Set in a science-fiction conflict between humans and intelligent machines, Prismata casts you as a commander building cybernetic forces. Turn-based battles pit your army against an opponent’s in contests where the important information is visible to both sides. Gather resources, create workers and technologies, and build units for attack, defense, or economic growth. Each match offers a changing pool of additional units, so you must adapt your plans rather than rely on a fixed deck or random card draws. Choose among three technology classes and balance economic expansion with preparing for your opponent’s moves. Play campaign missions, combat-training puzzles, and challenges against AI, or take your strategy into casual, ranked, and custom multiplayer matches.
Build an economy and robot army in turn-based strategy duels, adapting to changing unit pools without random draws.
A perfect-information strategy game inspired by RTS, deckbuilders, and board games. Choose from three distinct technology classes and outwit your foes by snowballing your starting resources into a powerful cybernetic army. ABSOLUTELY NO PAY-TO-WIN.
Developed by Lunarch Studios · Published by Lunarch Studios
Player Review Breakdown
Players Praise Most
No-RNG Strategy
Deep Tactical Planning
Changing Unit Pools
Fair Free-to-Play
Common Player Critiques
Steep Learning Curve
Unfinished Campaign DLC
Mentally Demanding
Sparse Online Pool
81%
positive of 1.2k player reviews
Set in a science-fiction conflict between humans and intelligent machines, Prismata casts you as a commander building cybernetic forces. Turn-based battles pit your army against an opponent’s in contests where the important information is visible to both sides.
Gather resources, create workers and technologies, and build units for attack, defense, or economic growth. Each match offers a changing pool of additional units, so you must adapt your plans rather than rely on a fixed deck or random card draws.
Choose among three technology classes and balance economic expansion with preparing for your opponent’s moves. Play campaign missions, combat-training puzzles, and challenges against AI, or take your strategy into casual, ranked, and custom multiplayer matches.
Players who enjoy Prismata often praise its deliberate, luck-free strategy: resource planning, tactical decisions, and adapting to different unit pools make matches feel varied and rewarding. Reviews also appreciate the challenging AI, training puzzles, and the absence of paid competitive advantages. Common reservations include a steep learning curve and mentally demanding matches; some players also criticize the campaign DLC as unfinished, while a few mention a small online player pool.
Full Game Details
From the Devs
Prismata's new free-to-play edition is radically fair, featuring no card packs, no grinding, and absolutely no pay-to-win. We steadfastly refuse to sell items that provide advantages in competitive multiplayer. Instead, you can support us by purchasing cosmetics or premium single-player content. Thank you!
Prepare yourself for the ultimate strategy game.
Prismata—the gripping debut from Lunarch Studios—radically redefines the strategy genre by combining elements of real-time strategy, card games, and tabletop strategy games to create something entirely new and unique.
Competing against other humans or ruthlessly efficient AI, you'll plan devastating attacks through a series of quick-fire turns. Will you outwit your opponents by striking at the perfect moment? Or will you fall victim to a devious trap?
Game Modes
Campaign: an enthralling 40-mission story-based single player adventure
Casual Match: play friendly games against other humans or one of 30 different AI personalities
Combat Training: over 50 hand-crafted puzzles and scenarios dripping with fascinating strategy insights
Ranked Play: get paired against opponents of similar skill and compete for a spot on the leaderboards
Custom Games: play bots or friends with fully editable unit pools, time controls, handicaps, AI difficulty, and more
Expert Challenge: ultra-difficult mission variants for players seeking extreme challenges
Event Mode: heart-pounding blitz brawl tourneys and crazy mode-of-the-week events with prizes
The Story
Hundreds of years in the future, humans have engineered a prosperous new civilization on the distant planet Beacon, where the sun never sets. Meanwhile, the planet's frigid dark side has been colonized by an enigmatic faction of intelligent machines that threaten humanity with conflict.
In these new cybernetic times, human soldiers are obsolete. Instead, warfare is conducted swiftly with massive armies of robots. The Swarmwielders—human commanders of these mechanical forces—are the defenders of society, training relentlessly for the day when the machines strike again. However, when their own robots start to mysteriously malfunction, the humans find themselves endangered by something much closer than the machines lurking beyond the fringe.
Features
State-of-the-art enemy AI created by Professor David Churchill, winner of the 2013 StarCraft AI competition
A custom replay browser where you can watch, share, and analyze game replays
New Prismata units added regularly, each with a unique role and purpose in combat
100+ Steam Achievements to unlock
Real-time spectator mode: watch live matches featuring top players
Absolutely zero pay-to-win—no card packs to open; all units are free for all players
Over 500 customizable emotes and 250 awesome unit skins to collect
No randomness! Your fate is determined by your skill alone
Over 100 trillion unique gameplay scenarios, each with a different optimal strategy to discover
Gameplay
In Prismata, you’ll collect resources, create workers and technologies, assemble an all-conquering army, and trade blows with your opponent until one of you is obliterated. Prismata blends elegant turn-based mechanics with the tactical decision-making elements that are at the heart of real-time strategy games.
Featuring simple and intuitive economic and combat systems, Prismata is incredibly easy to learn. However, no two Prismata matches are ever the same. Every game, players get a new pool of extra buildable units that must be used to their fullest potential. There are always new builds to plan and discover, and new threats to respond to. Each battle is fresh and unique.
Containing no pre-built decks, random advantages, or luck-of-the-draw moments, Prismata’s cat-and-mouse duels celebrate quick-fire tactics, deep thinking, and decisive strategy. Will you execute a perfectly-timed attack, or will you build up a monstrous economy and overpower your opponent with a massive army?
Testimonials from supporters and Kickstarter backers:
"Almost nothing comes close to achieving this level of polish, depth, and replayability."
- Kevin "qxc" Riley, retired StarCraft pro-gamer and game designer
"This game is unbelievable. Someone said it’s like Magic the Gathering meets Chess meets Starcraft and they weren't lying." - Paradox Gaming Network
"Full skill, full focus, no RNG. It is beautiful!" - Adrian "Lifecoach" Koy, Hearthstone and Gwent professional
"It's so good. I wake up and I'm like 'Yes, I get to play this game again.' I love it." - Frederick "Freddybabes" Bird, Gwent Challenger, Open, and Slam champion
"I'm over-the-top addicted. Best game I've ever played." - Mike "Timex" McDonald, poker professional
"A game I have been looking for all my life." - Steel_hs
"One of the most intricate, well-thought-out, and best games I have ever played... the first and only game of its unique genre." - Rachenite
"More worthwhile than any other game." - Aetherllama
"Truly unique in its ability to refine RTS and card game themes down to the core strategic decisions without the RNG or APM." - DiamondGP
"Finally, a card game that removes the ‘luck’ aspect." - hepcecob
"When I start Prismata, it feels like my inner child is opening a bottomless toy box that's always holding something new and exciting." - daxtrax
"I honestly feel like a genius after I play a good game." - DDarkray
"Prismata is very approachable, yet there's always more to learn." - zihkrihk
"I'm a filthy casual and I love playing a quick competitive game." - RupertE
IGRS (Indonesia) 15 — Rokok dan/atau rokok elektronik, minuman beralkohol, narkotika, psikotropika, dan/atau zat adiktif lainnya Penggunaan bahasa Kekerasan
Steam (Germany) 12 — Gewalt Alkohol / Tabak Derbe Sprache
Controller required
No
DLC / extras
1 listed on Steam
DRM / EULA
Requires agreement to a 3rd-party EULA Prismata EULA
