Does anyone remember Greed Corp? It’s a neat digital board game about harvesting the earth beneath your feet in order to destroy your enemies, and hoping they’re the ones who wind up in the abyss. It came out a decade ago, but I hadn’t played anything that mashed up computers and cardboard in a way that scratched the same itch until this morning.
Hex Gambit: Respawned is like chess meets Into The Breach meets American football. It’s about making robots destroy other robots, or else making robots bounce over other robots’ heads so they can slap their opponent’s totem, score a point, and do a little dance. I like it, even though I’m only playing in the closed beta and haven’t had a chance to fight a human.