Mahokenshi - The Samurai Deckbuilder
Game Source Studio · 2023 · Board Game, Turn-Based Tactics, Turn-Based Strategy, Exploration, Isometric
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About Mahokenshi - The Samurai Deckbuilder
Where will you start your journey? Will you hail from the sturdy House of Sapphire? The cunning House of Topaz? The fierce House of Ruby? Or the secretive House of Jade? Each house draws its strength from a different elemental spirit and allows you to create different playstyles.
There are more than 200 lovingly illustrated cards to discover. Begin with a basic set of cards and choose how to build your deck as you defeat formidable foes, uncover treasures, and find remote locations. Be careful, as each terrain offers different advantages, so plan your actions with the surroundings in mind. Evolve your playstyle and strategy in every mission and leverage the strengths of your samurai house to create powerful combos.
Travel a vast array of vibrant and beautifully designed 3D maps. Meet the different people of the Celestial Islands, save villages, discover shrines and defeat deadly demons. See your battles brought to life with fully animated characters. Perform magical maneuvers, fiery attacks, strong defensive moves, and swift counterattacks on your way to restoring peace to the world.
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Players praise the satisfying deckbuilding mechanics, thematic presentation with samurai aesthetics, and engaging tactical combat that offers good strategic depth through card upgrades and deck culling. However, the game suffers from limited build variety and a relatively shallow strategic layer that causes repetition and diminishing engagement after initial playtime, with moderate difficulty that doesn't demand deep optimization or replayability for most players.
Easily recommended for fans of deckbuilders, turn-based tactics, and ninja/samurai. Theme is well done, good variety of missions and enemies, upgrades, characters play differently, exploration and shrines let you adjust your build better than most others in the genre.1 found this helpful
It's a turn-based card-based combat game on a hexagonal grid map. You can choose from four characters, each with different cards that allow for different strategies (for example, dealing high damage, using poison, high mobility, etc.). There are various missions to undertake: you start with a basic deck, and on the map you can find additional cards, upgrade them, purchase temporary cards, and improve your stats (strength: to deal more damage; defense: to take less damage; energy: to move and play cards; increase the number of cards you can draw; increase your health). After each mission (even failed ones), you earn experience points that allow you to level up your character (unlocking new cards) and purchase upgrades on three skill trees. I enjoyed completing the missions (I especially appreciated the timed ones, which required careful planning of your moves), but none of them are particularly difficult (I would have liked to see at least two or three difficulty levels). I appreciated how the terrain type (plains, hills, mountains) profoundly impacts gameplay. In particular, I found the corrupted terrain to be a great idea. From my perspective, I found two critical issues: - the…
this aint it theres too many better deckbuilders out there these days
Excelente juego, al principo me parecio aburrido, luego me dio una buena cantidad de diversion con las estrategias y las cartas, muy bueno
Good cardplay and tactical board stuff going on. Voice acting and cutscenes really add to the theme of the game. Recommended
Amazing how such a simple game be so addicting!
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