Indie development studio Bigosaur have confirmed that their free-to-play combat card game Gods of Sparta is now available to the public on Windows, Mac and Linux based operating systems through web browsers and Facebook.
Described by the development team as a “true strategic online card game“, players verse the computer starting with a single card, and gain cards in their deck as they defeat each adversary. Players will verse others with similar cards to push the strategic play aspect of online card battle, as opposed to building decks.
Milan Babuškov | Lead Developer of Gods of Sparta
Typical online card games are all quite similar, they focus on booster packs and building your deck. The element of luck is too strong, and if you analyze it deeper, you realize that there’s not much difference than playing a slot machine. Buy a card pack and hope to get some epic card – insert a coin and hope to get 3 bars.
Gods of Sparta focuses on a duel game environment where the players have the same cards, ensuring fair play. In terms of on-screen layout, instead of single line of units players have front and back lines. Players can place their cards on the lines to give them the best advantage. There are three types of units: walkers, flyers and ranged; allowing players to protect the weak ranged units with first line of melee fighters. Players can pick any card from their deck, however, they lose their turn when they place a new card on the board. Players must destroy all their opponents cards to be declared the winner.
Currently there are four different campaigns which have been added to the game – Olympus, Artifacts, Hades and Humans, each teaching the player different play techniques set to Greek mythology. Bigosaur have committed themselves to additional campaigns in the future.
