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2020PC

Codenames is a digital word-deduction game where you guide your team to the right words with single-word clues. Its appeal lies in linking several words cleverly and reading what your teammates are thinking.

  • Playing together in co-op
  • Turn-based combat
  • Co-op or multiplayer
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
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A chaotic party brawler for up to four players where you rewrite the rules mid-fight using cards. This keeps every round unpredictable and fun, whether played locally or online.

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Tumblestone

  • Systems like Codenames

A match-3-style puzzler that reinvents the formula with tricky plan-ahead puzzles. Hand-drawn art and head-to-head rounds against friends make it highly addictive.

Clones

  • Systems like Codenames

A Lemmings-inspired puzzler where you guide a horde of clones through more than 150 levels. It also offers online multiplayer with team play, powerups and a built-in level editor.

Touhou Shinkirou: Hopeless Masquerade

  • Systems like Codenames

You duel one-on-one in the air, since there is no ground combat at all. Each character fights in a distinct style, and you declare spell cards, skill cards and items with button combinations to unleash them.

Touhou Shinpiroku: Urban Legend in Limbo.

Respects your time

A fast 2D fighter set in the Touhou universe, where you trade colorful spell cards and dodges with familiar characters. It is most rewarding for fans of the series who want to try out each character's fighting style.

Fights in Tight Spaces

Turn-based combat

A tactical deckbuilding roguelike where you plan action-movie-style brawls in cramped spaces. Smart positioning, environmental tricks and clever card combos let you take down enemies in cinematic fashion.

Magic: The Gathering - Battlegrounds

You duel as a wizard in real-time arena battles, casting spells and summoning creatures straight from your card deck. It turns the logic of Magic: The Gathering into fast-paced fights.

Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix

  • Systems like Codenames

You drop gems and fighter pieces from Capcom's classic into crisp HD, building chain reactions that bury your opponent in garbage blocks. This remix adds new modes, rebalanced gameplay, fresh stage backgrounds and online matches.

Crystal Crisis

  • Systems like Codenames

A frantic puzzle-fighter presented like a one-on-one fighting game: you match falling crystals by color to chain combos and damage your opponent. Its colorful cast and fast duels shine especially in versus play.

Duelists of Eden

Gameplay comes before story

A real-time online card battler where you build a deck and duel others with fighting-game style action and rollback netcode. It blends deckbuilding with fast reflex-driven play.

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