ANZHAN is an abstract board game where every piece is hiding what it is
A hidden-identity strategy game for iPhone and iPad where Humans heal, Demons strike first and Angels expose whatever sits beside them.
By Priya Raman, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
ANZHAN looks like a game of Go that has been told a secret. The board is a cream card scattered with gold dots, joined by faint lines into a triangular lattice, and the pieces are glossy discs in teal, slate, plum, ochre and black. What the screenshots cannot show, by design, is what any of those discs actually is. That is the whole hook. The developer describes ANZHAN as an original abstract strategy board game built on hidden piece identities, deception and asymmetric abilities, for two to seven players. You can see where an opponent plays. You cannot see what they played. Three identitie...