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Kantai Collection

Kantai Collection is a Japanese free-to-play web browser game. The gameplay is centered upon building squadrons composed of individual characters represented as cards with different attributes, and then…

23 April 2013

Kantai Collection is a card & board game developed by Kadokawa Games, released 23 April 2013 on Web browser.

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What Kantai Collection is

Kantai Collection is a card & board game game developed by Kadokawa Games and released in 2013. It was published by DMM.com. It is available on Web browser only. It runs on PixiJS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The "shipgirls" are girls who carry in their bodies the souls of the naval vessels of the past. They are the only ones who can stand up to the "deep-sea dwellers," a group of hostile vessels born from the bottom of the sea, and they are in the battle to protect the people and the sea. However, they were either wounded or killed in the face of the overwhelmingly massive deep-water fleet, and the tide of the war was swinging sharply. In the midst of all this, the destroyer "Shigure" was assigned to a new fleet. The new fleet to which she is assigned is the "First Ranger Unit" and its "Third Unit" (1YB3H). However, the fleet was a "mish-mash" of the old battleships "Yamashiro" and " Fusou,"…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are historical and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Kantai Collection series

Kantai Collection is the first of 3 entries we hold in the Kantai Collection series. The next entry was KanColle Kai in 2016.

See all 3 Kantai Collection games in release order →

What it launched against

Kantai Collection launched on 23 April 2013, within three weeks of Metro: Last Light, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon and Age of Empires II HD.

Released around the same time: Metro: Last Light, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, Age of Empires II HD.

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When did Kantai Collection come out?
Kantai Collection was released on 23 April 2013 for Web browser.

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