On a long enough timeline, perverse game devs will find a way to turn absolutely everything into a deckbuilder. Now? It's Minesweeper's turn. As we just caught at the PC Gaming Show, Mr Magpie's Harmless Card Game, developed by Giant Light Games and now published by Behaviour, is an actually-not-so-harmless card-based take on everyone's favourite mine-clearing game, in which a horrible felt man repeatedly executes you in a lift.
It looks great, is what I'm saying—askew and off-putting in all the right ways. You're trapped in an elevator with a terrible puppet and your job is to earn enough money to escape or, ah, get shot to death. A metaphor for capitalism, then. Got it.
