In Hidden Dimension you take control of a baseship, capable of launching ships, deploying structures and performing various actions. These ships, structures and actions are represented by cards. Ships are used to defend your baseship against attacks from your opponent, but they can also attack your opponent’s base or ships. Structures are upgrades of your base that mainly provide you with the energy needed to launch your ships or perform actions, but can also increase the defensive or offensive potential of your base. Actions provide you with various ways of harming your opponent or upgrading your ships and much more.

You will encounter up to eight different races in Hidden Dimensions, each having their own cards, represented by a unique colour and preferred energy type. You can have a maximum of 7 ships and 5 structures on the field at once. The structures remain attached to your base, while the ships will defend it against attacks from your opponent. To the right you have a panel showing how much of each energy type you currently have available. At the bottom left you can see how much HP your base has left and how many cards are left in your deck. Next to that you see the maximum 8 cards you currently have in your hand. To launch a ship, click the card in your hand and a number of locations on the field will light up, provided you have enough energy to play the card, then choose the location where you want to have this ship launched. Structures are deployed in a similar way. Some actions require targets, when you perform them, all valid targets will light up and you can choose one of those. When you have finished preparing your defence and are ready to attack, press the “end turn” button or press the spacebar. All ships capable of attacking will either attack the ship in front of them, or attack your opponent’s base when it’s not defended by ships. The two numbers in the top-left corner of a ship card refer to the ship’s attack (how much damage the ship can do) and defence (how much damage the ship can take before it’s destroyed). Ships and structures can have up to 3 abilities. To find out about them, mouse over the card in your hand or in play. Certain abilities are only activated once, when the ship enters play. For instance the “Vector”: its ability allows it to attack the same turn it was launched. Most ships can not attack in their first turn. Repeating abilities are activated at the start of each turn, automatically. You’ll find that all energy generating structures will deliver their resources at the start of your turn. Finally, there are activatable abilities. If a structure or ship has one of these, a small icon will appear on the card’s image while in play. If the icon is glowing, you can use the ability. Most of them require some energy however.

A deck can have no less than 30 and no more than 60 cards. Any cards can be used up to 4 times in the same deck. Be sure to have a mix of low-cost ships and actions as well as heavier ships. To make sure you’ll have enough resources throughout the fight, having about 3 energy generating structures for every 5 to 7 other cards is recommended. The random deck generator can create thousands of different decks based on the strength and strategies of the races and will provide a good starting point to get to know the different races. Several premade decks are included with the game as well and you can of course also create your own decks. Additional cards and races can be unlocked by meeting achievements. The list of achievements and their requirements is listed in the “scores” screen.

Cardlist

Human

Vector 1 Nagato 2 Akata 4 Breaker 7 Hiraga 10 Venom 2 Tarogi 2 Vulture 2 Flare Chaser 2 Firewing 2 Phoenix 12 Solar Harvester 0 Solar Plant 0 Power Plant 0 Flare Spire 2 Antisolar Plant 0 0 Flak Turret 3 Artillery Turret 5 Restoration Field 4 Sun Spire 0 0 Solar Gate 0 0 Cruise Missile 2 Battery 0 Shield Transfer 0 Chainguns 2 Crystal Battery 0 0 Torpedo 6

Ca’anian

Assault Dorgan 1 Thogrom Bomber 3 Plasma Screen 3 Guardian 4 Exion'Exus 8 Tarynn'Ixia 10 Freighter 5 Darkwing 1 1 Neyon'Moru 10 Antimatter Plant 0 Antimatter Storage 0 Ántifusor 0 Dark Energy Tower 2 Solarfusor 0 0 Railgun Turret 4 Adelan Device 10 Crystalline Fusor 0 0 Antimatter Bomb 7 Repair 4 Dark Energy 5 Weaken 2 Fortify 1 Energize 0 Fusion Drain 1 0

Xyloxi

Spark 1 Nebula Scout 1 Emerald Xyloxi 4 Sapphire Xyloxi 4 Ruby Xyloxi 5 Thunder Mage 12 Terror Mage 15 Chyriax 12 Crystal Nagato 1 1 Nebula Shard 0 Towering Crystal 0 Nebula Harvester 0 Shard Tree 2 Prismatic Spire 0 Crystal Shield 4 Nebula Spire 5 Thunder Shard 4 Solar Tree 0 0 Grav Crystal 0 0 Disrupt 2 Crystal Aura 2 Shard Storm 4 Data Crystal 2 Prismatic Crystal 0 Lightning Arc 3 Dark Crystal 0 0

