Strategic Card Collect-A-Thon with FUN BATTLES! [ ISLE OF SWAPS ] Gameplay
0As part of Steam's Next Fest, I'm checking out the demo of Isle of Swaps - a Pokemon style collectible card game with strategic battles using a rock paper scissors style balancing system.
The lunch bell rings and everyone rushes out to play the Critter Card TCG! Build your deck by swapping with those you defeat, rip open booster packs for shinies and conquer your friend's Dungeon Decks as you become the Critter Champion (for this recess at least).
Steam link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2294160/Isle_of_Swaps/
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The worldwide phenomenon of Critters has the world in its grip and the newest collectable, the Critter Trading Card Game, has just been released!
Dina is Critter mad and has been begging her parents for a week to get her some cards. Yesterday they relented and have bought her a starter deck and a lovely binder to keep them in but it's not enough, she wants all the Critter Cards.
It's finally lunch time and everyone rushes out to play some more Critter Card Dungeons.
It's Critter Combat! Some Skill Cards generate elemental energy, whilst the stronger cards need that energy to be played. Make sure you balance your generating and spending for efficient combat. With elemental Weakness and Resistances also playing a part in a Critter's stats, making a varied team is key. You don't want your whole team to be weak to Blaze attacks do you?
But since Skill Cards can only be used by Critters of the same element, maybe using multiple Critters of the same type is a good strategy? You wouldn't want your Aqua Critter to be defeated and then not be able to use your Aqua Skill Cards.
Build you deck by swapping with the characters you beat in battle. Got some doubles? Swap as many times as you like and are able, no limits here. Any cards are added to your binder to change up your battle deck at anytime. Each Critter comes with 3 Skill Cards already equipped, so switching who to use in battle doesn't require a full deck rebuild. Switching your Critters often is the key to making it through the Challenges.
Each challenge is composed of a Dungeon Deck. Advance by picking one of the 3 cards but if you're feeling brave, unflipped cards award money that can be used to buy Booster Packs. But if you don't like the options, you can even swap a card with the next one in the deck, but as the Boss is the very last card, make sure you're prepared before blitzing through, OK?
A victory in the challenges adds the cards in your battle deck to your permanent binder, letting you customise the starting deck in future runs. And the next run? Totally different. With 6 different dungeons that can appear in any order, you never know what you'll run into next time.
Game Features
60 different critters to collect and store lovingly in your binder
A whole bunch of Skill Cards and passive ability Stickers to come up with a bunch of strategies.
Swap with characters you beat to build your deck instead of 'pick 1 of 3 cards'. Swap those dupes!
Each run is made up from 3 of the 6 Areas and can be played in any order, doing acts in the same order is pretty boring, right?
Winning runs adds your deck to your permanent binder letting you start runs with a build in place. No more slow starts.
This is a game inspired by a single dev's experience of when the pokemon trading card game took over school playgrounds, swapping every breaktime and having illustrated cardboard consume his life.
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