Shogun
Showdown

Shogun Showdown (2023) is a tactical fighting game where you play a Japanese-inspired warrior batting to be ready to face the Shogun. Each run you choose a character and attack cards to work through a series of miniature turn-based battles.

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Although the deck-building and turn-based fights are familiar, this is a game like Into The Breach, where precision and planning of these aspects are crucial. You need to carefully position yourself and stack your attacks in the right order to do well. Because you can see what your opponents are going to do in their next move, it becomes a game as much about sequencing and cunning as brute-force attacks.

As you progress, you can have the option to pick new attack tiles or upgrade the ones you already have. In this way, you build the deck on the current run, as well as unlock cards and characters for your next attempt. You also learn how to use the swap-place skill and combos to further power up your attacking abilities.

The result is a game where you have all the information you need to win each battle. Interpreting this and sequencing your moves and attacks appropriately. This creates an approachable system with considerable depth, not unlike the experience of learning a game like chess.

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Our examiner, Thom Robertson, first checked Shogun Showdown 21 months ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 7 weeks ago.