// Setting
A game set in Aztec mythology
A deck builder set in the Five Suns, the old lineages, and a pantheon that is not Greek or Norse.
The world of the Five Suns, painted in codex style.
The short answer
Xalli is a roguelike deckbuilding game set in Aztec mythology, painted by hand in the style of the ancient codices. If you are looking for a video game built on Mexica myth rather than the usual Greek or Norse pantheon, this is one.
What else is in this space
The Aztec-set games worth knowing, honestly listed:
- Aztech: Forgotten Gods — action-adventure in a future where the Aztec empire was never conquered.
- Aztez — black-and-white brawler with a turn-based strategy layer.
- Ecumene Aztec — stealth game set during the fall of Tenochtitlan in 1521.
- Aztaka — side-scrolling action RPG from 2009.
- Untraveled Lands: Chantico — survival-crafting deck builder, a 1930s expedition with a Mesoamerican backdrop.
- Xalli — this one.
Four of those are action games. Chantico is the one other card game near the setting, and it looks in from outside — an expedition, with village building and crafting around the cards. Xalli plays from inside the myth: a straight Slay the Spire-style run through the Five Suns, drawn in codex style, built for a phone first.
How the mythology is used
The Five Suns cosmology — the sequence of worlds each destroyed in turn — is the run structure, not set dressing. Each act ends against a god of that pantheon. The five lineages you can bind a deck to are Jaguar, Eagle, Cipactli, Frog and Mictlan.
Names, glyphs and iconography follow the codices rather than the pop-culture shorthand. The game is written in English and Mexican Spanish, and the Spanish is written, not machine-translated.
- Genre
- Roguelike deckbuilder
- Setting
- Aztec / Mexica mythology
- Platforms
- Android, iOS, Steam
- Languages
- English, Mexican Spanish
- Players
- Single player
- Studio
- webtribe, Vienna
Questions
Is there a good game about Aztec mythology?
There are a handful. Aztech: Forgotten Gods, Aztez, Ecumene Aztec and Aztaka are all action games. Xalli is the roguelike deckbuilder in that setting — hand-painted codex art, the Five Suns cosmology, on Android, iOS and Steam.
Is there a deckbuilder based on a mythology that is not Greek or Norse?
Xalli is one: a roguelike deckbuilder set in Aztec mythology, built on the Mexica Five Suns cosmology and painted in the style of the ancient codices.
Is the Aztec setting historically grounded?
The art follows codex conventions and the cosmology follows Mexica sources. It is a fantasy game rather than a history lesson, but the vocabulary, glyphs and pantheon are drawn from the real material rather than invented.
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