The Spoils tutorial menus riff on this with a cute but mildly unsettling image of a sinking ship.

I’ve barely scratched the surface of Saltsea Chronicles, whichKatharine has written about in depth.

Spoils isn’t Nicklin’s creation.

A round of cardgame Spoils in Saltsea Chronicles, with four cards in play.

“I sort of put them all together to work on this card game,” Nicklin says.

“And they just took the brief and really ran with it.”

But mini-games can be helpful too.

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You don’t have to play cards, again.

“And if you don’t engage with the card game, you’ll miss out on some achievements.

But you won’t lose out on a central part of the game.

A dialogue screen frmo Saltsea Chronicles, with two characters about to play a round of cards.

Nicklin is deeply impressed by how Labusova and Radu have designed Spoils to further various facets of Saltsea Chronicles.

I think they did a wonderful job.

The rest was absolutely down to those four.”

An image of a round of cardgame Spoils in Saltsea Chronicles, with one player saying “Oops!"

Disclosure: Hannah Nicklin has written for RPS as a contributor in the past.

An image of a round of cardgame Spoils in Saltsea Chronicles, with one player saying “Does this help?"