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Puzzle Strike Shadows is the standalone expansion to Puzzle Strike (3rd Edition). You can play it by itself or combine it with the base set. The expansion contains 10 new characters, 24 new puzzle chips, as well as:
Panic Time rule to prevent games from going too long
A 3-player and 4-player mode with no player elimination and that allows crashing your gems to whoever you want
A 2v2 Team Battle Mode
A Custom Clockwork mode to draft your own character
Puzzle chips and character chips updated to ensure healthy competitive play in tournaments
New components: game boards and screens
Puzzle Strike is a card game played with cardboard chips instead of cards that simulates a puzzle video game such as Puzzle Fighter or Tetris.
It's a deckbuilding game, which means you build your deck *as* you play the game. Every game is different because the bank starts with a different set of chips each time. Also, there are 10 characters to choose from in the base set, each with different gameplay. Between all that, there are over 411 MILLION starting conditions in a 4-player game, and even more if you include the expansion.
A built-in comeback mechanic means that when you're on the edge of losing, you're also able to do even more combos than usual.
You don't have to worry about shuffling cards because you just put your cardboard tokens in a bag and shake them up to shuffle! Plus, it’s pretty ballin’ to play a game with chips. Play it on your yacht, impress potential mates, etc.
Though the game is fun even if you're terrible at it, it's also balanced for high level play by veteran asymmetric game balancer David Sirlin (Street Fighter HD Remix, Puzzle Fighter HD Remix, Kongai, Yomi, and Flash Duel).
Integrates with:
Puzzle Strike: Third Edition
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- this is our first watch it played exclusive
- we're actually getting the game before the designer has even gotten a copy of the game
- so this is the very first copy that is currently out
- it's a very interactive deck building game
- so i contacted him to see if he'd be willing to partner with us to make that series happen
- he did one better he told me to hold off
- david sterling has been hard at work and has also released an additional standalone expansion puzzle strike shadows
- david i hope you're enjoying the view from there as you get to see the first glimpse of the third edition of puzzle strike as well as the very first print run of puzzle strike shadows
- now for the rest of our viewers i'm going to tell you what exactly this game is as we look at some of the components
- so what is puzzle strike
- well i've been asked on more than one occasion if i would consider covering a deck building game on watch it played and that's what this is except instead of cards the game uses chips
- lots and lots of chips
- the game can be played with two to four players and it's modeled after the old puzzle fighter games where you are trying to overload your opponents with gems to crash them out of the game leaving you as the winner
- so it's a very interactive deck building game
- to help keep your chips hidden you store them in a bag like these
- which means you end up with a bag of chips don't get hungry
- and the game comes with player maps as well to help you organize the various game elements
- in the earlier editions you could get these different elements separately the boards and the mats but now everything comes in the base set
- if you were a kickstarter funder you should be getting your copy in or around september and then the game will be available online at cerlian games as well and in shops beginning around october
- now you might be wondering does a game like this that i can play with my eight-year-old really offer strategic depth of play
- well i'm not going to answer that because we're not a review series
- when you watch us play puzzle strike you're going to have to decide for yourself
- but that said david sterling and his team have produced an almost hundred page strategy guide for the game so that might suggest to you some of the strategic potential that this game has to offer
- now obviously it's a real treat to get early access to this game
- if you have any questions at all about the third edition of puzzle strike or puzzle strike shadows feel free to put them in the youtube comments below
- talking about bags of chips is making me hungry