Trickcal: Chibi Go

Trickcal: Chibi Go is an auto battler fantasy role-playing game with card collecting elements in which combat is divided into two parts: the “team build" phase in which the player selects cards to strengthen their party, and the “battle" phase utilizing auto-chess mechanics. The player can manually activate characters' "senior skill" abilities during this phase.

Trickcal is characterized by its level of interactivity with characters on-screen. At any point, players can pull a character's cheeks, such as in stories, menu screens, and during dedicated animations with accompanying voice lines. The game also features daily tasks.

Trickcal: Chibi Go is set in the world of Elias, a fantastical realm inhabited by chibi characters who live under the protection of a world tree named Yggdrasil. The player is a human transported to Elias who is shortly appointed the leader of a religious organization called the Order of Yggdrasil. The main story chronicles the adventures of the "Master" and their attempts to solve the conflicts that arise between the different races of Elias, which include sprites, werebeasts, elves, elementals, phantoms, dragons, and witches.

The story is divided into the main story (the chapters of which are unlocked via the "Crusade" campaign mode), side stories for other game modes, and limited-time "Themed Theater" story arcs that each focus on a specific playable character.

Development began in 2019 under the name Roll the Chess; a beta was released the same year, which was negatively received and considered a failure by developer EPIDGames. However, the cheek-pulling interactions with the characters were praised. Therefore, the decision was made to remake the game with the chibi art style and cheek-pulling mechanic as a core aspect. The prototype of the game named Trickcal was first released on September 27, 2021.

Due to the incomplete state of the game, with bugs such as payment errors and login failures, it was taken offline after just two hours. 08) to raise funds. diyap, the lead artist and art director, left EPIDGames in early 2022 owing to health problems. The game was re-released in South Korea as Trickcal: Re:VIVE on September 27, 2023.

The original 2021 release saw 50,000 concurrent players but negative reception, with comments like "the cheek-pulling was the only positive thing in the game".

The 2023 version of the game was well-received by players, and topped the list of "Korean mobile games we would love to see get a global launch" published by Pocket Gamer in 2024. It generated $4.5 million in the first year of the game's release. By August 2025, the Korean version of the game was downloaded 500,000 times, and had a five-star rating out of 35,000 reviews on Google Play Store. By April 9, 2026, the game was the fifth-highest grossing game in the Korean Google Play Store, and placed 11th and 13th in the Japanese Google Play Store and iOS App Store respectively.