Universal Five Card Quest - Tactical RPG Battles (Rocketcat Games)

Hello! I'm launching a new game soon, named Five Card Quest. This is a new genre for us, the game is my take on the turn based tactical RPG. You're fighting through a dungeon with randomized battles, and you're telling your heroes what to moves to do by playing one of the five action cards in your hand.

Besides doing damage, your action cards can change your characters positions, interrupt or block incoming enemy attacks, apply debuffs, and more. What characters you have in your party determines your possible cards. There are even cards that also let you drop a couple unwanted cards out of your hand, in hopes of drawing a better move.

Like you can expect from our games, it's really challenging. The battles are random, and every move you do matters. Since both your characters and the enemies do so much damage, preventing incoming damage is really important. You can see enemy attacks coming, so you have time to deal with them. Everything is also pretty deterministic, there's no chance-to-miss and all attacks do a predictable value for damage.

Here's a short preview video, I'll probably make another video on the release of the game:

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I'd like to do more story-focused RPGs based on this one if people like it enough. This game's mostly about the tactics inside and strategy outside the fights.

We don't have an exact release date yet, but it's likely to be out within a month.

I'll be here to answer questions!

 

Thanks! Yeah, we're trying something different with it.

 

I've always been really interested in this kind of low-poly style, ever since Out of This World. It's also inspired by the more recent Nightmare Cooperative. It's vector art that resembles 3D art.

The dungeon works like the iPhone home screen. It's a map of rooms you can swipe on to scroll, and you reveal more rooms as you fight through battles. You tap on a room to look at what's inside. You can even see what enemies are in a room before you enter the fight.

Premium, $3, no IAP.

 

Nightmare Cooperate was really good.

Death Road to Canada is a similar engine to the one used to make Punch Quest, so it should be easy to get it on iOS. We just need to figure out the menus and so on.

 

Thanks! This one doesn't really have a story at all, it's all about the fighting and planning. If this one does ok, I'd like to take a try at something that's focused on telling a story. We'd already have a lot to go on for the battle system in a future game.

Each character you can recruit has their own set of cards. All the cards you have available are shuffled into a deck and drawn at random. There's no deck building in this one besides picking your characters, though this is definitely something I'd like to expand on in the future. At least something like customizing the cards for each character.

 

Where the *hell* is Maglor to do the instabuy cat?

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