Ascension: Deckbuilding Game
TLDR; The game is well worth the $10 at full price, let alone sale price, even though there are a few minor inconveniences.
I’m a huge card game fan. Magic the Gathering, Dominion, Cards Against Humanity, etc. If it has cards, I generally love it. This game is no exception, and stands out in a couple ways over similair card based games that you can get on the PC. Compared to, oh say Magic the Gathering, the file size and resources required to run this game are miniscule. I often have my 12 gigs of ram stretched pretty thin, but never once has the game caused an issue with anything else running or been too much of a burden on system resources.
– Real player with 500.9 hrs in game
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My favorite deck-building game
Ascension is a very good video game adaptation of one of the best tabletop competitive deck-building games, Ascension: Chronicles of the Godslayer. One player (with AI players) to four players can play locally (hot seat) or online (you must register for a free Asmodee online account), which allows cross-platform play (between Steam and various smartphone implementations).
The game
You start with the now-standard deck-builder set-up - 10 cards - and you draw back up to five cards at the end of each turn. Cards in the base game can be heroes (played once and discarded), constructs (semi-permanent), and monsters (defeat for points). Heroes and constructs generate two of the resources in the game: Runes (money for purchasing cards) and/or Power (fighting strength). Defeated monsters award you Honor (victory) points. You play cards on your turn, which generate Runes and/or Power, and you spend those to acquire or defeat cards that have been dealt from the shuffled “Portal Deck.” In addition to the minimum-six cards in the Portal Deck, there are always at least three other cards available on the side: two inexpensive heroes to buy, and one monster to fight. Heroes and constructs are worth some amount of Honor, while defeating monsters draws Honor points from the Honor pool. The Honor pool works as a timer for the game: at the start of the game, Honor is placed in the pool, and the final round completes when the last Honor points are drawn from the pool. Then the value of the heroes and constructs is added to the Honor points, and the player with the highest total wins.
– Real player with 405.7 hrs in game
Dice & Dungeons
Dice & Dungeons is a unique deck builder. You build a DICE deck (dicebuilding)! Explore dungeons, fight enemies with increasingly difficult and get new dice to your deck. A dungeon and it’s challenges are never the same as before.
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Based on dice building board games
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Several different dice to build your “deck”
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RPG elements
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Character classes
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Weapons and other items
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Unique experience of building dice decks
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FAWE: Enchanted Forest
FAWE: Enchanted Forest - board card game about mystical forest where magic has been saved.
Fight 3 or 4 Players in FFA or Teamplay mode on 1 Board with unlimited amount of Cards of 5 types - 4 Base Cards and 1 Super Card. Every Card has Attack and Defense and gives Buffs and Debuffs. In addition Super Card gives you ability to Upskill.
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Heart of Crown PC
Updating this review after 57 more hours played:
The boardgame is still fun.
The computer game is mostly the same and the game itself is also a lot of fun.
The interface still annoys me in quite some places though:
Noticeably:
When you start the game it takes you to an unneeded (and unwanted) intro screen. In many games you can disable these kind of screen or introductions. There would be a config:/skip intro movie,
In HoC there is no such option and you return to this needeless screen after every game.
– Real player with 384.4 hrs in game
I played this once in tabletop and was hooked. The moment I saw it was on Steam I added it to my Wishlist, and finally during the last sale got around to purchasing it.
The game is a deckbuilder - if you’ve played other tabletop deckbuilders such as Dominion, Thunderstone, Trains, etc. the mechanics will be familiar. It is not the same as digital-only deckbuilder games, like Slay the Spire or (I assume) Ascension: You do not upgrade cards, and there is no phase of gameplay during which you play with the deck you built but cannot purchase new cards.
– Real player with 181.4 hrs in game
Number One Rich
Pretty cool game!!
– Real player with 27.4 hrs in game
Roman Wars: Deck Building Game
In “Roman Wars” we fused elements of deck building board game and strategy together. Build your deck, upgrade your cards, develop your base, and fight different enemies. Try various missions, use bonus cards, and don’t forget about cats!
