The Apocrypha Adventure Card Game allows you to play it as a cooperative card game, or with a game master as a role playing game. The world is on the brink of an apocalypse, set in motion by monsters only your characters can see. Gameplay is story-based, and features deck construction and character growth. Over time, characters will unlock repressed memory fragments that will add new powers. Each mission has a unique setup and goal, which often involves hunting down a true threat hiding among the cards at the nexuses that characters investigate.
The base game, called The World, comes with 584 cards, 20 six-sided dice, 1 rulebook, 1 storybook, 30 dividers, and 10 character stand-up tokens; The World contains the starting chapter of Candlepoint, Wisconsin, and also the Skinwalkers chapter. Eight more chapters appear in two expansions, The Flesh and The Devil
The Flesh contains four chapters, each containing cards that detail memories written by a legendary author. This box contains:
- The Book of the Deathless, in which an oil town in frozen Alberta is invaded by the risen dead, with memories by Bruce R. Cordell.
- The Book of the Fae, in which the faeries and bikers of the Wild Hunt roar across the American Midwest, with memories by Jerry “Tycho” Holkins.
- The Book of the Golems, in which the tech hub of Seattle is overrun with drones and robots, with memories by Teeuwynn Woodruff.
- The Book of the Physicians, in which the eastern seaboard is the test market for virulent designer diseases, with memories by Kris Straub.
The Devil contains four chapters, each containing cards that detail memories written by a legendary author. This box contains:
- The Book of the Animus, in which the New Orleans bayou is threatened by the great spirit of nature, with memories by Kij Johnson.
- The Book of the Damned, in which Las Vegas is overrun with demons and angels preying on the weak-willed tourists, with memories by Erin M. Evans.
- The Book of the Dreamers, in which the cities of New England are invaded by twisted nightmares, with memories by Keith Baker.
- The Book of the Serpents, in which the ancient ruins of Mexico are unearthed by snake worshippers searching for the last dragon, with memories by Wolfgang Baur.