The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood

An enchanting, emotionally charged visual novel with a new take on deck-building and tarot divination.

A splendid, engrossing blend of visual novel and card creation game, where the cards you create are the means of navigating dialogue and pursuing a story about outcast witches, their griefs, lusts and more destructive tendencies.

The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood is the latest game from Red Strings Club and Essays on Empathy developer Deconstructeam. Five years in the making, it’s also the artful indie studio’s most ambitious. Your journey follows Fortuna, a witch that was exiled to an asteroid hurtling through space. Her crime? Using her aptitude in tarot, predicting the downfall of her coven. Already the table is set for an impactful and ever-changing narrative journey. It’s what it does with those ideas that a...

The Tarot deckbuilding aspect is present and correct here, but the wide variety of Witches and the way their stories intertwine is where The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood really shines. Every being that you encounter has a purpose in this story, and all the threads twist together to make a truly beautiful tapestry. Being locked down narrative paths without the ability to return might not be for everyone, but it's a moot point when the story is this good — every playthrough will feel like a brand-new experience.

The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood is an amazing narrative journey exploring fate, politics, isolation, friendship and more, filled with a stellar cast and great writing and music, but the tarot card creation is what will easily have players addicted for hours, and the way it ties into the main story is done superbly. It makes for a truly unique adventure game that's not to be missed out on, especially for those looking to get creative, go nuts and craft the motorcycle wolf card of their dreams.

The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood crafts a story that encapsulates the feelings of being restricted while nudging players towards a place that may feel uncomfortable yet relatable. It is a story worth experiencing as choices begin to matter and fate rests in your hands.

Have you ever had your fortune told? I have, and the results were… hilariously mixed. From tarot readings from my school friends just learning to the craft (which lead to wildly outlandish results), to a self-professed genuine medium who read my palm (which turned out to be scarily accurate), to having my fortune told from a “real professional psychic” (who got absolutely everything wrong), there’s a lot of fun and mystique to trying to learn what the future has in store for us. But w...

Immerse yourself in an enchanting narrative experience as Fortuna, a fortune-teller Witch condemned to exile on her asteroid home. Craft your own Tarot deck, regain your freedom, and shape the fate of the cosmic Witch society. PC version reviewed.

The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood is an incredible story-driven experience that shines through its choices, depth, and how well it performs on Steam Deck.

If you’re after something casual to engage with that respects your time, offers you an intriguing story and lets you flex some creative muscles, then The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood is a narrative journey worth embarking on.

I played through The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood once, but it’s clear that it’s a game with a lot of different paths and outcomes. Though fate may be determined, The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood’s ever-branching story has many conclusions.

In an interview with Screen Rant two years ago, Deconstructeam’s Jordi de Paco mentioned how, “…if we present a situation or a question that the player needs less than five seconds to go through, it’s not worth adding.” The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood features this design ethos in full force, with countless circumstances prompting pause and the story’s apparent mutability rewarding attentive play, even when none of the fortunes or dialogue options seem up to player preference. Everything, from how Fortuna chooses to compensate Ábramar for their magical assistance to the destinies of the witches sh...