The Vanar Kindred are an elite group of tacticians with the tools to manipulate the battlefield. Their Grow and Rebirth abilities require foes to invest heavily into tearing down their units, lest they get torn themselves. They create deadly Shadow Creep and outnumber their opponents with an army of Wraithlings - weak alone, strong in numbers.Īs resilient as nature itself, the Magmar Aspects are a powerful force to reckon with. Masters of Deathwatch, the Abyssian Host know best how to profit from demise. Use a myriad of buffs and debuffs to swing the fight in your favor, and equip powerful artifacts to make your General a lethal force. The Vetruvian Imperium focuses on ephemeral Dervish summoning and specialized minions. They're also masters of spell synergy, weaving devastating damage combos. Subterfuge is no stranger to the Songhai Empire, who steal the initiative with their displacement, ranged and backstab techniques. Utilize their healing prowess and you can whittle down your opponents in a war of attrition. The Lyonar Kingdoms are proficient close quarter fighters who use Provoke and Zeal establish a massive presence on the battlefield. Choose from six powerful factions: Lyonar Kingdoms, Songhai Empire, Vetruvian Imperium, Abyssian Host, Magmar Aspects, and Vanar Kindred.Construct a deck from hundreds of unique cards - use minions, spells, and artifacts to discover new strategies and devastating combos.Position your units on the battlefield and destroy the enemy General to claim victory in strategic turn-based combat.Build your collection of beautifully animated pixel art cards and put your skills to the test on the ranked ladder. It’s easy to see why it began trending as soon as it hit Steam, providing quite the attractive package with a nice level of challenge.DUELYST II is a free, fair, competitive tactics game. Being able to see all of your units on the field in impressive 16-bit animated sprites over a lush and detailed backdrop is quite the visual treat indeed, matches are quick and just the right length, and the large amount of cards to collect and fill your deck with, along with the lore that goes with each one, all make for one highly enjoyable game. Simple stuff, but highly effective.ĭuelyst really does indeed feel like a game such as Magic: The Gathering taken into a strategy-based arena, and it feels like natural evolution of the genre. You have your battle units and minions that you can place on the field which can move and perform one action each turn and can have different effects, spells that you can cast on specific areas or units, or artifacts you can have your general equip for stat boosts. The goal is to simply knock out your opponent’s general while keeping yours safe, casting cards each turn with the Cores given to you. It’s the type of game that’s easy to learn yet tricky to master, and can quickly become addictive. And yes, I was finally able to play a round of the game against the computer, which I highly enjoyed. Thankfully, the recent release of Duelyst on Steam as an additional platform has helped to revitalize interest in the game, quickly becoming one of the top trending titles on Valve’s service. Despite the initial excitement back then, it feels like there hasn’t been any notable press for the game since then, and despite being a free game, I haven’t had time for it myself. Take Counterplay Games’ free-to-play collectible card game/turn-based strategy hybrid Duelyst, which after a successful Kickstarter campaign two years ago, was finally released earlier this year. It’s always the annoying enemy known as time that causes backlogs to build up, forcing you to ignore some games despite still having a lingering interest in them. After all, with so many games out there constantly coming and going, attempting to cover every one and pick out the potential sleeper hits is a near-impossibility (I alone can think of several games this year that I regret not reviewing). You have it, I have it, even major sites like ours have one.
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