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And the more cards you own, the better the game gets, with players able to construct decks that allow for cascading card combos, not to mention outlandish mixes. You could feasibly play this game without any music, but the feeling of “owning” the mix - or having to pause the game because your Frankensteined-together, cross-genre banger is simply too good to ignore - adds a brilliant reactivity to just playing cards.

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Alongside those, players can swap one of their two actions per turn to smack the pleasingly chunky DropMix button, a risk-reward measure that spins a roulette wheel that /could/ force your opponent to discard cards (and points) on the board - plus frees up the canvas for an entirely new mix. Effects cards can be played anywhere on the board, and can change various elements of your hand, existing stems or points totals. It’s a simple game complicated beautifully by a couple of factors.

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You do this by placing new stems, filling empty card types and taking over the full board, while attempting to stop your opponent from doing the same. A 1v1 or 2v2 competitive game where players construct or use pre-made decks in a race to earn 21 points. You’re playing co-operatively for a high score (all tracked by the app, thankfully), while making a single, evolving track in the background.ĭropMix is at its best with Clash, though.

The game calls out elements of cards - card colour, type of instrument, or invented ‘power ratings’ - and the group has to check their hand to meet that request as quickly as possible. Party’s the simpler of the two, allowing up to five players to play the most distractingly cool game of Go Fish ever conceived. Alongside a Freestyle option, DropMix comes with two game modes, Clash and Party. It’s a discovery tool of sorts, too - for instance I’ve found out that every song in the world is made better by Sean Paul’s vocals from ‘Temperature’. I’ve turned Evanescence into an electro-pop act, morphed Duck Sauce’s ‘Barbara Streisand’ into an apocalyptic march, and made Ed Sheeran sound close to likeable. With absolutely no skill required, anyone holding a stack of DropMix cards can create genuinely excellent (or at the very least interesting) music. Harmonix has brought its years of experience with repurposing licensed tracks, and created its most ludicrous, amazing feat of musical engineering yet. It is, frankly, incredible how well all of this works. Stems can be vocals, lead melody, rhythm sections, percussion or, best of all, cards that can be any of the four, and reconfigure the entire mix around them after a breakdown - there’s nothing like hearing the “ooh-AH-AH-AH-AH” of Disturbed’s Down With the Sickness absolutely destroy and then assimilate Gloria Gaynor. Add up to five stems and you’ll have created a full song, perfectly in sync and, often, good enough to save to the game’s memory to be played back later. It’s a very neat system - the NFC chipped cards respond to being placed on the board near-instantly and, brilliantly, the game always knows which card is on top of a stack, meaning you don’t need to remove stems to place new ones.