I know most are against playing digital, but there's a pretty chunky sale on the official app (google play) right now for the full game and expansions.
Just got the base game and branch n claw for 70% off.
I personally sold my physical copy off but regret it a bit. Im pretty good about just sticking to mobile in this case.
Have hope guys! Mine just came in with a one day notification email. Ordered the whole set back in March.
As a huge imperium fan (like many others), going to jump into this ASAP and should be having a 2p game this weekend.
Got the revised version a few days ago and finally got some time to play. Lost on stage 9 of 12. I really enjoyed it as I've always played poker growing up. I used my personal cards instead of the deck included as there's a decent amount of shuffling.
I really like how simple it is to play and insanely quick. Essentially, you're just killing off enemies to make your way to the final boss to win the game. The low overhead of rules makes this an easy addition to my "quick plays" pile.
Set up is create the enemy deck 1 - 12 and shuffle your deck of cards, setting aside one joker (no jokers if using own cards.
Play is this simple:
- Flip top card, set health to shoehorse on enemy card and set the revolver and discard values equal to the top of the enemy face down cards.
- Play poker hands (must be 5), inflicting damage according to the chart or discard/reshuffle.
- Revolver number shows how many hands you can play and discard is the times you can discard/redraw or reshuffle your discard back into the card deck.
- Enemy dead? Flip next enemy card and repeat. Was the enemy an "elite" with a red banner? Reshuffle your discard, then repeat the steps.
That's it. Simple but pretty hard/luck dependant as with usual poker. Defeated enemies also either give you a permanent passive or one time use "item".
Good amount of variety too as each level has 4 cards each, but you'll only need one per set up. That on top of 4 levels of the boss itself. Definitely seeing myself playing this during work downtime or traveling. Looking for the expansion now too.