Caes’cix

Salvager 1 Support Drone 2 Cerberus Drone 4 Soldier Drone 4 Shatterer 2 Trasher 2 Berserker 4 Wild Berserker 2 1 Overseer 6 Battle Queen 12 Fusion Plant 0 Fusion Spire 0 Decay Fusor 0 Hivemind Fusor 2 Support Spire 4 Shield Spire 6 Dark Fusor 0 0 Slave Spire 0 0 Sabotage 4 Fusion Bolt 5 Fusion Jet 5 Sacrifice 4 Unstable Capacitor 0 Relentless Assault 10 Mass Regeneration 6 Clone 3 Duel 3 Lifelink 2

Rivi’i

Cargoship 1 Fuel Tanker 3 Battlecruiser 4 Nanobot Carrier 6 Hammerhead 8 Dreadnought 10 Terrornought 6 4 Hydranought 7 5 Ultranought 10 Grav Wave farm 0 Grav Current Buoy 0 Grav Wave Hub 0 Grav Flux Amplifier 2 Wave Convertor 0 0 Nanobot Tower 4 Salvage Yard 2 Obfuscation Tower 3 3 Grav Blind Spot 3 Plasma Blaster 4 Nanobot Swarm 4 Plasma Stream 3 Shatter 10 Ambush 1 Shield Phaser 10 Charge 1 Recall 0

Mith’ri’aeil

Energy Leech 1 Hydramorph 3 Entromorph 2 Adaptomorph 3 Negator 4 Devourer 5 Abomination 4 Assaulter 4 2 Combat Node 3 Entropic Channeler 10 VoidBringer 12 Enslaved Soldier 2 2 Mutating Vector 1 1 Entropic Monolith 0 Morpholith 0 Mind Morpholith 0 Entropy Node 2 Fusion Monolith 0 0 Wave Morpholith 0 0 Entropic Link 3 Armored Growth 3 Growth Spire 5 Entropic Regeneration 6 Energy Shell 1 Shield Morph 6 Regrowth 1 Mutate 5 Space Warp 10

Technomancer

Data Node 1 Attack Barrier 3 Scanner Ghost 1 Radar Silhouette 4 Mirror Shield 4 Technosavant 10 Echo Image 4 Technowall 6 Shimmering Ghost 4 3 MindVirus 3 3 Technomancer 12 Technospire 0 Technogate 0 Recall Gate 0 Virus Spire 2 Virus Barrier 6 Flux Fusiongate 0 0 Rift Echogate 0 0 Hacker Gate 4 Techno Quasar 10 Data Echo 5 Mind Hack 3 Data Feedback 3 Mind Wipe 10 Shield Channel 4 EM Pulse 10 Techno Scan 4 Shield Hack 6

Rift Demon

L Solar Demon 4 L Dark Demon 4 L Nebula Demon 4 L Fusion Demon 4 L Grav Demon 6 L Chaos Demon 2 L Techno Demon 5 L Rift Demon 8 G Solar Demon 10 G Dark Demon 10 G Nebula Demon 10 G Fusion Demon 10 G Grav Demon 12 G Chaos Demon 10 G Techno Demon 10 G Rift Demon 16 Solar Rift 0 0 Dark Rift 0 0 Nebular Rift 0 0 Fusion Rift 0 0 Gravitational Rift 0 0 Entropic Rift 0 0 Dimensional Rift 0 0 Energy Rift 2 Dimensional Link 3 Feedback Link 5 Energy Burst 4 Black Channeler 7 White Channeler 0

Prismatic

Derelict Battleship 5 Prismatic Spark 1 Lesser Prismatic Demon 0 Greater Prismatic Demon 0 Ancient Convertor 0 Data Cube 0 Prismatic Generator 1 Solar Refractor 0 Dark Fission Vault 0 Nebular Flux Driver 0 Fusion Phaser 0 Gravitational Buoy 0 Entropic Siphon 0 Dimensional Sail 0 Elemental Spark 0 Galactic Cookie 3 Questionable Tactics 3 Strategic Advantage 3