Squirmish is a hilarious turn-based card-battling game for online PVP or solo play. Find your favorite creature cards and battle them against your opponent's beastie brigade. Strange strategies and interactions of the wildly-varying cards create a unique, unpredictable and infinitely-playable game!
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What the developers have to say:

Why Early Access?

“For years, players have had fun at their tabletop playing SQUIRMISH: The Card Game of Brawling Beasties, so we decided to bottle that fun in the form of a videogame we call SQUIRMISH: The Videogame of Brawling Beasties.

SQUIRMISH: The Videogame of Brawling Beasties is already playable, awfully fun, and completely plaid-pants-nuts... if you like the sorts of things we like, you will already like it. We're just having so much fun making it, we can't resist making it even better. We also want to get feedback from more players to see what they like and loathe about the game, so that input can help us make our game smile and shine like a brand new baby with gas.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“"As long as a piece of string." - Betty Ross, High School English Teacher

It should be around six months with the wind at our backs... but it could run a little longer.”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“Some additional features we plan be adding before the final release:
  • Further evolution of PvP: Matchmaking to discover the best PvP formats and revise skill tracking.
  • New cards beyond the standard 70! -- maybe as DLC card packs.
  • Improved, harder-to-beat cyber-brain-smartses for single-player opponents.
  • Further refinement of alternative play formats (possibly including a draft format).
  • Squash any bugs that we have not found yet into slimy green paste.
  • Grow the community to a large enough size to reliably support PVP.
  • Additions and improvemeents to visual and audio effects. (Thankfully, we are not pursuing olefactory effects at this time.)
  • Even more funny!

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“The game is ready for rumbling, with solo matches and 2-player online PvP already fully-functional. All 70 cards featured in the original printed card game are included. You can currently play against 10 different ridiculous opponents with varying levels of brain. A variety of controls are supported to suit your particular preferences. An interactive tutorial gets you up-to-speed and ready-to-bleed quickly. The game plays nicely on SteamDeck.

The basics of the game are simple, but the wild variety of the card abilities (and the luck of the dice) keep the games fresh and interesting for many hundreds of hours... far longer than an unrefrigerated head of cabbage.”

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“The early access version is being offered at a small discount from the final release price to reward early adopters for being awesome and cool and Fonz-like.”

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“We are really itching to hear what y'all think of our crazy game (at first we thought we had the hives). We want to hear what you think about what we've built and to get your input on where you would like to see us to take it, whether it be over the moon or for a long walk on a short pier. We have created a Discord Server for our users to share their experiences, thoughts, fan art, wit and thoughtful and moving (but also somewhat unsettling) poetry about their time spent as a stowaway aboard a clipper ship.”
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“All the cards the game has are in this digital copy with bright neon green background, crazy colors, characters zany and the whole thing feels like it was vomited up by a unicorn who had a fantastic day at the carnival eating all the candy and taking all the rides. And let me make myself clear, this is not a bad thing.”
Geeks Vs. Geeks

About This Game

Enter the Squirmish, a ridiculous rumble where card creatures clash and only the strangest survive! Draft an odd squad of warriors, with names like Kittyclops, Pompaduck and Killgor the Conqueror. Each card has its own preposterous powers, so you'll need strategy -and a bit of luck of the dice -to survive! Knock out the competition and become the beastie boss!


Based on the hilarious, critically-acclaimed card-battling game. Battle bizarre and ridiculous cards in both single-player and online PVP multiplayer modes. Rumble against a horde of odd opponents created just for the videogame, such as Tutufly, Picklepuss and Beatknock. Easy to learn how to play... but with wild and varied strategies to keep play interesting for up to 92 years, 163 days, 8 hours and 22 minutes!

SQUIRMISH IS NOT JUST WEIRD FUNNY, AND NOT JUST HA-HA FUNNY, IT IS SNORT-HYUK-GUFFAW-MILK-SHOOTING-OUT-OF-YOUR-NOSE FUNNY

Squirmish has more crazy cartoon buffoons than you can fit in a clown-car, with some of them shouting their insane battle cries, others chattering incessantly about all sorts of obscure nonsense, and some just hypnotically wiggling their sausage-arms, seemingly summoning a chortle from deep in your guts. Indeed, Squirmish is the sort of laugh-riot that someone really ought to call the police about.

