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Love Letter is a push-your-luck card game about winning the princess's affection. You use cards with different abilities to knock out the other suitors. With a small number of cards and characters, it's as much about gaining information about what other players have, as simply having the winning card.
Unfortunately, Love Letter is not available on Android, Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox X|S or iOS. However, we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme:
Release Date: 01/01/2012, updated in 2019
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Players: 2-6
Genres: Communication, Push-Your-Luck (Battle, Collecting and Sequencing)
Accessibility: 0 features documented (Tweet Developer )
Components: Cards and Tokens
Developer: Z Man Games (@ZManGames_)
Costs: Purchase cost
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Codenames is a team communication game where you play two competing spy networks. One player in each team gives clues to help them find the cards that are their agents without hitting the assassin.
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