{"id":2027691,"date":"2026-07-05T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2027691"},"modified":"2026-07-05T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T06:00:00","slug":"bibidi-bibidi-is-a-wizardly-card-battler-with-real-magic-in-its-veins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2027691","title":{"rendered":"Bibidi Bibidi! is a wizardly card battler with real magic in its veins"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"features\" data-article-group=\"feature\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Home<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/features\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Features<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/bibidi-bibidi\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Bibidi Bibidi!<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_details\" id=\"main-content\">\n<h1 class=\"title\">Bibidi Bibidi! is a wizardly card battler with real magic in its veins<\/h1>\n<p class=\"strapline\">Add it to your whist list.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_asset\">\n<figure class=\"headline_image_wrapper\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"headline_image\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/bibidi-bibidi-header-2.jpg?width=690&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;dpr=3&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Bibidi Bibidi official screenshot showing several strange monster enemies including one who looks like a hand with eyes, in cartoon style, as you play cards against them in a weird wizard&apos;s library environment\" loading=\"eager\" data-uri=\"bibidi-bibidi-header-2.jpg\" data-lightbox width=\"690\" height=\"388\"><figcaption>\n          <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Indiana-Jonas, Daan<\/cite><\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"avatar\">\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Christian Donlan avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/christian-donlan.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1017\"><\/p>\n<p>  <img alt=\"Christian Donlan avatar\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"christian-donlan.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1017\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"byline\">\n                  <span class=\"article_type\" data-slug=\"features\"><br \/>\n                    Feature<br \/>\n                  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/authors\/christian-donlan\">Christian Donlan<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"job_title\"><br \/>\n                      Contributing Editor<br \/>\n                    <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"published_at\">\nPublished on <time datetime=\"2026-07-05T09:00:00+00:00\">July 5, 2026<\/time>              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mypop-header-wrapper\">\n<p><button class=\"mypop-button button wide\" data-state=\"follow\" data-type=\"tag\" data-uuid=\"2c4d0b0d-6f68-4664-8ce8-aea55f60b022\" data-name=\"Bibidi Bibidi!\" data-follow-text=\"Follow Bibidi Bibidi!\" data-unfollow-text=\"Following Bibidi Bibidi!\" data-aria-follow-text=\"Follow Bibidi Bibidi!\" data-aria-unfollow-text=\"Following Bibidi Bibidi!\" data-popup=\"true\" data-force-login=\"true\" aria-label=\"Follow Bibidi Bibidi!\" title=\"Follow Bibidi Bibidi!\"><br \/>\n  Follow Bibidi Bibidi!<br \/>\n<\/button>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>Alongside its intriguing name and its excellent lineage, Bibidi Bibidi has a wonderful central conceit.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"aside right\">\n<h2>Bibidi Bibidi<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Indiana-Jonas, Daan<\/li>\n<li><strong>Developer:<\/strong> Indiana-Jonas, Daan<\/li>\n<li><strong>Platform:<\/strong> Played on PC<\/li>\n<li><strong>Availability:<\/strong> Out TBC on PC (<a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/3540660\/Bibidi_Bibidi\/\">Steam<\/a>), but with a demo out now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p>That lineage first: half the team behind this Roguelite deckbuilder previously made Surmount, an anarchic and kinetic game about steadily flinging yourself up a mountain. Bibidi Bibidi keeps a lot of Surmount&#8217;s barely-contained nature intact. To play it is to feel that you&#8217;re dealing with unstable elements, any of which could explode without warning.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s a good thing, because Bibidi Bibidi is a game about taking a wizard into battle, and wizards should probably feel unstable and a little dangerous. And we&#8217;ve arrived at the conceit! The big idea here is that you play your cards to create spells, so you&#8217;re effectively making a single card from three existing cards. Confusing? Not really. Here&#8217;s how it works.<\/p>\n<p>Each card in Bibidi Bibidi has three sections. At the top, and often left empty, there&#8217;s the Boon section, which tells you what additional magic this card allows for. So maybe it grants a shield, or maybe it allows you to attack two enemies at once.