Zugzwang

“A situation in which the obligation to make a move in one's turn

is a serious, often decisive, disadvantage.”

Game Description

Super Tortoise Team

Devin Power | Mark Swick | Tim Rurkowski

Play the HTML5 prototype

Warning, certain game rules are not enforced - such as
“every unit must move every turn”

- this has been regularly playtested with friends/family through screenshare since 2017.

Treat it like any board game, do whats fun for you.

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Units and Abilities

Design Challenges / Critique

[in progress]

Zugzwang is a game about taking bad moves.

And turning them to your advantage

All Units must move - Every Turn

Collect death’s toll, use it to…

Tear a Rift in space
Block the enemy path
Take a cheap shot — p i n g

Units and Abilities

Spells

Rift

Ping

Blocker

Units