Hunt of the Reptorians (AppID: 2003770)

A space-battling crew-managing deckbuilder where your crew are your cards. Deliciously destructible ships: carve apart enemy ships chunk by chunk. Design your ship to fit your play style and adapt to enemy strategies. Reclaim Earth in a hunt-or-be-hunted strategic campaign.

Firing weapons, boosting shields, repairing your ship, shooting down incoming projectiles (and many more space-captainy actions) are done via playing cards during combat. It will be up to the player to devise cunning strategies to make the most of their cards.

We wanted to avoid ships being a bag of hit points that suddenly explode when their hit points run out. Instead, each part of the ship has a specific purpose. If you destroy their weapon mounts, they won't be able to fire until they are repaired. If you take out their engines, they won't be able to evade as effectively. If you smash through the armor surrounding a room, the crew might be sucked into space. And so on.

Individual projectiles are simulated and strike the ship at specific points. The player will have to choose which areas of the ship they should target. Do they go after the weapons first? Maybe their weapons are protected by bubble shields. In which case, do they take out the power generator first so that they can't power their weapons?

Unlike most deckbuilders where you have a global deck of cards, in Hunt of the Reptorians each crewmember contributes cards to the overall deck. As they gain experience, they will get more cards. Or you will be able to upgrade or remove their existing cards. You’ll have to make sure you protect and nurture them with training etc. It won’t be a good day when your highly experienced pilot is sucked out into space!

If you move your crew member away from their post (e.g. if you need to send someone to the sickbay), their cards will be removed from the deck until they return.

You will have to decide where your crew need to be during combat. An engineer might be more useful boosting the reactor, getting some more juice out of the engines, or they might be needed for repairs.

As part of the game progression, you will use your resources to expand, upgrade and customize your ship. Decide whether your ship will be bristling with guns, fast and nippy or slow and tough.

Command the remnants of Earth's fleet: from hunted to hunter. Build your strength, outsmart the Reptorians, and reclaim Earth. Your goal is to make your way back to Earth and defeat the Reptorian mothership. However, it won't be that easy, you'll need to build up your strength by upgrading your ship and improving your crew's skills and abilities (cards) if you want to stand a chance of beating the mothership. You will have to deal with events and challenges along the way.

Here is a selection of cards you'll get to play with