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Yule Duel

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Santa Slain 10 Points

Defeat Santa!

Yeti Yeeted 5 Points

Defeat the Yeti

Collector's Set 25 Points

Collect all 25 cards

Author Comments

Originally released as part of the NG Tankmas 2022, now you can play Yule Duel on it's own!


This is a Holiday-themed Collectable Card Battle Game! Battle your way through the North Pole collecting new, more powerful cards to be able to take on the boss! ...and try to collect every card along the way!

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Santa: "Oh you thought I was the boss?"

Well I mean, the boss card literally has you on it.

The money symbol you used keeps making me think I'm paying in Armenian dram. ֏

interesting. i had trouble at the boss for a bit, until i realized my issue. i tried stacking my deck with 6+ power cards. but id end up unable to flip them back. so instead i had a few of the lower power but multi targeting cards. put those in first, then when im down to my last cards i can more easily flip them back

Interesting game, but I feel the last medal you have is unobtainable. The game says there's 24 unique cards, but the badge says "collect all 25 cards". Regardless, I'm pretty sure I've fought every person in the game, but I haven't gotten two / three(?) of the cards I need to finish, one of which I know is "Biblically Accurate", one of the only 7-drops in the game which nobody seems to have except the "final" final boss. If it just becomes a game of "beat people to sell cards and get money to open packs", I can't justifiably give this five stars; it makes it no better than those endlessly repetitive pay-to-win gacha games.

Also, a tip I learned only by having the AI use it against me: if a boss drops an Ace-level card, you can beat it with the 1-drop card "Secularism". I guess that makes sense why every enemy deck seems to have that one card on hand at all times, since the player will be automatically inclined to use the strongest cards possible in their hands.

AxolStudio responds:

Not every card is available in the packs or given by NPCs...

Cute little game! Call me unfair, but I don't feel like I can give you full credit since, instead of making your own card game, you just remade Triple Triad without even putting any sort of significant innovative twist on it, but hey, it's still a decently fun and addictive adventure to battle dudes, collect cards, defeat bosses for badges, and so on! While the game was a bit bland and didn't give a strong sense of progression and escalation (really felt like the journey to leaders should have more impact to it with music and level design), and despite me not really liking Triple Triad at all, this game nevertheless was so friendly and cute that I felt compelled to give it my best shot and actually came around to it, so kudos!

Such a nice little experience, not much use for dueling elves apart from their defeat text, Beautiful pixel art for the cards, especially the 25th one, makes it all the more worth it!

Credits & Info

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4,854
Faves:
62
Votes
188
Score
4.01 / 5.00

Uploaded
Nov 27, 2023
10:16 PM EST
Software
  • Photoshop
  • HaxeFlixel
  • Audacity
  • Tiled Map Editor