Castle V Castle is a flexible minimalist card game with robots, witches and emotional signs

I couldn’t be sure, but the music for Castle V Castle sounded like it was created on an old Roland Tr-808 drum machine or equivalent plug. Your ears will be familiar with 808 even if your brain is not – it is the popularity in Hip Hop when Amen is broken. That is really suitable, because this minimal strategic game has the rhythm of a rap and answered rap battle. That’s what you can tell all of me to a part of a certain extent, but the bell rang here is especially hot, flexible and covertly.

(Game music is very different from trailers.)

You have three friends in the castle (abbreviated as MCS): A witch, a knight and a difficult building. Each person creates different resources per turn – magic, weapons, bricks. The cards in your hand cost a resource from that type and you play or remove one turn. Your goal is to smash the castle of the opponent or build 25 bricks. Some tags boost your castle or attack your opponent, some of your MCS increase so that they can create more resources, some stealing your enemies or block their next card and some summon a huge robot with the number of ten times after that it completely destroys the opposing structure. You can pretend that it is made from goat Poo and superstitious juice if you want to immerse yourself in the Middle Ages, I think. Uh, the hard hat of the built made of … Acorn porridge is clogged? Certainly, that will do.

Very simple, very minimal, but you will be Donkables very quickly if you are just silly Sling cards as a disturbed disturbed person who is also disturbed with video games. I found a good tac is playing a category until I get out of the card and move to the sequel. Spend a few constructions and cushions, then go out to attack, that’s what. The danger here is the trap of yourself in a location that you are tripping into resources or creating space in your limited hands to get more cards by removing multiple times. A few people are all that needed for a towering fortress to collapse into a ruin almost no more structured than a pocket of design and regret. When a castle dropped a few of its last bricks, a sign on the feet with the content “The End is Nigh” Waddles and then left again if the castle is repaired.

No need to say how I love Castle v Castle. I have started to really appreciate minimalism in both digital and physical games after many years to support large games, billions of adults and play large 4X games. So when I watched the digital equivalent of one of Gray Gnome’s lovely games in a tin box, I said. This is funded by Slay Casey Yano of Spire and developed by Nopopo (I agree). You can find the demo here.