Set a Watch challenges you to keep the home fires burning, coming to Android and iOS
Things are getting Dark and Darker- wait, wrong game
- Set A Watch is a dice-rolling campfire-defence strategy puzzler, coming soon
- Arriving on iOS and Android it challenges you to keep a campfire burning in the face of waves of monsters
- Starting life as a board game, it brings fully fleshed-out mechanics and more to mobile
While adventuring may often be assumed to solely be about slicing and dicing your way through all sorts of horrific beasties, what most don't concentrate on is the downtime between these fight-for-your-life moments.
And yes, all of us TTRPG players have been there. When you've just finished a dangerous adventure and settled down for a long rest, only for the GM to narrate something emerging from the undergrowth set to finish your exhausted and injured party off...
That's what Set A Watch is all about; starting life as a board game, Set A Watch is now arriving in digital form to Steam, iOS and Android. In it, you have to face wave after wave of enemies intent on snuffing out your campfire, with each moment in between waves based on preparing for the next onslaught.
You'll pick from six distinctive heroes, build your party and roll a set of dice, using the results to solve various problems and, of course, fight off monsters.
Set A Watch is one of those ingenious releases that takes as basic a concept as adventurers resting and fleshes it out to instead create a pseudo tower defence, strategy, puzzling RPG that really communicates the feeling of trying to survive an hours-long battle against nasty beasties lurking in the forest.
The only unfortunate thing about this news is that, while it has a Steam page we don't yet have listings for iOS and Android or a release date. But rest assured I've got my eye on Set A Watch to see exactly what it offers on release.
In the meantime though, if you need something to tide you over ahead of some of the exciting upcoming launches we've been covering, why not check out our list of the top five new mobile games to try this week?
