Over the course of the story, your character is sentenced to death for an alleged murder but manages to escape, which in turn results in a team of assassins sent to finish the job. Naturally, his curious nature pushes him to find out more about the subject and, after consulting with an old book, Garret decides that he too can partake in the matter, a thought which immediately puts him in big trouble. Thief: Deadly Shadows tells the story of how Garret, a professional thief, happens to overhear a conversation about something called the Dark Age and the signs that are signaling its approach. Despite his justifications, the fact remains that he steals to help himself, although while doing so, he also finds out about a way bigger danger that's about to descend on everyone. A huge monster cake.In a time of peril and hunger, a great thief by the name of Garret lurks the shadows, only to disappear with the most expensive jewelry in town.

It also just looks neat, and in later levels you fight with giant mecha and lasers which is icing on the cake. Like Into The Breach, you know exactly where the monster is going and are forced to plan accordingly. You realize the trick to the game is luring the monsters away from civilian buildings by sacrificing your troops and doing enough damage to kill the damn thing or hoping it gets bored and runs away. Each turn you're rewarded with money for every building that's still standing, used to build more bases and buy more troops.

As Mayor you need to secure up defenses by deploying tanks and bombers in order to scare off the Kaiju. The demo has you play through a handful of stages as the Mayor of Floatio City, a place with the unfortunate luck of being a gathering place for all sorts of menacing Kaiju. That pretty much already sold me on the game. Kaiju Wars is a turn-based strategy game with giant monsters who stomp on buildings and has the aesthetics of an old-school manga. Inscryption is the work of Daniel Mullins Games, creator of metatextual headfucks Pony Island and The Hex, and it promises to do to cosy collectible card games what Pony Island did to the endless runner-making it so eerie and unsettling it'll jangle your nerves and rattle your bones.

'Play along for now,' it says, and then things get weirder. Unlike Hearthstone or Hand of Fate, which it also resembles, Inscryption's theme is frontier America, all canyons and gulches, and my hand is full of wolves and a stoat. Blood (and later bones) are necessary to play better cards, like the adder. The squirrel can't attack, its only value is that it can be sacrificed for a point of blood. 'PLAY THE SQUIRREL CARD,' it says with more menace than the words deserve. This card game's backdrop is a dark cabin, and my opponent a pair of eyes in the shadows. Hearthstone takes place in a jolly tavern.

Sneak thief demo