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"image_wrapper\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bibidi Bibidi screenshot showing you zapping enemies in cartoon style against a green background\" height=\"1082\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/Bibidi-Bibidi-18.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7744916820702403\" width=\"1920\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Bibidi Bibidi screenshot showing you zapping enemies in cartoon style against a green background\" data-autosize=\"bounds_lossy\" data-uri=\"Bibidi-Bibidi-18.jpg\" height=\"1082\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7744916820702403\" width=\"1920\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"loading spinner large\"><\/span><\/p>\n<nav class=\"pagination--hoverable\">\n<div class=\"previous\">\n<button class=\"button pagination-button\"><br \/>\n<span aria-label=\"Previous\" class=\"icon\" role=\"img\" style=\")\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/button>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"next\">\n<button class=\"button pagination-button\"><br \/>\n<span aria-label=\"Next\" class=\"icon\" role=\"img\" style=\")\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/button>\n<\/div>\n<\/nav>\n<div class=\"details_overlay\">\n<div class=\"counter\">\n<span class=\"current\">1<\/span> <span class=\"of\">of<\/span> <span class=\"max\">3<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"details\">\n<div class=\"button-wrapper\">\n<button aria-label=\"Toggle information\" class=\"toggle button outline\"><\/button><br \/>\n<button aria-label=\"Close fullscreen gallery\" class=\"close button\"><\/button>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"thumbnails-wrapper overflow-shadow-x\">\n<div class=\"thumbnails\">\n<button class=\"thumbnail active\" data-attribution=\"Indiana-Jonas, Daan \/ Eurogamer\" data-uri=\"Bibidi-Bibidi-18.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bibidi Bibidi screenshot showing you zapping enemies in cartoon style against a green background\" height=\"1082\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/Bibidi-Bibidi-18.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1920\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Bibidi Bibidi screenshot showing you zapping enemies in cartoon style against a green background\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"Bibidi-Bibidi-18.jpg\" height=\"1082\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1920\"><br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<button class=\"thumbnail\" data-attribution=\"Indiana-Jonas, Daan \/ Eurogamer\" data-uri=\"Bibidi-Bibidi-4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bibidi Bibidi screenshot showing you choosing cards to play against two cartoon enemies\" height=\"1082\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/Bibidi-Bibidi-4.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1920\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Bibidi Bibidi screenshot showing you choosing cards to play against two cartoon enemies\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"Bibidi-Bibidi-4.jpg\" height=\"1082\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1920\"><br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<button class=\"thumbnail\" data-attribution=\"Indiana-Jonas, Daan \/ Eurogamer\" data-uri=\"Bibidi-Bibidi-9.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bibidi Bibidi screenshot showing you taking on several enemies against a green background\" height=\"1082\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/Bibidi-Bibidi-9.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1920\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Bibidi Bibidi screenshot showing you taking on several enemies against a green background\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"Bibidi-Bibidi-9.jpg\" height=\"1082\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1920\"><br \/>\n<\/button>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fullscreen_info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<span class=\"label\"><br \/>\nCaption          <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"attribution\">\n<span class=\"label\"><br \/>\nAttribution          <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-gallery-caption\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"advert_container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Below the Boon is the School, which tells you which flavour of attack this is. Zap deals damage. Know brings new cards into your hand (I think; I tend to avoid it) and Bubble creates a shield around you. These are all very early cards, by the way.<\/p>\n<p>Below the School is the Force, which is a number that indicates how much damage Zap does, for example, or how much of a shield Bubble grants you.<\/p>\n<p>So the idea &#8211; and I love it &#8211; is to look at your hand, and then construct the card you want to play from parts of three of the cards you have in your hand. You&#8217;re basically casting a spell from separate components.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bibidi Bibidi screenshot showing a kind of demonic shopkeeper in cartoon style\" height=\"1082\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/Bibidi-Bibidi-14.