Tag Team

Tag Team is a two player card battle game. Each player controls a team of two fighters. To win a game you only need to knock out one of the opponent fighters. The game system has many different characters, with many unique abilities and styles of fighting. Each character has its own deck of action cards. When you play the game, you shuffle together all the cards of both your characters to form one deck. 

A fight is always 2 vs 2

In a way, this is a programming game. Every round, both players will have a sequence of actions to execute. Your action sequence starts with just a few cards. Each card is for one of your characters. To execute a round, both players reveal their first cards at the same time. The two fighters associated with these two cards will perform actions. They may attack, they may prepare to attack, they may heal, or they be doing all sorts of fancy stuff. Once the impact of both cards are resolved, you move on to the second cards of both players. This goes on until all the cards in the action sequences have been resolved. 

When a new round starts, you draw three cards and decide which one to add to your sequence. You can decide where to insert it in your sequence, including at the start or at the end. However, you do not change the order of the other cards in your sequence. Your opponent knows your action sequence, but not this new card, and also not where you are inserting it. You need to respond to your opponent’s sequence by inserting your new card at an appropriate position. For example, if one of your fighters is heavily injured, and you want to protect him from further attack, you would want to insert a card of your other fighter in that position where your opponent makes a powerful attack. Then you will have your other fighter take the damage. However, your opponent might be thinking the same thing and he might also insert the new card at the same place, shifting his big attack one step so that he can still hit your weakened fighter. This is the kind of player psychology you have in this game.

One thing that is impressive about this game is how different the characters are. They feel very different and their special abilities are unique. They are not merely tweaked to be higher or lower in certain statistics.