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78%45378% positive reviews, Mostly Positive across 453 reviews·Roguelike Deckbuilder · Auto Battler
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A turn-based tactical board game with card battler elements. Contains sandbox elements for you to build your own units, craft your own abilities and set your own game rules with a fully integrated editor.
You can create units and customize their name, movement patterns, portrait, power level and abilities. Abilities are created in-game and allows you to create both passive and active abilities. Passive abilities triggers automatically based on its conditions/requirements. Active abilities are triggered by the player and on its own turn. Abilities may trigger status effects on units, referred to as tags in the following section.
Stunned Units with this tag can not move. Frozen Units with this tag can not move. AttackImmunity Units with this tag can not be affected by physical damage (overtaken). MagicImmunity Units with this tag can not be affected by abilities. Detonate Destroy the unit and damage the surrounding units. Poisoned Unit with this tag will be destroyed when the counter reaches zero. Charging Unit with this tag can not move and display a visual charging effect. Fatigue Unit with this tag will be destroyed when the counter reaches zero. Can not be removed or modified by abilities. Ice Ram Smash through blocking frozen units and/or ice obstacles (sliding units only). Transform Irreversibly transforms a unit into another unit type. Blind Units with this tag can only move with a distance of 1 tile until the counter reaches zero.
Other than the fixed tags listed above, you can create your own effects using free-text for units to give them unique behavior. For example, adding the attributes "Elf" and "Bow" can allow you to target units that are bow wielding elves. Since this is free-text you can extend the game with your own personal touch or faction specific flavor to your units.
You can create custom win conditions, currently following a chess style format, such as:

One of the biggest issues with current card battlers is that you have to spend a lot of money to stay competitive by frequently purchasing new packs and cards. We believe in a model that is free/included once you own the game and so, all future packs containing new official cards, decks and game rules will be available to you at no additional cost. In the future we hope to make it easy to share user generated content within the game so that you always have new and exciting decks to try out. In future versions, and only if needed, we might introduce purchasable cosmetics to cover our maintenance costs.
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