Card Hunter A tabletop dungeon crawl dealt from cards

There is no deck builder screen to agonise over. Every item your party picks up, a sword, a shield, a pair of boots, carries its own cards, and equipping it shuffles those cards into that character's deck. A great blade might come with one killer attack and two duds. A cursed amulet might hand you something powerful with a drawback stapled to it. Every loot drop is a deck-building decision in disguise, so swapping a helmet can change how a fighter fights entirely. It is a clever loop: you go adventuring for gear, and the gear quietly rebuilds your tactics.

Combat plays out on a gridded board, turn by turn, with cards for everything: movement, attacks, blocks and special tricks. Position matters as much as hand quality, and the dice keep things honest in the way dice do. Some fights are tightrope affairs where one turn decides everything, so you plan, adapt and occasionally pray. Your Game Master, Gary, presides over it all with cardboard miniatures and a certain smugness, and the hand-drawn look makes the whole thing feel like a game night on a kitchen table, even when you are playing alone at 2am.

The campaign can be run by one or two friends in co-op, sharing both the dangers of Cardhuntria and the loot. That changes the texture of the game: instead of quietly weighing your own hand, you are arguing over who takes the left corridor and whose priest should really have packed more healing. When a fight comes down to a single turn, having someone to groan with is half the fun. And when your party wants to turn on each other instead, there are casual matches, ranked play and regularly scheduled leagues waiting, including themed ones like the Graveyard Gambol.