A brand new real-time card recreation is getting widespread 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 sort 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 optimistic critiques from followers of these video games—the 107 Steam critiques are 91% optimistic at press time.
The important thing gameplay characteristic 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 singular collection of spells, buildings, and items that defines them. Empower your villages and manufacturing with the Celestial Witch. Overpower your enemies with the may of the Chaos Witch. Prepare 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 how one can work together with different covens and villages you discover alongside the way in which, 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, in addition.
These real-time useful resource administration card video games are a reasonably new style total, with only some standout widespread entries. What limits their attraction, so far as I can inform, is that they are fairly dang unforgiving: Mess up and also you’re hardly ever 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 perform even is obtainable, which it is usually not.
You could find 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 printed by HopFrog.