I could also see an iphone/android game where you gain astral gems and other items that can be put toward Shadow Lords mode.
Maybe it’s something that’s a combination of a lot of things:
1 Part Tappy fighter - Certain solo fights will require you to choose a character and then tap the screen to do combos, special moves, etc.
1 Part RPG: Class based characters, stat tracking, leveling up, gaining new abilities as you progress plus the ability to combine cards to create new character types and abilities.
1 Part Card Game: Characters, ability cards, boss characters, factions, armies, events, diplomacy and strategies are put in to cards that all have stats that are continuously built up with each use.
1 Part Board Game: You choose between the Night Guard, Ultratech or the Invasion and you get a base that’s on the board. You fortify the base using cards, and you advance to other parts of the game board, which triggers events and show downs that involve chance (dice rolls that are tilted a certain amount based on card stats), and can range from army battles to individual fights. The more event portions of the board you take control of, the more cards you can take, the more gems you earn for victory, and the closer you get to knocking out the opposing bases.
You can form alliances (which you can and probably should break when it suits you). It sounds complicated, but the basic goal is to build up your deck by defeating your other two opponents. The more you build your deck with lower level cards, the more you can combine them to make better cards to apply to characters to help increase their stats, which also go up as they’re used. Ability cards can only be used once per game, certain abilities only last for a single turn, once a character card is defeated, it’s removed from the board. Certain cards can be lost forever while others simply return to your deck to recover.
