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A game where cards are used to fight your enemies, or one where you make a "deck" with different abilites. Some examples are Culdcept Saga, Yggdra Union, and Phantom Dust.
One of the world's oldest board games, using eight pawns, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, a queen and king.
Some board games you capture opposing pieces, sometimes turning them into your own
An ancient game of strategy, originating in China over 2500 years ago and remaining popular throughout East Asia to this day.
Grid-based movement limits players, and other entities in a game, to moving through the game world in increments of whole squares on a grid. It has been a common staple of turn-based strategy games since the earliest board games of antiquity. It was also used by early RPGs.
A six sided geometrical shape sometimes used in strategy, puzzle, and board games.
A Random Number Generator (hence RNG) is a system designed to randomize a sequence of numbers. Most games technically use a table of 'random' numbers, simulating random chance.
Also known as Othello, this strategic board game uses round pieces with a different color on either side. When pieces of one color form a straight line between two pieces of the other color, the middle pieces are flipped over.
Game mechanics traditionally found in role-playing games that are incorporated into a non-RPG title.
A traditional Japanese board game also known as Japanese chess.
A series of Japanese board games in which players use dice to move their pieces forward, usually with special events that happen on certain spaces in the track.
Gameplay type emphasizing deliberately paced tactical battle where each side politely takes turns moving and attacking one another through varied forms of combat.
Turn-based games divide game actions into distinct parts, called turns. This gives the player time to strategically choose actions as the battle or events unfold.
Games (usually board games) where players make use of letters to find or form words. It can be anything from word searches to Scrabble.
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