About This Game

Chards is a strategic card game where you play chess with cards. Unlike typical card games, this game has basically 0 RNG mechanic. The focus is on strategic thinking and planning.

Players still control traditional pieces on an 8×8 board, but each move is now influenced by the hand of cards they play. The game introduces 2 resources, gold and mana, that you must manage to gain advantages. Player can also summon extra pieces into the game by using card effects or promoting. Chards offers 4 different game modes, 67 cards and 23 extra pieces. If you are a chess variants enthusiast, you will love this game.

Basic Rules

• You start with every card in your main deck already in hand

• Each turn you may make a move and play a card

• Your hand is visible to your opponent

• You draw a card every second draw phases

• You draw card from your discard pile

• You can have up to 8 cards in your main deck, up to 5 pieces in your extra deck

Features

• Native Linux support

• 4 game modes

• Online PvP

• LAN PvP

• Local Play (requires running 2 instances of the game)