Video Games and Card Games

By Ashten Elliott


Video games and board/card games are two of my favorite things and in a lot of ways are very similar, they are both forms of entertainment in which you control what happens while competing with other people or AI’s. So when I learned that they made a card game that looks like a classic SNES era game in which you play the boss of a dungeon and work to take out adventurers before they can get to you I knew I had to play it. The game itself is a card game with four types of cards, dungeon cards let you add more traps and monsters to your dungeon in order to kill the heroes who are the second card type every turn you draw three of them and if you have the treasure they are looking for they will enter your dungeon if you kill them you take their soul (you need ten to win) and if they get to you you take damage (take three and you lose). The other cards include the spell cards which allow you to affect your opponent’s dungeon, the final card type is the boss cards which you draw at the start of the game in order to see which boss you are and what abilities you have. Your dungeon can be built with up to five dungeon cards that can then be traded in order to build advanced rooms which are better than the normal trap and monster rooms. Once your dungeon is full you can use your boss's ability which does a different thing depending on what boss you have for instance a free advanced room or spell card. Overall the game is really fun and if you have more than two players it becomes more strategic and fun the series doesn’t look like it’ll stop soon as it already has six games in the series with three being expansions and one being a true sequel with the other being a spinoff. So if you’re tired of fighting bosses and you want to become one this is the game for you.