt Leader
• Amelia EarhartEmerald Leader
• BlackbeardGarnet Leader
• George WashingtonQuartz Leader

Five colors, five ways to play

• GoldInventors & Industry
• CobaltThinkers & Dreamers
• EmeraldFrontier & Explorers
• GarnetRebels, Pirates & War
• QuartzFounders & Revolution

Browse every card in Set 1, or read the keyword glossary.

Ways to play

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  Duels and ranked

  Face the AI on Easy, Normal or Hard, climb the ranked ladder, or challenge a friend in a private room.

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  Free-for-All

  Tables for 3 to 5 players. Pick your targets, survive the crossfire and be the last Leader standing.

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  Weekly Bosses

  A new boss every week that bends the rules and shows its next move. Read it, then break it.

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  Rift Run

  A roguelike dive through eight floors with a small deck, picking up cards and relics as you go.

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  Draft

  Build a fresh deck one pick at a time, then play it. Draft guide.

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  The First Chapter

  A guided campaign that teaches the game in about five minutes, then the Chronicle story mode.

More to play for

Every season

The Chronicler's Pass

Fifty levels of rewards every season, earned just by playing. The free track is for everyone. The premium track (950 gems) adds packs, wildcards, gold, some gems back and the season's own cosmetics.

See the pass rewards

Between the sets

Mini drops

About 15 Full Art cards in an art style the main sets never use, celebrating the parts of life history books skip. Earn them in the Gauntlet, or get the whole drop in the store.

How Mini drops work

The store

Bundles and the Featured page

Companions, card sleeves, battle boards, banners and titles, gathered into bundles. A new Featured page every Monday and a daily deal. Everything in the store is cosmetic.

Browse the bundles

From The Archive Dispatch

• How Did Blackbeard Die? The Battle at Ocracoke Inlet, 1718October 20, 2026
• The Real Story of Wardenclyffe Tower, Tesla's Lost DreamOctober 16, 2026
• Dev Diary: Why We Made a History Card GameOctober 13, 2026

Join the community

Swap decks, ask questions and say hello to other players. Join the Discord

For teachers and parents

The developer recommends Lost Chapters for ages 7 and up. Players under 13 need parental consent for an online account. Spending limits and parental controls help families manage play. Read the guides for teachers and parents, or the FAQ.