Wardens

Wardens is a tactical game where you create units, abilities and win conditions, then play matches online, locally or against AI opponents. You can customize each unit’s name, movement patterns, portrait, power level and abilities.

Game modes

• Online: play against friends using Steam Remote Play only.
• Hotseat: play local matches against another player; Steam Remote Play is also supported.
• Practice: play local matches against the AI.

Create units and abilities

You create active and passive abilities in-game. Passive abilities trigger automatically when their conditions are met; active abilities are triggered by the player on their own turn. Abilities can apply status effects, called tags, to units. In addition to the fixed tags, you can give units custom effects using free-text attributes, such as “Elf” and “Bow,” to identify units that are bow-wielding elves or add faction-specific traits.

Status effects

The game includes these tags and effects:

• Stunned: the unit cannot move.
• Frozen: the unit cannot move.
• AttackImmunity: the unit cannot be affected by physical damage (overtaken).
• MagicImmunity: the unit cannot be affected by abilities.
• Detonate: destroys the unit and damages surrounding units.
• Poisoned: destroys the unit when its counter reaches zero.
• Charging: prevents the unit from moving and displays a visual charging effect.
• Fatigue: destroys the unit when its counter reaches zero; abilities cannot remove or modify this tag.
• Ice Ram: lets sliding units smash through blocking frozen units and/or ice obstacles.
• Transform: irreversibly changes a unit into another unit type.
• Blind: limits the unit to moving one tile until its counter reaches zero.

Custom win conditions

You can make win conditions in a chess-style format. Examples include capturing the opponent’s king, taking out four or more opponent pawns, or reducing the opponent to 10 units or fewer.