Game: Dead Man's Draw

Nothing's quite as much fun as when a developer surprises you with something totally outside of its normal comfort zone. Like, how much fun would it be if Rockstar made a casual party game? Okay, maybe that's not the best example, but Stardock did something almost as intriguing by taking some time off from 4X strategy games to create Dead Man's Draw. If pirates had iOS devices in the golden age of seafaring, it's easy to imagine them playing this card game that tests your wits and nerve in equal amounts.The object of Dead Man's Draw is deceptively simple: have more points than your opponent once you finish drawing cards and the deck is gone. But this is no ordinary deck. It's got 10 suits, all of which are suitably piratey (if that's a word) things like treasure chests, hooks, cannons, and mermaids. Each suit contains only the numbers two through seven, and only the highest card that you hold in each suit at the end of the game counts toward your total score."On your turn, you can draw as many cards as you want, provided no two are from the same suit. Doing that immediately ends your turn and sends everything you've drawn to that point to the discard pile. Stop in time and you add all of the cards you've drawn to your collection, with your score changing to reflect any high cards in each suit.