Recesses

If you told me I was buying a game about elementary school recess, I’d have expected dodgeball, maybe a juice box, and some questionable decision-making. Recesses somehow delivers all of that… but with cards, existential dread, and surprisingly intense strategy instead of snacks. The heart of the game is a single-player deckbuilder/strategic card battler: every outdoor break becomes a strategic duel against another weirdo from the playground. Each card has weird, wonderful effects, and losing feels as rewarding as winning — because it unlocks new dialogue and strategies and gives you more cards to add to your collection. If you go in expecting some breezy card game, you’ll be surprised by how captivating Recesses is — 100+ unique cards, tons of goofy but sharp dialogue, and real strategic depth that sneaks up on you like someone throwing sand in your face at recess. In short: it’s kind of like if your favorite deckbuilder and your 5th grade memories had a weird art project baby, and it’s way better than it has any right to be. Bring your booster pack and your bird puns cause we are going on a wild ride.

You need to play this game. That's all.

The Second Best Most Autistic Card Game - the first is drawing your own cards on paper and cutting them out with safety scissors

Fun card game and deck building with a charming style Worth

I played hours and hours of the demo. Had an absolute blast with a friend back-seating to build decks, weigh probabilities... Before fully exhausting its contents, I decided to purchase the full game. That's how much I love it! Initially, it's like the first idea you'd conjure up for a digital card game; you and your opponent pick a card in secret, the one with a bigger number wins... Information is tracked in a way that would be impossible in a physical game, which comes off inelegant and fussy... But after just a few matches, it blossoms. Imagine [i]Love Letter[/i] or [i]Terrible Monster[/i], one of those "Take that!"-style trick taking games, but as a collectible card game. The game has a particular roguelite structure focused on [i]deck construction[/i] (making a deck freely from a permanent collection) instead of [i]deck building[/i] (like [i]Dominion[/i] or [i]Slay the Spire)[/i]... So basically, the only "rogue" part is that it's run-based (you beat the game by winning consecutive battles). With that in mind, its structure addresses common issues in deck construction CCG video games (like the Yu-Gi-Oh games, etc). Like... What motivates you to refight CPUs? How do you ke…

Really fun game if you can persevere through hardship (it gets tough but definitely possible and rewarding)