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7744916820702403\" width=\"1920\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Bibidi Bibidi screenshot showing a kind of demonic shopkeeper in cartoon style\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-lightbox data-uri=\"Bibidi-Bibidi-14.jpg\" height=\"1082\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7744916820702403\" width=\"1920\"><figcaption><span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Indiana-Jonas, Daan \/ Eurogamer<\/cite><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An example: you want to do damage to the enemy in front of you, but you&#8217;re also running low on health, and if your enemy survives your attack, they&#8217;ll attack you in return. So for the Boon I select a card that gives me additional shielding. For the School I select Zap to do damage, and for the Force, I choose the remaining card with the highest number: a three in this case. So I&#8217;ve made a card that does three damage and also grants me one shield.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This gets complicated, of course, when you have multiple things you want to do and the cards won&#8217;t line up. Maybe the best Boon is also on the only card that has Zap as its School: you&#8217;re going to need to choose between using that card for the Boon or the School. Throw in enemy attacks that don&#8217;t just do damage but mess with your cards &#8211; flipping them around or setting them on fire so they do damage to you when cast &#8211; and you have a game with a lot of tricky decisions, even in the early stages.<\/p>\n<figure data-count=\"2\" role=\"group\">\n<figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bibidi Bibidi screenshot showing a screen with three cards to choose from\" height=\"1082\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/Bibidi-Bibidi-6.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7744916820702403\" width=\"1920\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Bibidi Bibidi screenshot showing a screen with three cards to choose from\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-lightbox data-uri=\"Bibidi-Bibidi-6.jpg\" height=\"1082\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7744916820702403\" width=\"1920\"><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bibidi Bibidi screenshot showing a screen where you combine cards\" height=\"1082\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/Bibidi-Bibidi-19.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7744916820702403\" width=\"1920\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Bibidi Bibidi screenshot showing a screen where you combine cards\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-lightbox data-uri=\"Bibidi-Bibidi-19.jpg\" height=\"1082\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7744916820702403\" width=\"1920\"><\/p>\n<\/figure><figcaption><span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Indiana-Jonas, Daan \/ Eurogamer<\/cite><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>All of this is delivered with bright colours and thick-lined, characterful enemy designs. It&#8217;s a little like wandering through a playable kids&#8217; book, but one of the really good ones that wants to scare the reader just a little bit. At the end of each battle you can select a new card to add to your deck, and occasionally you&#8217;ll come across shops on a run. When you&#8217;re finally defeated, you&#8217;re told that you Bibidied, which is pretty much perfection.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"2\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I love the ingenuity of this game, but also the detailing. Each part of a spell you make also triggers a different part of an incantation your on-screen wizard lets rip with, so you can defeat deadly foes with a scream of Bibbidi-oo-Alakazam or some-such brilliant nonsense. There&#8217;s a playable demo out now on Steam, and even if this isn&#8217;t your thing, it still does double duty as a reminder to check out Surmount, which is proper magic all by itself.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>Alongside its intriguing name and its excellent lineage, Bibidi Bibidi has a wonderful central conceit.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"aside right\">\n<h2>Bibidi Bibidi<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Indiana-Jonas, Daan<\/li>\n<li><strong>Developer:<\/strong> Indiana-Jonas, Daan<\/li>\n<li><strong>Platform:<\/strong> Played on PC<\/li>\n<li><strong>Availability:<\/strong> Out TBC on PC (<a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/3540660\/Bibidi_Bibidi\/\">Steam<\/a>), but with a demo out now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p>That lineage first: half the team behind this Roguelite deckbuilder previously made Surmount, an anarchic and kinetic game about steadily flinging yourself up a mountain. Bibidi Bibidi keeps a lot of Surmount&#8217;s barely-contained nature intact. To play it is to feel that you&#8217;re dealing with unstable elements, any of which could explode without warning.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s a good thing, because Bibidi Bibidi is a game about taking a wizard into battle, and wizards should probably feel unstable and a little dangerous. And we&#8217;ve arrived at the conceit! The big idea here is that you play your cards to create spells, so you&#8217;re effectively making a single card from three existing cards. Confusing? Not really. Here&#8217;s how it works.