Werewolves? There wolves. There castle.
Grigori Stones takes your usual digital CCG, replaces the cards with tiles, adds a dash of Mahjong, Stratego, and miniatures games and puts it all on your iPad. Join me in asking, what the hell?
In Grigori Stones you take on the role of one of four factions–vampires, werewolves, zombies, and Freemasons–and you build an army, miniatures game style, out of your faction tiles. Each tile is worth a value, and you’re given a cap that your army cannot exceed. Thus, you can have a large tileset with small, weak creatures, or have very few tiles with some gargantuan minions. Tiles are randomly placed on a board and each side has a flag buried somewhere on their side. Each turn, players can either move a tile, attack with a tile, use a tile ability, or place a new tile on the board. If it all seems a bit confusing, developer Luis Cruz has created a fully illustrated how-to-play post over on his site.
The structure of the game is similar to a CCG, where the initial download is free and additional tiles can be earned or purchased. It looks like complete sets of tiles can be earned by playing through the 35-level single player campaign, but there is also pass-and-play or online multiplayer.
Grigori Stones is available now for iPad. Gameplay trailer, complete with Halloween Spooky Sounds soundtrack, after the break.
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