Udacha is an original Expansible Card Game (ECG: the genre where you build your deck from the available card library before the game starts, but the variant where you don't buy cards in randomly organized booster packs).

Udacha is a very unique specimen in the genre. While it is a two-player competitive experience and you are trying to "win" the game, the game does not portray a single extended battle, but rather a story. Playing it feels kind of like acting out your favorite fantasy novel over the course of half an hour or so.

Rather than trying to kill your opponent, you are racing them to a victory condition: your Heroes must complete three "Quests" before your foe's Heroes do! But as they quest, they will learn dangerous Secrets about your foe, which may come back to bite them!

Rather than limiting your cards with "mana" or a similar resource, most cards can be played at any point in the game, but the most powerful cards are still a risk in deckbuilding, as they may indirectly slow down your "questing" process.

I want to eventually make multiple Editions of Udacha with various fantasy themes, but to start, I've focused on Anglinn, a fictional version of part of medieval England. Think of it as the Robin Hood story, if a witch and a dragon and their followers also set up camp in the nearby wilderness.

Udacha: Anglinn has been well-received by playtesters and the "Starter Decks" are well-balanced for a good experience ... but little playtesting has happened as yet with custom decks. Think of this as an opportunity for you to get involved and break stuff!

My goal is to make a digital version of Udacha: Anglinn playable on this site, freely accessible to Patreon subscribers.