A great card game is coming to Steam &ndash don t believe the Munchkin haters TechRadar Skip to main content TechRadar is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here's why you can trust us. A great card game is coming to Steam &ndash don t believe the Munchkin haters By Callum Bains published 7 September 2022 Ready your Magic Missile (Image credit: Dire Wolf Digital) Audio player loading… Hit tabletop card game Munchkin is being adapted into a video game, bringing the classic, if slightly derided, dungeon-delver to Steam later this year. A tongue-in-cheek dungeon-crawler – which we just so happen to think is one of the best card games around – Munchkin puts you in the shoes of an upstart adventurer. You and your party of competitive wannabe heroes will take turns attacking satirical creatures, collecting a whole lotta loot, and discovering various magical items. It's all very silly. Munchkin is essentially one big spoof that takes aim at the self-indulgence of classic high fantasy games like Dungeons & Dragons. You'll be using items like the Horny Helmet and Staff of Napalm to defeat equally weird creatures with names like Plutonium Dragon and Floating Nose. This upcoming digital adaptation, set to release this fall, looks like a faithful recreation of the original card game. As announced (opens in new tab) by developer Dire Wolf Digital, it'll let you play online multiplayer games of Munchkin, or a series of solo challenges, across PC, Android, and iOS devices. Even its cartoonish art style looks to have been directly carried over. Divisive dungeon crawling Although Munchkin has been one of the more popular tabletop card games of the last twenty years, it's gained a fairly divisive reputation. It's often spotlighted as a fantastic gateway game for those new to the hobby. Its straightforward rules can be picked up quickly, its art is charming, and it leans into a lot of mechanics players might be familiar with from video games. It also encourages a lot of player interaction. Between kicking down dungeon doors, you'll be taking every opportunity to stab your friends in the back. Much of the game consists of effectively blackmailing your way to victory, as you throw monsters at your friends to coerce them into asking for aid, taking their treasure for yourself. Expect to make lots of underhand dealings, before inevitably breaking those promises to earn a bigger share of the loot-laden pie. But then there are those who swear against Munchkin, panning it as an over-simplistic game with a long playtime. Elements are unbalanced, and the reams of spin-off expansions – adding everything from more cards, to a Warhammer 40k theme – certainly hasn't improved the game's image. The novelty of its faux-fantasy world might wear off eventually, but don't write off Munchkin as a total joke. At its heart is a quick-firing dungeon-crawler that's as good at making you laugh as it is testing your friendships. One for those who prefer silliness over strategy. This adaptation is certainly in good hands. Dire Wolf has developed several digital board game adaptations in the past, including asymmetric strategy game Root, charming city-builder Everdell, and the Game of Thrones board game. They've all been well received for comprehensively porting the original board games into a slick digital interface.The Callisto Protocol builds on the organic scares of Alien Isolation Callum BainsGaming News WriterCallum is TechRadar Gaming's News Writer. You'll find him whipping up stories about all the latest happenings in the gaming world, as well as penning the odd feature and review. Before coming to TechRadar, he wrote freelance for various sites, including Clash, The Telegraph, and Gamesindustry.biz, and worked as a Staff Writer at Wargamer. Strategy games and RPGs are his bread and butter, but he'll eat anything that spins a captivating narrative. He also loves tabletop games, and will happily chew your ear off about TTRPGs and board games. See more Gaming news TechRadar Newsletter Sign up to get breaking news, reviews, opinion, analysis and more, plus the hottest tech deals! Thank you for signing up to TechRadar. You will receive a verification email shortly. There was a problem. Please refresh the page and try again. MOST POPULARMOST SHARED1The iPhone 14 Pro is made of the wrong stuff; the Pixel 7 proves that to me2Stop saying Mario doesn't have an accent in The Super Mario Bros. Movie3Google Pixel Tablet is what Apple should've done ages ago4RTX 4090 too expensive? 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