Combo Critters goals to construct a celebration of lovely creatures and have them work collectively utilizing synergies to steamroll an enemy group.
Engine Constructing is considered one of my absolute favorite board recreation mechanics, and I’m completely elated that its beginning to floor extra often in video games. That is the newest recreation I’ve performed that’s packed filled with modifiers, mutators and twists, and it’s all accomplished with an lovely, low-rez art-style full of tons of cute little critters to recruit.
Combo Critters is the newest recreation from PUNKCAKE Délicieux (creators of MOONPONG, Shotgun King, and a complete lot extra). As with their earlier titles, it’s a tasty little indie delicacy with incredible artwork and well-rounded techniques. Nonetheless, as I stated beforehand, this time you’ll be curating critters to your celebration of six so as to hit rating objectives earlier than your opponent does.

All of it performs out in an easy-to-understand turn-base construction with gamers taking turns to attract from both the discard deck or the draw-deck earlier than discarding a creature of their alternative. The complexity comes within the cool critters and their results.
Every critter has its identify, a fundamental rating that they provide, a kind, and an outline for any additional necessities or results that activate as soon as it will get performed – with play beginning as quickly because the discard pile is full. As an illustration, there’s a really cool dragon card that’s (maybe clearly) fireplace sort and scores a whopping 50 factors. Nonetheless it negatively impacts a complete bunch of different sorts. Equally, Electrical critters can have some incredible talents however would possibly require an Power unit to be in play someplace, wherever, together with the discard pile.
Easy sufficient, proper? It definitely is if you happen to’re accustomed to engine constructing mechanics in video games like Balatro or board video games like Terraforming Mars… it simply wants a little bit of studying. And, if you happen to win your degree you then unlock a brand new critter and march on into the subsequent stage.


Combo Critters is out there now on itch.io.