Beyond the Gray Fog · Occult Poker

About Beyond the Gray Fog: a Lord of the Mysteries fan-made poker roguelike

Beyond the Gray Fog (灰雾之上) is an unofficial, fan-made single-player poker roguelike set in the world of Lord of the Mysteries. It plays like Balatro-style poker deck-builders: score with familiar poker hands, chain Occult card effects into bigger and bigger scores, and take on bosses with special rules. It runs right in your browser: free, no download, no sign-up.

How to play

• Score with poker hands. You start with a standard 52-card deck, 8 cards in hand, and 4 hands and 3 discards per round. Play 1–5 cards at a time; each poker hand scores Chips × Mult, and you clear the round by reaching its target score before you run out of hands. Hands range from High Card to Straight Flush, and a reshaped deck can also make Five of a Kind, Flush House and Flush Five.
• Combine Occult cards. You start with 5 Occult slots. Occult cards you buy stay on the table and add Chips, add Mult or bend the rules when their conditions are met. They resolve from left to right, so changing their order changes your score. The full collection holds 150 Occult cards, and 234 cards in all once you count Hand Studies, Tarot Rites, Forbidden Rites and Pacts.
• Shop at the Gray Fog Market. After every round you win, spend coins on Occult cards, Hand Studies, one-shot Rites, packs and Pacts, or sell old cards and reroll the shelves. A Hand Study levels up its poker hand as soon as you buy it and keeps it stronger for the rest of the run.
• Climb the Sequences. Your hero starts at Sequence 9 and advances toward Sequence 0 as you defeat bosses. Each promotion raises your Mult, and higher Sequences can retrigger scoring cards.
• Beat the bosses. There are 8 antes, each made of a Small Blind, a Big Blind and a Boss Blind. Every boss has one special rule that is shown before the fight. Defeat the Ante 8 boss and you can keep going in Endless mode.

The game is completely free, with no account and no in-app purchases. Your run and personal records are saved automatically in this browser; nothing is uploaded to a server, and progress does not sync across devices. You can play in English, Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese and switch with the language menu at the top of the game without losing your run.

This page is also available in Chinese: 灰雾之上（简体中文版） and 灰霧之上（繁體中文版）. The original minion-battle version is kept at /classic/; it is in Chinese only and uses a separate save.

FAQ

Do I need to download anything or create an account?

No. Open this page in a desktop or mobile browser and start playing. It is free and there is no account.

Is my progress saved?

Yes. Your run, shop purchases and personal records are saved automatically in this browser's local storage. They do not follow you to another browser or device, and clearing site data removes them; there is no cloud sync yet.

Can I play on my phone?

Yes. The layout adapts to narrow screens; a desktop browser gives you more room to follow each step of the scoring.

Is this Balatro?

No. Balatro is a separate commercial game, and this site has no connection to it. Beyond the Gray Fog is an independent fan game in the same poker roguelike genre, with its own cards, bosses and rules themed on Lord of the Mysteries.

Is this an official Lord of the Mysteries game?

No. Beyond the Gray Fog is an unofficial fan-made project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the original author, the publishers or any licensed Lord of the Mysteries game. Card illustrations were created with AI image-generation tools; no official artwork is used.