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There's not many games that let you play as a dragon. Not a cute, almost human-like dragon such as Spyro, or a human that turns into a dragon like Divinity 2. Normal, fire-breathing, princess-stealing, loot-gathering, town-torching dragons are fairly absent from the rosters of gaming protagonists. Their actions are a bit hard to justify in a story-focused game, after all. Hoard aims to change that. Not the story bit, as the game is almost entirely arcade-like, but rather the playing as a mostly evil dragon part. Flying around and torching everything from towns to ogres has never been this satisfying, and Hoard has quickly become one of our favorite short-session games. Pop in, play for a few minutes, pop out. It's brilliantly designed, fairly cheap, and visually stunning. We found it difficult not to immediately love Hoard straight from the get-go.

Not many games let you play as the dragon terrorizing the countryside rather than the heroic knight. Hoard does, though! This trailer depicts the various things you can expect to do, such as gather gold, kidnap royalty, and fight other dragons for loot. Overall it's informative and entertaining, and makes us genuinely look forward to the game's April 4th release on Steam. After all, it's quite unique looking!

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Last August we reported that Hoard, a downloadable game originally released for the PS3, was also slated for release for the PC and Mac as well. Today the game's developer Big Sandwich Games announced that the PC and Mac ports would be released via Steam on April 4.

The strategy-action game, which allows the player to take the role of a dragon in a fantasy world, will have some extra content for its PC and Mac debut including new maps, a new Winter tile site, a new gameplay mode (Night Mode) and cross-platform multiplayer for PC and Mac gamers. Hoard will regularly sell for $9.99 but when pre-orders begin on March 21 the price will be cut by 25 percent.