A Strategic Dwarven Plate Game
Two dwarves duel on a 6×6 grid. Place your plates, pit side against side, and capture everything you outmatch. No luck, no mana — just sharp positioning, cascading combos, and plates that shatter when worn down. Whoever holds the most when the board fills wins.
Five Houses · One Grid
Learn it in 30 seconds
Three rules. That's the whole game.
Gain the most plates by the time the grid is full, and you win.
Place beside an enemy — your touching side vs theirs. The greater side wins. Ties stay put.
3 lives
2 lives
shatterA plate in your way? Flip its control 3 times — through placements and combos — to shatter it and free the slot.
When your house holds the advantage over an enemy's, each capture rechecks every neighbor — a single plate can set off a chain reaction that flips half the board. Wearing a plate down through repeated flips is how you finally shatter it.
Choose Your Forge
Every plate belongs to a house, and each house carries its strength on different sides of the plate. Learn where your edge lies — and where you're exposed.
Balanced on every side with a subtle right-side lean. No exploitable weakness — anchor the flank and grind opponents down.
Devastating top-and-bottom, vulnerable left-and-right. Win through positioning — outplay, don't outmuscle.
A top-and-right assault with an exposed left flank. Strike from below to lead with your dominant top edge.
A bottom-and-right fortress, weak up top and to the left. Lock the right side and hold ground until the grid fills.
Every plate is a different puzzle with no predictable axis. Unreadable placements that punish assumptions.
Real plates, real numbers
45 plates span the five houses — nine tiers each, from Common up to Legendary. Every plate carries four side values between 2 and 8, and higher tiers pack a bigger budget across those sides. These are the genuine plates straight from the game's lexicon.
Every plate enters with 3 lives. Each flip steps its frame down a rank — Legendary → Rare → Common — and on the third flip it shatters off the board. Lives travel with the plate no matter who controls it, so a plate that keeps trading hands shatters sooner.
Forge your name
Every match feeds six global, all-time leaderboards. Climb them solo against the AI or in real-time online duels — your best runs are ranked against every dwarf on Steam.
Most plates captured in a single match against the AI.
Longest unbroken win streak against the AI.
Most plates captured in a single online match.
Longest unbroken win streak in online play.
The largest single chain reaction you've ever triggered.
Your cumulative points earned across every match played.
Built for competitive integrity
Online matches resolve every placement, capture, and chain on the server. The client shows the result — it never decides it.
No mana, no energy, no purchasable power. Every plate is earned through play, and skill on the grid decides the winner.
Sharpen up against the AI offline, then queue for real-time PvP — the same forged-on-the-grid rules either way.
Five houses await at the anvil. Add Gridhammer to your Steam wishlist and be there when the grid lights up.
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