Square Enix revealed that Voice of Cards: The Beasts of Burden, an all-new title and third addition to the unique Voice of Cards card-based RPG franchise, is launching digitally for the Nintendo Switch system, PlayStation 4 (PS4) console, and PC via Steam on September 13th, 2022. Told entirely through the medium of cards, Voice of Cards: The Beasts of Burden is a standalone experience that newcomers and fans of the previous iterations, Voice of Cards: The Isle Dragon Roars and Voice of Cards: The Forsaken Maiden, can enjoy.
Voice of Cards: The Beasts of Burden brings players to an illustrated world presented through the medium of cards as the third release in the Voice of Cards franchise, now giving players the ability to trap the monsters they defeat in cards to use them as skills in battle. Follow a new tale set in a world where a millennia of hatred rages between monsters and humans, and a girl who loses her home swears revenge on monsters. She joins hands with a mysterious boy as they set out into the unknown and unravel the fate of this broken world.
A young girl, who has lost her home, joins hands with a mysterious boy and sets off into the unknown.
Join them on their journey in #VoiceOfCards: The Beasts of Burden, arriving on Switch, PS4 and Steam on September 13. pic.twitter.com/rTfzD2RxNN
— Square Enix (@SquareEnix) September 2, 2022
This truly unique gaming experience brings back the creative minds behind the previous Voice of Cards games, beloved NieR series, and Drakengard series, including Creative Director, YOKO TARO (Drakengard series, NieR series), Music Director, Keiichi Okabe (Drakengard 3, NieR series) and Character Designer, Kimihiko Fujisaka (Drakengard series).
Fans of YOKO TARO can purchase a Digital Deluxe Edition set, which includes the Voice of Cards: The Beasts of Burden game and several DLC items styled after the award-winning mobile RPG, NieR Re[in]carnation, including:
- Decoration of Those in the Cage – New costumes for the game’s heroine and her companions
- Handbook Pattern – Card reverse patterned after an expert handbook
- Mama Avatar – Avatar designed patterned after Mama
- Story Collectors’ Dice – Dice patterned after Mother and Carrier
- The Cage Board – Board and accessories patterned after the Cage
- Aid Table – Table patterned after the random draw screen
- Melody of reincarnation – A soundtrack that brings to mind a certain tale of the girl and the monster
- Pixel Art Set – Replaces all character and enemy illustrations with pixel art
#VoiceOfCards: The Beasts of Burden is set in an illustrated world where a millennia of hatred rages between monsters and humans.
Will you unravel the fate of this broken world?
Coming to Switch, PS4 and Steam on September 13. pic.twitter.com/BDDlFiBiAm
— Square Enix (@SquareEnix) September 1, 2022
Voice of Cards: The Beasts of Burden will be available digitally for the Nintendo Switch system, PS4 console, and PC via Steam on September 13th, 2022. Pre-orders are now available for Nintendo Switch and Steam. Players who purchase the game now through October 3rd, 2022, will receive the “Iron Avatar” DLC which unlocks an avatar design with a lustrous iron color, and the “Somber Girl’s Abstract Pattern” DLC which unlocks a card with the reverse patterned after the back view of the game’s heroine as early purchase rewards.
