Combo Critters
A downloadable game for Windows
Welcome to Combo Critters, a unique strategy game where the smallest creatures pack the biggest punch! Build a team of tiny yet powerful critters, each with unique abilities and traits. Maximize their interactions and synergies to achieve the highest possible score and outwit your opponents.
As you progress, you’ll discover new creatures, each adding new strategies and combinations to your arsenal.
Every battle is a test of creativity and tactic. Can you craft the ultimate team of critters and claim victory?
Draft Phase
- Refine you hand by drawing and discarding creatures
- Discarded cards can be picked up again by either player
- When the discard zone is full it's time to fight!
Battle Phase
- Reveal cards in turns until you beat your opponent
- Some cards have special effects and abilities
Progress
- Gain 1 level each time you beat an opponent
- Unlock a new creature for each level
- At higher levels, play with a larger hand and discard zone
- The opponent AI also gets better with the passing levels
Plays entirely with the mouse!
This game was made entirely in 72 hours for Ldum Dare 56. The soundtrack was made by Pentadrangle, and everything else was done by Benjamin Soulé!
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This is just REALLY good oh my god.
The Snake is kind of overtuned right now because the venom affects only the opponent (but you probably know this); the robot and starfish seem way too strong at 5 critters, but I think the game gets much more interesting with battlefields of 6. Bird that reduces opponent's size of the field seems very powerful as well, while Venos seems downright unplayable? Can't really tell because the AI isn't very good, I really want to just binge play it with other humans to really break it in half.
I wish I could have a boardgame version of this, I'd play it a lot. Even as is. For real. Strangely gives Faraway vibes crossed with Mindbug, even if it's mechanically very different from both? I just really really love this game, astonished you managed to put something like this out in just 72hs, with this amount of content. Balance is not even that out of whack. Gorgeous work.
Wonderful little game, I liked it a lot! Could use some UI adjustments like being able to observe your and opponents revealed units' text at all times. For example, I had a card that when played let me take a guy from a discard back to my hand and I couldn't check any revealed info including my own to see what would be the best fit.
Looks grand! Need macOS binary, though.
Would love a mac download!
Cool game!
But can you add a better tutorial.
I'm still confused how to do combo.