# ARCANA NIL — Read the novel. Break its law. > Read the novel. Break its law. (iPhone/iPad app by SHINOBU MIYAHIRA.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/arcana-nil/id6807625604 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [SHINOBU MIYAHIRA](https://appshunter.io/developer/6782739570) - Category: Games, Books, Adventure, Strategy - Price: $4.99 - Age rating: 9+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 229 MB - Languages: American English, Japanese - Released: 2026-09-08 - Data updated: 2026-10-15 ## What is ARCANA NIL? Read the novel. Judge the map. Break the enemy's law with cards. A single-player card RPG in twenty chapters. ■ You cannot win by draining HP alone Major bosses follow their own laws. Spam the same card and it learns, halving your damage. Read its intent, choose between guard, counter, stance-break, rewrite and sacrifice, and satisfy the victory clauses in order. You win by procedure, not by numbers. ■ The same journey, fought differently You may take at most two growth paths: Bellward (defense), Ashbreaker (breaking), Memory Scribe (rewriting). What you decline matters as much as what you take, chapters later. ■ Prose changes the right answer on the map Each chapter gives you a town with finite resources and a choice: detour or go straight. Testimony you read opens hidden routes; the preparation you buy changes how the boss fights. Story and strategy run on one line, not two. ■ Twenty chapters, three endings From Chapter 1, "The Bell That Burned the Dawn," to the last, twenty chapters share one history. In the final chapter you choose three meanings from the previous nineteen and face the oldest protagonist, reaching Written Peace, Ash Freedom, or Unwritten Dawn. You can revisit your permanent choice and see another ending. ■ Also a book Each chapter opens with original prose, included in full. Adjust text size, line spacing and color, keep a bookmark, and step straight from the page into the chapter. All twenty chapters are included in both English and Japanese. ■ Music with an enemy identity Eighteen original tracks, each written with a different meter, mode and instrumentation for its enemy. ■ Buy it once - No in-app purchases - No gacha or loot boxes - No advertising - No stamina timers or login bonuses - No account required - No network access at all, so it plays in airplane mode One payment unlocks all twenty chapters and all three endings from the start. ■ Read the formation in landscape Keep both HP displays and End Turn in view. Eligible regular encounters offer optional three- and five-enemy formations. Decide whether to stop the sealing unit, a guard, or a charging caster first. Requires iPhone with iOS 17.0 or later. Landscape only. English and Japanese. ## Is ARCANA NIL safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess ARCANA NIL. ## Is ARCANA NIL legit? ARCANA NIL appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for ARCANA NIL is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 4 releases) ### 1.2.0 — 2026-09-10 A new landscape-only battlefield. - See enemy portraits, HP, upcoming actions, and End Turn together. - Refreshed enemy artwork with clearer identities and combat roles. - Optional three- and five-enemy formations in eligible regular encounters. Break their protection links and choose your targets carefully. - Improved attack, defense, counterattack, and battle audio presentation. - Refined Japanese and English layouts, larger text support, and save continuity. The 20-chapter story and novel remain fully offline, with no additional purchases. ### 1.1.0 — 2026-09-09 - Added an optional rescue in Chronicle 2: The Gate That Borrowed Fire. Face two linked enemies and share your magic between cards and aid from Mara or a paper fox. - Lend your flame shield to the gate or keep it for combat. Choose its new memory after the rescue. Repairers helped during the journey can strengthen your preparations in Chronicles 7 and 14. Completed saves can revisit this new margin without changing their ending. - Added illustrated postal-road stories across Chronicles 2, 7 and 14, with a journal in the world atlas. - Preview your HP after the enemy response and rehearse up to three cards without spending them. - Improved attack, guard, counter and interruption feedback, enemy health displays, growth presentation and battle audio transitions. - Fixed the Pilgrim Pauldron's protection and other battle details. Existing progress is preserved. - Restored the weakened-status readout and improved atlas touch areas, sea-route explanations and pinned chapter-progress controls in Chronicles 18 and 19. ### 1.0.1 — 2026-09-08 - Redesigned battle controls to keep your HP, enemy HP, energy, enemy intent and primary actions easy to check. Card details and battle records are available in a separate reference view. - Improved attack, guard and healing feedback, and added chapter-opening presentation that clarifies your objective. - Refreshed the Chapter 1 exploration map and world atlas. Compare detour benefits and bell pressure before departing, and travel through known safe roads with fewer steps. - Fixed the touch area of the world atlas card at the chapter ending. - Fixed a progression block in Chapter 15 that could occur depending on your Chapter 13 choice. Deal cards without a witness can now be submitted anyway, at a cost: the Last Dealer keeps one more ash card. - Chapter 17: when Mara cannot step in, an attack card the hound never copied now breaks the copy. - Chapter 20: if fewer than three meanings were earned, an "unwritten blank" now fills the table so the finale can begin (true-ending requirements are unchanged). - Chapter 5: if no testimony survived, you can now descend to the core without a witness. - Fixed rewards that never applied in battle: the Unchosen Self testimony and the enemy-intent reductions earned in Chapters 8, 9, 12 and 13. - Fixed some enemies returning with different stats after a retry. - Fixed progression buttons disappearing off-screen at the largest text sizes on the title, opening, story and battle screens. - Smoother battles and reading: artwork is now cached and downsampled, and reading position is saved without stalling the scroll. ### 1.0 — 2026-09-08 No release notes. ## More apps by SHINOBU MIYAHIRA - [清掃レポート](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/id6782739568) - [Cat Kidney Log: CKD Care Diary](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cat-kidney-log-ckd-care-diary/id6787291853) - [SubRing - Subscription Tracker](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/subring-subscription-tracker/id6787335617) - [Dog Heart Log - Breath Counter](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dog-heart-log-breath-counter/id6787337643) - [BanshakuCard](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/banshakucard/id6787436992) - [Daily Extra!](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/daily-extra/id6787540857) All apps by SHINOBU MIYAHIRA: https://appshunter.io/developer/6782739570 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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