Aetherium Clash vs Ironbound

Aetherium Clash is a tactical card game built around one idea: play a card to the 3×3 grid, beat the number on an adjacent enemy card, and flip it to your side. When the board fills, whoever owns more cards wins. You'll learn it in a single match and still be finding new lines a hundred matches later. Most of the game is yours alone. A STORY CAMPAIGN Fight across distinct worlds, each with its own map of encounters and a boss holding the road forward. Beat the boss, open the next world. THE GAUNTLET A roster of AI challengers, each with a real deck and a style you have to actually solve — not difficulty sliders, opponents. A COLLECTION WORTH BUILDING 110 cards across four rarities, in a painted JRPG style. Earn packs by playing, disenchant duplicates into shards, and tune decks around what you've actually got. NO POP-UP ADS. NO IN-APP PURCHASES. NO ENERGY TIMERS. Nothing is sold to you. There is no second currency behind a paywall and nothing runs out while you wait. No ad ever interrupts a match — the only ones in the game are optional videos you can choose to watch for extra Shards, and you can ignore them forever. AND WHEN YOU WANT A HUMAN Ranked quick match against other players, or a private duel with a friend by code or QR scan. Trade cards with other players in the marketplace. Entirely optional — the campaign and the Gauntlet never ask you to go online for a match. FEATURES • Story campaign — worlds, maps, bosses, built for solo play • The Gauntlet — AI challengers with distinct decks and personalities • 110 collectible cards across four rarities • Guardian Forces — mythological summons as showcase card art • Deck builder with sorting by power and rarity • Player marketplace — trade cards for Shards • Optional PvP — ranked quick match, or private duels by friend code / QR • Cloud sync — sign in with Apple or Google, keep your collection across devices Place. Flip. Conquer the grid.

Ironbound is a turn-based tactical duel game built around RPG class identities and deep itemization. You shape your hero through equipment, not deck building, and develop your play-style across matches rather than rogue-like runs. Learn each class, then shape how it fights through weapons, shields and magic trinkets. Equipment can fundamentally change a hero’s play style. Your opponent’s visible gear lets you read their strategy and plan your response, rather than guess what might be hidden in their deck. Spend your action points well and land the strike that ends it. FIVE HEROES, FIVE WAYS TO FIGHT Play the hero that matches your style: the aggressive Berserker, the resilient Crusader, the stealthy Assassin, the cunning Witch or the chaotic Pirate. BUILD YOUR HERO Gold earned in matches upgrades your character and buys better equipment. With hundreds of weapons, shields and magic trinkets to choose from, explore combinations that reshape your class and suit the way you fight. CLIMB THE LADDER Take on real players in online duels and rise through the ranks, or practise against the computer in single-player matches. FREE TO PLAY Ironbound is free to play. Optional purchases are cosmetic: skins for your hero's crest, a hero portrait, and the Supporter Pack, which adds a Supporter badge by your name and class-coloured effects on your crest and attacks. Nothing you can buy makes your hero stronger. An internet connection is required.