Animancers is an online turn-based strategy game where the objective is to defeat the opposing player.
As Animancers, you and your opponent have the ability to summon creatures to assist you in battle!
The game is designed to be easy to learn, while still retaining strategic depth and competitive viability.
Animancers is inspired by other turn-based strategy games, yet addresses many of the shortcomings that prevents these games from being highly competitive and reaching a wider audience. For example:
- Similar resource management to Magic the Gathering, but as a tactical game on a hex-grid map, and without the first-turn advantage. Both players can modify the turn order based on the abilities they use.
- Similar strategic gameplay to Civilization, but without the excessive time commitment. A game of Animancers usually lasts less than an hour, and daily games let you take turns at your leisure once per day. Also, unlike Civilization, the maps in Animancers are symmetrical, ensuring balanced starting positions.
- Similar tactics to Fire Emblem, but with far more diverse abilities, and without the time-wasting grinding and leveling processes, or frustrating misses or crits. The only element of chance in Animancers is the random map generation, which determines the optimal creature types and abilities to use for each game.
- Similar aesthetic and team-building gameplay to Pokemon, but without the need to memorize thousands of moves, stats, and type combinations. Animancers has just over 100 abilities, and they have different usage and effectiveness based on a creature's types and stats, which are intuitive and easy to learn.
The game is free to play in beta, and has an in-depth tutorial, so try it out and let me know what you think!