Features
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Ten different missions: Build your deck of cards and meet multiple criteria to complete the missions
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Ten different enemies: Suppress a riot, make a sortie, fight the enemy stealing your gold and other enemies
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Bonus Cards: Earn experience points and unlock special Bonus Cards which make the missions much easier
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Themes: Choose between the classic Roman theme and Cats theme
Demo
Check out the demo and play first two missions of the game
AXYOS: Battlecards
Nice little card game. You can spend another hour with pleasure.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
Can’t give this one a good review, sadly. The bits and pieces seem nice, but it doesn’t make for a fun gaming experience.
The art and music is perhaps the best aspect of the game, the controls work fine as well.
That said the game feels very under-documented, and the games do not seem very fun or balanced, I win every time without even knowing what I am doing.
Perhaps the biggest weakness is that you cannot gain experience points except in multiplayer, and I have never been able to find anyone else to play it with.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
Book of Beasts — The Collectible Card Game CCG
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Book of Beasts is a free-to-play Collectible Card Game. It is nothing like Hearthstone, Magic, Yu-Gi-Oh, and the likes. It’s more like a Puzzle game.
Your Deck consists of 20 cards. Each turn you draw up to four cards. You can play all of them on the field. Each card has (a) different element(s). There is fire, water, air, earth, and spirit. A card can have different elements on each side which means you will have a card you can connect to another fire card and have a connection to a water card at the same time. You can’t play a card if you can’t connect it to another one.
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
First Impressions:
I learned how to play the game after just the first introduction match. That is impressive!
The game is so simple to learn, I think I can get others who would be intimidated by other card games to try this out. I REALLY hope a Mobile version of this is on the way, because this game has great potential for a strong scene.
Also I was curious on how they monetize the game. It appears to be SUPER generous. I mean, 15 bucks for the ENTIRE first season of cards? Insane value!
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
Sentinels of the Multiverse
Introduction:
Sentinels of the Multiverse is a turn based cooperative card game for 3-5 heroes (Can be played solo as one player controls from 3-5 heroes). You gather your team and embark on a specific location to defeat the big bad villain. Each character you choose have their own personal unique deck that comes with them. The villain also has a uniquie deck and the enviroment you play also has a unique deck! The basic game comes with about 10 distinct heroes, inspired by some iconic comic superheroes of our times, withought ever being way too similar. The game flow is simple yet captivating, with the just right amount of suspence and amazing teamwork and synergy amongst your champions!
– Real player with 341.2 hrs in game
If you are a comic book fan like me, there’s a lot to love about Sentinels of the Multiverse.
It is the digital version of a tabletop card game, where each character and environment is a fixed deck of cards.
There’s a lot of variety here, different heroes with backstories and themes that remind you of famous DC or Marvel characters, many variants of those heroes that unlock after certain conditions are met. These are really fun to accomplish and sort of introduce you more and more to the lore of this universe.
– Real player with 184.8 hrs in game
Shards of Infinity
If you like deckbuilders, get this game! Get all your friends to get the game, too.
In terms of graphics, UI and sound, this game isn’t anything too flashy. The artwork is cool and very nice, as you would expect of a game ported over from a physical card game. Being able to watch replays of your own games would be nice, but seems a feature that’s not on the cards, as it were.
With that out of the way, this game manages to pull off something not many games achieve: it comes into an established genre but manages to be new and different.
– Real player with 109.6 hrs in game
Shards of Infinity, by developers Temple Gates Games, is one of the virtual card game contenders looking to carve out a niche for themselves in the realm that Hearthstone built. Shards of Infinity is based off a real card game, though one I haven’t played. I’ll get this clear from the start - Shards did not do a good job explaining its lore to me.
I know we’re not supposed to come to multiplayer card games looking for a plot, but a basic understanding of the universe helps you figure out how cards relate to one another, and without plunging into a user-wiki, there was no real way to make sense of anything of the information being presented to the player. This made the first few hours of trying to play a little alienating.
– Real player with 23.9 hrs in game