A brand new real-time card recreation is getting in style inside its fairly indie area of interest: WitchHand, a cutesy-styled recreation about “main your coven into new, unfriendly lands” launched simply this previous week, on February 7, 2024. Utilizing playing cards, you construct up buildings, collect apprentices and familiars, and assign them sources to do their jobs with the intention to flourish in a type of 4X technique meets real-time card and useful resource administration.
It is clearly one for followers of Stacklands and Cultist Simulator, the 2 greatest names in this sort of pretty sensitive real-time card recreation style. It is sitting on very constructive opinions from followers of these video games—the 107 Steam opinions are 91% constructive at press time.
The important thing gameplay function in WitchHand is the a number of characters that may lead the coven of witches, every of which performs fairly otherwise.
“Every witch has a novel choice of spells, buildings, and items that defines them. Empower your villages and manufacturing with the Celestial Witch. Overpower your enemies with the would possibly of the Chaos Witch. Cook dinner scrumptious, stat-boosting meals with the Chef Witch. Select the witch that most accurately fits your playstyle and have full management over your analysis paths to additional personalize your playthrough,” says the developer.
You may additionally discover that you will need to work out methods to work together with different covens and villages you discover alongside the best way, combating them, buying and selling with them, befriending them, or “[using] their bones to gas your spells.” There’ll even be nasty void ogres and goblins and issues to do battle with, as well.
These real-time useful resource administration card video games are a reasonably new style general, with only some standout in style entries. What limits their attraction, so far as I can inform, is that they are fairly dang unforgiving: Mess up and also you’re not often capable of revert to a earlier save for restoration as the issue you’ve got misplaced to is one thing systemic in the way you arrange your playing cards—if a save operate even is obtainable, which it is typically not.
Yow will discover WitchHand on Steam. It is developed by Jon Nielsen, who beforehand made crafting recreation Misplaced Nova, roguelike auto-battler Mechanibot, and can also be a webcomic artist. WitchHand is revealed by HopFrog.
