Card Hunter
Some readers will likely have played the browser version of Card Hunter, which has been around since 2013. Well, now it’s on Steam as a standalone game, and is well worth your time. The aesthetic is of a tabletop dungeon game, and anyone who ever played Milton Bradley’s HeroQuest back in the day will immediately feel at home.
You play a party of three characters against a dungeon master, and the equipment you outfit your characters with determines cards they draw in each round of combat. These take the form of moves, attacks, spells, and effects, and there are tons of them.
The retro art style is immediately loveable – each adventure you embark upon is presented like a Dungeons & Dragons module booklet like you might have found in 1985. Your dungeon master is a dorky kid who is infatuated with the pizza delivery girl and has an older brother who occasionally shows up to tell him he’s playing the game wrong. But all this is trapping around a surprisingly deep tactical RPG, which now has “challenge” dungeons as well as online multiplayer.
