Sometimes, press releases just throw as many words as possible at you and see what sticks. Words like “vast procedural overworld adventure”, “multi-character deck-driven combat”, and even “recurrent tactical optimisation”. That last phrase makes me want to stick my head in a bin, but “deck-driven” has been grabbing my attention ever since Slay The Spire sucked up 300 hours of it, so here we are.
Trials Of Fire is an upcoming turn-based strategy game, announced yesterday by Whatboy Games. That’s a new indie studio formed partly from people who worked on the Batman: Arkham series, so hopefully super-slick punching translates into… oh god, we’re going to have to figure out what more of those words mean. And watch a nice trailer.