Game: Card Hunter

Time is precious. Especially gaming time, which means video games, collectible card games, and tabletop games are all vying against each other for yours. Happily, Blue Manchu has a solution to this modern dilemma. Card Hunter manages to combine elements from all three into one fun package that also happens to be free-to-play and run right in your browser window. Sound too good to be true? Then read on adventurer - your new favorite game awaits.In classic meta fashion, Card Hunter is not only the game you play, but also the game within the game, administered to you by an eager but relatively novice GM named Gary. He manages to use big brother Melvin's card set to teach you some of the basics of battling and questing in the land of, ahem, Cardhuntria, before he's discovered and you have to start over with just one lowly Level 1 Warrior. You'll eventually form a party of three from pretty basic archetypes: Warrior, Wizard and Priest, all of whom can be Elf for greater movement, Dwarf for more durability or Human for a happy medium.That simplicity is alright though, because there's a lot more to absorb. Every adventure - which look like old school D&D modules, down to the retro art style and flavor text - contains two or more battles. That's where the magic happens, figuratively and somewhat literally, as each battle takes place on a unique board with a square-shaped grid. The board is 2D but has artwork that depicts terrain, structures and other obstacles, whereas your characters and any enemies are represented by 3D figures.