Possibly the closest D&D experience you can have on the web. holy shit, this was awesome fun. GO PLAY.
I love card games, I love turn-based strategy but most of all, I love humour. This puts all 3 of those components into a heap of awesomeness but best of all, you can play it straight from the freaking browser.
Main premise: You are somehow teleported to a parallel universe where you are playing with Gary (your dungeon master) who jumps you right into a game where your team (warrior, wizard, priest) have already levelled up and now faced with scary enemies and dun-dun-dun, a dragon boss thing. I'm guessing this is the tutorial level but there's not much handholding. turns out, you were playing with Gary's brother's stuff and he gets pissed. So now you're at the character picking screen, you're level 1 and the real game starts with Gary grunting and pondering quizzically at every encounter. Every now and then, someone delivers a pizza or Gary's brother butts in. It's hilarious.
I mean, I've tried other similar games before and the best I could find was https://www.wizard101.com which remains a firm favourite for their really simple but well thought out game design; the only downfall being I had to load into windows and launch an executable. Also, the 3D graphics were not happy with my machine.
So this. This Card Hunter game totally came out of nowhere and blew me away with its accessibility and excellent execution. Seriously, guys. I haven't even looked behind the curtains or know anything about the developers so this is a totally unbiased opinion from just 4 hours of gameplay. Uhm, yea I'm going to go stalk who made this now.
ps: It's in closed beta at the moment so I guess I was lucky enough to get a peek!
pps: You don't actually get to roll ANY dice but the computer does it for you.
ppps: There's actually multiplayer so you can play with (against PVP?) other people. You can also just spectate and watch, which is neat.
http://www.cardhunter.com
Possibly the closest D&D experience you can have on the web. holy shit, this was awesome fun. GO PLAY.
I love card games, I love turn-based strategy but most of all, I love humour. This puts all 3 of those components into a heap of awesomeness but best of all, you can play it straight from the freaking browser.
Main premise: You are somehow teleported to a parallel universe where you are playing with Gary (your dungeon master) who jumps you right into a game where your team (warrior, wizard, priest) have already levelled up and now faced with scary enemies and dun-dun-dun, a dragon boss thing. I'm guessing this is the tutorial level but there's not much handholding. turns out, you were playing with Gary's brother's stuff and he gets pissed. So now you're at the character picking screen, you're level 1 and the real game starts with Gary grunting and pondering quizzically at every encounter. Every now and then, someone delivers a pizza or Gary's brother butts in. It's hilarious.
I mean, I've tried other similar games before and the best I could find was https://www.wizard101.com which remains a firm favourite for their really simple but well thought out game design; the only downfall being I had to load into windows and launch an executable. Also, the 3D graphics were not happy with my machine.
So this. This Card Hunter game totally came out of nowhere and blew me away with its accessibility and excellent execution. Seriously, guys. I haven't even looked behind the curtains or know anything about the developers so this is a totally unbiased opinion from just 4 hours of gameplay. Uhm, yea I'm going to go stalk who made this now.
ps: It's in closed beta at the moment so I guess I was lucky enough to get a peek!
pps: You don't actually get to roll ANY dice but the computer does it for you.
ppps: There's actually multiplayer so you can play with (against PVP?) other people. You can also just spectate and watch, which is neat.
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