Budō is a two-player mixed martial arts card game that challenges each player to manage a dojo of martial arts skills while striving to knockout the opponent. Learn to manage a dojo in ten minutes then spend a lifetime mastering the martial way. Adapt your mat position and craft a deck of attack and defense skills to combat your opponent. Balancing tactics and strategy, play the player across the tables as much as the dojos.
Players balance the use of Stamina and Experience Points to build a deck of attack and defense cards from their dojo of skills in order to adapt to an opponent's evolving strategy. Holds create an opening for an attack and often work in combination with other moves. Stuns break an opponent's rhythm leaving her without enough stamina to pull of offensive combos. Takedowns are advanced moves that put the opponent on the mat defenseless.
The linear mat component allows players to control distance to avoid damage and get in range to strike their opponent providing an additional level of tactics and strategy.
Lasting about 30 minutes, no two fights are ever the same. With each new bout, new strategies emerge