<\/p>\n<p>Each card in Bibidi Bibidi has three sections. At the top, and often left empty, there&#8217;s the Boon section, which tells you what additional magic this card allows for. So maybe it grants a shield, or maybe it allows you to attack two enemies at once.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"image_wrapper\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bibidi Bibidi screenshot showing you zapping enemies in cartoon style against a green background\" height=\"1082\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/Bibidi-Bibidi-18.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7744916820702403\" width=\"1920\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Bibidi Bibidi screenshot showing you zapping enemies in cartoon style against a green background\" data-autosize=\"bounds_lossy\" data-uri=\"Bibidi-Bibidi-18.jpg\" height=\"1082\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7744916820702403\" width=\"1920\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"loading spinner large\"><\/span><\/p>\n<nav class=\"pagination--hoverable\">\n<div class=\"previous\">\n<button class=\"button pagination-button\"><br \/>\n<span aria-label=\"Previous\" class=\"icon\" role=\"img\" style=\")\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/button>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"next\">\n<button class=\"button pagination-button\"><br \/>\n<span aria-label=\"Next\" class=\"icon\" role=\"img\" style=\")\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/button>\n<\/div>\n<\/nav>\n<div class=\"details_overlay\">\n<div class=\"counter\">\n<span class=\"current\">1<\/span> <span class=\"of\">of<\/span> <span class=\"max\">3<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"details\">\n<div class=\"button-wrapper\">\n<button aria-label=\"Toggle information\" class=\"toggle button outline\"><\/button><br \/>\n<button aria-label=\"Close fullscreen gallery\" class=\"close button\"><\/button>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"thumbnails-wrapper overflow-shadow-x\">\n<div class=\"thumbnails\">\n<button class=\"thumbnail active\" data-attribution=\"Indiana-Jonas, Daan \/ Eurogamer\" data-uri=\"Bibidi-Bibidi-18.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bibidi Bibidi screenshot showing you zapping enemies in cartoon style against a green background\" height=\"1082\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/Bibidi-Bibidi-18.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1920\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Bibidi Bibidi screenshot showing you zapping enemies in cartoon style against a green background\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"Bibidi-Bibidi-18.jpg\" height=\"1082\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1920\"><br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<button class=\"thumbnail\" data-attribution=\"Indiana-Jonas, Daan \/ Eurogamer\" data-uri=\"Bibidi-Bibidi-4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bibidi Bibidi screenshot showing you choosing cards to play against two cartoon enemies\" height=\"1082\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/Bibidi-Bibidi-4.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1920\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Bibidi Bibidi screenshot showing you choosing cards to play against two cartoon enemies\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"Bibidi-Bibidi-4.jpg\" height=\"1082\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1920\"><br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<button class=\"thumbnail\" data-attribution=\"Indiana-Jonas, Daan \/ Eurogamer\" data-uri=\"Bibidi-Bibidi-9.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bibidi Bibidi screenshot showing you taking on several enemies against a green background\" height=\"1082\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/Bibidi-Bibidi-9.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1920\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Bibidi Bibidi screenshot showing you taking on several enemies against a green background\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"Bibidi-Bibidi-9.jpg\" height=\"1082\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1920\"><br \/>\n<\/button>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fullscreen_info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<span class=\"label\"><br \/>\nCaption          <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"attribution\">\n<span class=\"label\"><br \/>\nAttribution          <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-gallery-caption\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"advert_container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Below the Boon is the School, which tells you which flavour of attack this is. Zap deals damage. Know brings new cards into your hand (I think; I tend to avoid it) and Bubble creates a shield around you. These are all very early cards, by the way.<\/p>\n<p>Below the School is the Force, which is a number that indicates how much damage Zap does, for example, or how much of a shield Bubble grants you.