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Have You Played Pawnbarian?

Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time…

A tiny and mighty game. Pawnbarian is a chessy rougelike with a bit of card-flinging deckbuilding thrown in. It’s a simple shuffle around the ancient black and white board of yore but with the tiniest sprinkle of new age videogamery. It’s real good, and it is free.

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