Outcast Odyssey, a card battler with dungeon crawler elements, is available for download worldwide

Outcast Odyssey, for those of you who haven't heard of or played it, is a rather interesting iPhone, iPad, and soon-to-be Android title from developers Magic Pixel Games and Bandai Namco Games America.

It's interesting because it takes the best features of dungeon crawler games and mashes them together with the best features of the card battler genre to create a fast-paced adventure title that's set in a fantasy world full of monsters and magic.

Your aim in Outcast Odyssey is to explore the colourful world around you, collecting treasures and uncovering monsters along the way.

The monsters you encounter can be defeated in RPG-like battles with the 'explosive' powers of the hundreds of hand-drawn (by acclaimed artists like Chuck Pires and Warren Louw) cards you can collect.

Naturally, you can enhance and even evolve your cards as you progress through the game in order to make them more powerful. According to the game's developers, 'stunning' particle and parallax effects bring your cards to life.

Outcast Odyssey doesn't just encourage you to engage in combat with monsters, mind. It features a PvP mode that allows you to compete against other players, for example, and you can even earn weekly prizes for being the most powerful outcast in the realm.

Furthermore, you can create and join your very own guilds with other players, and battle outcasts from opposing guilds in the game's arena for 'great rewards'.

Outcast Odyssey is now available to download worldwide for free on iPhone and iPad [download], so be sure to pick it up. It'll be available on Android-powered smartphones and tablets soon.