Explore

Combine open-world building with tower defense and a hefty dose of real-time strategy and player versus player and you get the one-of-a-kind gaming experience of Mindustry. As the opening tutorial leads you down, ever deeper into its complex yet practical mechanics, you’ll gain a growing appreciation for the thought and craft for which Mindustry was made.

In the simplest of terms, Mindustry is a game of building and protecting a massive mining operation. And also obliterating your opponents. You play as a builder-drone, tasked with starting a mining operation on a mostly-empty open-world map. Though you start with a small repertoire of building abilities, the game soon equips your ship with the ability to build numerous structures, mining depots, turbines, conveyors, turrets and more, giving you everything you need to build your mining empire. Seems easy enough, but Mindustry is deceptively simple.

You also need to power your structures, organize your resources and, of course, keep everything protected from attacking drones.

Once you’ve learned the ropes and have a few levels under your belt, the game offers a map editor and PVP battles for more experienced players to stage epic battles. You can host a game or join others from a connected server. Game types are completely customizable, so there’s virtually endless ways to play.

Mindustry can be unforgiving at first, but with a little patience, extremely rewarding as you build elaborate conveyors and engineer a world-class mining operation to take over the world. With its combination of open-world RTS with tower defense and PVP, Mindustry has something that everyone can get excited about.

If you’re looking for a digital card game that raises the stakes and is unlike anything else out there, Card Thief changes the game completely. Conceptually, Card Thief takes a second to wrap your head around because it’s so unique – but once you grasp the game mechanics, it’s an absolute blast to play.

Unlike traditional card-based games where cards augment the action in some way, in Card Thief, then cards are the playing field. You play as a thief tasked with navigating your way through a 3X3 grid of cards, evading guards, grabbing treasure, and making a deft escape without getting caught or using all of your stealth points. Each level is a puzzle game that requires a little planning and strategy, and a whole lot of fun. The choices you make on one turn, can completely change what happens the next one, so if you’re looking for a game with maximum replay value, Card Thief has it in spades.