I’m always interested in fighting games on mobile not just because it’s a genre I love on other platforms, but specifically because I think it’s interesting to see developers come up with ways to adapt that type of game to a touchscreen without just having an abundance of virtual buttons splattered all over the screen. Games like Skullgirls Mobile, Marvel Contest of Champions, and Injustice have really paved the way for this streamlined style of fighting game by automating a portion of the character movement and replacing the often complicated button inputs of most traditional fighting games with simpler tap and swipe gestures or special move icons.

While this eliminates the skill element of a player having to learn and be able to pull off moves, it does harness elements that are perhaps even more at the heart of the fighting game genre, and that’s timing and reading your opponent. Knowing when and where to deploy certain moves during a match is critical, and that’s something you need to take into account even if you’re simply tapping a special move button instead of a QCF+HP x 2. This looks to be the crux of the upcoming fighting game from developer True Axion Interactive and publisher Bushiroad International called INVICTUS: Lost Soul. Check out the trailer.
So as you can see, there is a heavy deck-building element to INVICTUS: Lost Soul, which isn’t surprising as Bushiroad’s roots are in the collectible card genre....