Cards Wars: Hybridous gameplay

Do you remember “Alice in Wonderland”? The massive marching armies of playing cards? It seems to be interesting to command such an army in a computer game, doesn’t it?

If your answer is positive, you’ll surely like Cards Wars, recently released turn-based strategy. It features playing cards as soldiers. They fight for control over the provinces, like in Risk. But the game has a few extra dimensions, providing the unique experience for the player.

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SteamBirds: turn-based air battles of the World Wars

Aerial dogfight is a very dynamic action where the positions of the opposing sides change constantly. As a rule the computer games featuring these battles are real-time, but Andy Moore and Daniel Cooh invented a turn-based gameplay which reflects the spirit of sky combat.

The game takes place in the steampunk setting of the alternate history in which in 1835 the cold fusion was invented and a nuclear hotbox was installed on an early airplane. All the systems of the plane are diven by the super-heated steam. The game’s first misson takes place in 1907, it is a testing of Mansfel intermittent steamgun. The following missions are the air battles of the Fist and the Second World Wars.

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