<\/p>\n<p>So the idea &#8211; and I love it &#8211; is to look at your hand, and then construct the card you want to play from parts of three of the cards you have in your hand. You&#8217;re basically casting a spell from separate components.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bibidi Bibidi screenshot showing a kind of demonic shopkeeper in cartoon style\" height=\"1082\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/Bibidi-Bibidi-14.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7744916820702403\" width=\"1920\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Bibidi Bibidi screenshot showing a kind of demonic shopkeeper in cartoon style\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-lightbox data-uri=\"Bibidi-Bibidi-14.jpg\" height=\"1082\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7744916820702403\" width=\"1920\"><figcaption><span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Indiana-Jonas, Daan \/ Eurogamer<\/cite><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An example: you want to do damage to the enemy in front of you, but you&#8217;re also running low on health, and if your enemy survives your attack, they&#8217;ll attack you in return. So for the Boon I select a card that gives me additional shielding. For the School I select Zap to do damage, and for the Force, I choose the remaining card with the highest number: a three in this case. So I&#8217;ve made a card that does three damage and also grants me one shield.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This gets complicated, of course, when you have multiple things you want to do and the cards won&#8217;t line up. Maybe the best Boon is also on the only card that has Zap as its School: you&#8217;re going to need to choose between using that card for the Boon or the School. Throw in enemy attacks that don&#8217;t just do damage but mess with your cards &#8211; flipping them around or setting them on fire so they do damage to you when cast &#8211; and you have a game with a lot of tricky decisions, even in the early stages.<\/p>\n<figure data-count=\"2\" role=\"group\">\n<figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bibidi Bibidi screenshot showing a screen with three cards to choose from\" height=\"1082\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/Bibidi-Bibidi-6.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7744916820702403\" width=\"1920\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Bibidi Bibidi screenshot showing a screen with three cards to choose from\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-lightbox data-uri=\"Bibidi-Bibidi-6.jpg\" height=\"1082\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7744916820702403\" width=\"1920\"><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bibidi Bibidi screenshot showing a screen where you combine cards\" height=\"1082\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/Bibidi-Bibidi-19.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7744916820702403\" width=\"1920\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Bibidi Bibidi screenshot showing a screen where you combine cards\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-lightbox data-uri=\"Bibidi-Bibidi-19.jpg\" height=\"1082\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.7744916820702403\" width=\"1920\"><\/p>\n<\/figure><figcaption><span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Indiana-Jonas, Daan \/ Eurogamer<\/cite><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>All of this is delivered with bright colours and thick-lined, characterful enemy designs. It&#8217;s a little like wandering through a playable kids&#8217; book, but one of the really good ones that wants to scare the reader just a little bit. At the end of each battle you can select a new card to add to your deck, and occasionally you&#8217;ll come across shops on a run. When you&#8217;re finally defeated, you&#8217;re told that you Bibidied, which is pretty much perfection.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"2\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I love the ingenuity of this game, but also the detailing. Each part of a spell you make also triggers a different part of an incantation your on-screen wizard lets rip with, so you can defeat deadly foes with a scream of Bibbidi-oo-Alakazam or some-such brilliant nonsense. There&#8217;s a playable demo out now on Steam, and even if this isn&#8217;t your thing, it still does double duty as a reminder to check out Surmount, which is proper magic all by itself.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home Features Bibidi Bibidi! Bibidi Bibidi! is a wizardly card battler with real magic in its veins Add it to your whist list. Image credit: Indiana-Jonas, Daan Feature by Christian Donlan Contributing Editor Published on July 5, 2026 Follow Bibidi Bibidi! Alongside its intriguing name and its excellent lineage, Bibidi Bibidi has a wonderful central [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,253],"class_list":["post-2027691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-eurogamer-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2027691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2027691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2027691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2027691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}