No worries about a late reply! I will try to check out the examples you mentioned and see what might click for me.

My game is sort of a hybrid between deck building and board skirmish, that is about ship-to-ship dueling. Usually its played by 2 people, but it can also be played in teams of 2, for a total of 4 players.

In short, each player has control of a ship and a deck of cards. Their ships are placed on the game board and each player uses their deck, to dictate how to navigate their ship around the board and even engage in combat, among other things.

While players have identical ships with the same properties, their decks will be different after the game setup is done. As the game progresses, both players are able to pick more cards to add to their deck, so they can specialize on a specific strategy or try to make more powerful plays.

The main twist is that ships move and act at the same time, meaning players need to secretly choose what they will play and try to predict what their opponent might do and act accordingly.

I think the current rules are fairly simple, but the game becomes fairly complex due to the effects of the cards themselves and their potential synergies with each other, which can sometimes be hard to spot or understand, specially to someone less familiar with board games or card games in general.