Sylvan Tactics

Sylvan Tactics is a card-battling chess game. Your pieces move in familiar ways from chess, but the cards in your hand decide who takes the field, what they can do, and when they strike. There is no checkmate: Kings have Health, and you win by bringing your rival's to zero. Free to play on Windows and macOS. No deckbuilding required and no pay-to-win card purchases. Play with a shared deck of 80 cards, or try Draft Mode where each player picks from the available card pool before the game begins.

Learn in a Guided Match, test yourself against a CPU opponent, then challenge a friend! Moves you already know. Every piece uses their chess-standard movement lines, except for captures. Cards put pieces on the board. Deploy Mercenaries from your hand as your Rook, Bishop, or Knight, each with its own Strength and ability. Resolve combat through adjacent attacks. Mercenaries each have different Strength values. When you make an attack, that value determines if you kill or only wound your target.

Wounded targets fall to any later attack. Sigils are your only resource. You awaken one more each turn, up to a max of six, and spend them to play cards, move, and attack. Each turn your first move costs 1 Sigil, your second costs 2 and your third costs 3, and attacks climb the same way.…