THE GOAL: KNOCK OUT THREE CARDS TO WIN A GAME

If you knock out three of your opponent's cards by depleting all of their hit points before your opponent knocks out three of yours, you win the game! Huzzah!

AN INFINITELY-PLAYABLE GAME!

While the gameplay is simple and easy-to-learn, the wild variety of the cards (all with their own strange, unique abilities and attacks) makes Squirmish infinitely playable. You could play this game for one hundred years, and no two games would be alike (however, we do not recommend playing for longer than 62 years at one sitting). Add booster packs for even more cards and the game becomes so infinitely playable, you may even break the space-time continuum!

DEFEAT THE ROGUES' GALLERY!

A whole crew of ridiculous roughneck rogues are ready for you to battle against them... from the very green Newton through the brawny-brained Greyface. Can you defeat them all? Without a half-leprechaun's worth of luck and a solid knowledge of Squirmish card strategy, it sure won't be easy!

Fortunately, battling through the Rogue's Gallery works like a school of Squirmish. Once you graduate from it, it should imbue you with all the skills you need to give your opponents a good run for their Mommy.

Best of all, if you beat a rogue enough times, you get a prize card that makes it so you can battle as that rogue in the game... and use their soundboard to taunt your opponents!

BATTLE YOUR BEST BEASTS IN CUSTOM DECKS!

Start out with the standard deck of 70 different hilarious cards, ready for rumbling. Learn more about them and their wildly-varying strategies, both in-game and in the card management section. Build your own decks to play with, or use different ready-made decks with different interesting card combinations.

GANG UP WITH GRUESOME GROUPS!

Some Squirmish cards belong to groups. The Fraternal Order of Strange Fellows! The Society of Slime! The Spooner Valley Cryptids! When more than one of these group members enters play (even if they are controlled by different players), that group is activated! When a group becomes active, so does that group's special group abilities... adding even more wild chaos to the battle.

A GAME OF SKILL... AND OF CHANCE!

To be a Squirmish master requires a great deal of skill... as well as a lot of luck! While the gameplay is simple and easy-to-learn, the strategies can get very complex, as every card has different attacks and abilities! Even with the best strategies, you'll need plenty of good luck as well... besides your hand being dealt to you randomly, the results of every attack are determined by a die roll. If you roll high enough, you'll get to use a card's special attack and really give your opponents the what-for!

A VARIETY OF GAMEPLAY OPTIONS!

You probably already know that you can play Squirmish in both single-player and PVP modes... but beyond that we have a number of different options for gameplay styles (with more in the works).

-STANDARD: Play with an auto-built 36-card deck, containing exactly one complete group.

-CLASSIC 70: Play with the full 70-card "Set A" deck from the tabletop version of Squirmish.

-CUSTOM DECKLIST: Play with a pre-constructed thematic deck of 30 or more cards of your choosing.

-2 GROUP MONTE: Each player chooses one group to be included in the game deck... these groups are then combined with some other cards for a 36-card deck.

-CONSTRUCTED MINI: Players each choose 12-card mini-decks, which are then combined with some other cards for a 36-card deck.

-RANDOM 36: Play with a 36-card deck randomly assembled from all available cards.

BOOST YOUR GAME WITH BOOSTER PACKS!

The game comes with 70 cards... which is a lot to learn about! Once you've mastered those cards, you can expand your play with booster packs that give you even more cards to play with. Our first booster pack, The Halloweenies, can be downloaded for free! More packs of monsters and miscreants are in the works and will be available soon.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10 or Windows 11
    • Processor: 2.0 Ghz
    • Memory: 2 GB RAM
    • Network: Broadband Internet connection
    • Storage: 1 GB available space
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10 or Windows 11
    • Processor: 2.5 Ghz
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Network: Broadband Internet connection
    • Storage: 1 GB available space

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