Inscryption
Played through it twice, the game is the best of it’s kind, rogue like and incredible deck building elements, this game has that “little extra” that games like this need to be successful.
– Real player with 56.7 hrs in game
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great gameplay, amazing story, just wish you could play against the wizard and necromancer too
– Real player with 55.7 hrs in game
Card City Nights 2
I was skeptical of buying this game because I don’t really like “casual” games, but I did enjoy the game despite it being filled with stuff that wouldn’t normally be to my taste.
The premise of the card system worked really well. The board positioning/countdown system sounded silly but was really interesting. There’s a careful balancing act between planning ahead for the space your going to need, crowding your opponent out, and getting down the powerful cards which are harder to hook to chains and make it harder to keep your chain momentum going. Unfortunately this is all scuddled by cards later in the game that are able to ignore all of this, and I haven’t seen a strategy that works better than spamming those cards over and over and I was able to cakewalk through the game once I figured that out.
– Real player with 37.7 hrs in game
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Card City Nights 2 is unfortunately a much worse game in many ways than the first game.
The core gameplay is similar in many ways, with having to connect 3 cards together using the 8-way arrows on each cards. But the board is one large 6x3 board instead of each player having their own 3x3 board, and connecting the cards doesn’t immediately cause an action, but rather activates them, to do something in X number of turns.
There are definitely pros to the new game. Being able to place your cards directly in the way of the opponent is nice. The “spy” cards that have red arrows that connect to the opponent’s cards are very cool, and there’s some great balance with them (they often have powerful placement effects, but help your opponent create matches). There’s a lot of interesting possible combos you can do. Like powerful cards with no arrows, that have to be activated by other means. Or cards with great effects only WHILE active, which means you want to delay their turn timer as much as possible.
– Real player with 32.6 hrs in game
NEOVERSE
At its core, Neoverse is a Slay-the-Spire-esque “roguelike” deckbuilding game where you play cards to clear combat encounters across three acts of increasing difficulty, each one capped off with a boss fight. It aggressively invites comparisons to its dark fantasy predecessor, being more similar than many others in the same narrow genre.
However, despite the fact that it saves a lot of effort by way of imitation, Neoverse is a rather different experience to play.
For one, Neoverse is more forgiving. Some negative reviews complain about the difficulty spike of the bonus boss, but while that encounter does require more care and preparation than anything else in Neoverse, it’s still nowhere near the teeth-grinding frustration that you get in many games with “Roguelike” elements that expect you to fail over and over until the RNG winds blow fair and you’re able to assemble that perfect winning combo. I’d go so far as to say that until you start pushing the harder content like higher-level Transcendent Universe runs or Challenge Mode, the game is actually pretty easy… at least if you have a good instinct, either learned from playing or transferred in from familiarity with the genre, for what to do in general. But, I would say instead that Neoverse feels much more ‘fair’ than most other members of the genre.
– Real player with 59.1 hrs in game
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One of the best Spire-type games out there!
Without a doubt. If you like Slay the Spire, you’ll love this little gem!
The setting of the game puts us in a futuristic, post-apocalyptic “universe” where mankind stuck its d#ck in crazy when everything was fine and dandy as it was. As a result, humanity finds itself in QUITE the pickle with multiple realities slamming into each other like a night at the local rave club - only it’s not fun and drugs are nowhere to be found. Monsters, and God knows what else, start pouring through as dimensional shifts smash realities into each other and try to find a balance amidst the chaos. Naturally humanity was NOT ready for this level of f#cktitude, and - as could be expected - that which once WAS is now a complete, dilapidated mess.
– Real player with 45.5 hrs in game
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
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
Artifact
Valve got greedy.
Apparently Valve forgot everything they learned from TF2, CS:GO and Dota2. Making fun games fully accessible to everyone. Online games without players and communities are destined to fail.
But… Nope. Valve decides to exclude 90% of the World.
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Pay for the game.
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Pay for cards to play the game, making the best cards the rarest and therefore most expensive. (when they said power level wouldn’t be related to rarity)
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Pay to enter prize modes.
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Take a % cut of prize mode entry fees.
– Real player with 102.0 hrs in game
Valve has literally abandoned the game…
Edit: 13/03/2021
This game was so hyped at the time, and for me, the gameplay lived up to it for me when it launched, it was so different from everything that I’ve tried before and I did not even know Dota 2 universe… But after years waiting for something, it’s finally Official, both versions of the game, Classic and Foundry, will not be in further development… Here is some of the main things that were impactful during all this time being a casual player.
– Real player with 64.7 hrs in game
Spellstone
I have many hours in this game before it came to Steam but I did put some hours into the steam version before writing my review to check for any changes, added or missing features, performance issues, etc. Spellstone is a very fun game that you can enjoy as a f2p player but just be prepared to hit a paywall like in many other mobile games. There are monthly individual events as well as weekly guild events or individual events to participate in. The best part of the game for me is the guild aspect and events which can be alot of fun especially when you find a good guild that is active and helpful. There are also BGE’s that add a special ability to a particular tribe for a certain amount of time which make the cards from that tribe more powerful. Now for the negative stuff. Cards are split into a standard set (cards that anyone can get) and a premium set (cards that must be purchased with real $) which creates a huge power gap between f2p and p2w because the premium set cards are much stronger. The huge issue which you should notice pretty quickly is that the prices in this game are RIDICULOUSLY expensive. The cards come in the usual common, rare, epic, legendary variety and two cards can be combined to make a dual version or four cards can be combined to make the top level quad version of the card, so as an example the in game store sells boxes which contain 4 copies each of 6 legendary cards and 8 copies each of 6 epic cards. To buy out the whole box and guarantee yourself 6 quad legendaries and 12 quad epics will cost you just over $300. The cards in the box will be mostly from the tribe that are currently part of the bge so while this will make your deck stronger for a while, once the bge ends most of the cards you bought won’t even be playable anymore. While the bge effects are interesting and fun to play they are also meant to make players purchase more cards from that faction to compete within the bge. Powercreep is also a serious issue, cards that you pay money for will be overpowered by new box cards usually within a few months. There are also chance packs which give you 1 of any card in the pack (but with no set amount of each card) so you could spend hundreds of $ and not even be able to quad one of the cards that you really wanted. There is also an emporium that has 4 slots with each containing one item for sale, however this is only available to vips and each slot unlocks at a certain vip level (based on how much $ you have spent) but to have access to all 4 items you will need to spend THOUSANDS of $$$$, and after all of that 4 copies of a legendary card from the emporium to make a quad will cost you $100. My least favorite thing though has to be that you can purchase refills with real money for some of the “competitive” individual and guild events, so say that you’ve put together a really good deck and played awesome during an event and you’re in a good ranking that will land you a decent reward, well someone can just open their wallet right at the end and buy their way past you….. really? This is a fun game and can be enjoyable for f2p players but make sure that you know what this game is all about before spending your money here and if you’re looking for a good f2p game that you can spend a few $ here and there on to show your support, this is not it.
– Real player with 1469.4 hrs in game
Put it this way:
The paywall you experience in this game can dramatically vary depending on the event available.
I started playing about a week ago. All I had to do is score 1 point on the PvE event to get 1 epic prize. My cards were too weak to do that. So at that point it looked unpleasant.
But I was 100% sure there are other events and they would treat me better.
Events prescribes a specific condition, either accumulating bounties, playing an event pve map, guild war or something else. Then everyone get prizes according to where they rank. Much like the good earlier years of mobile gaming, spearheaded by Blood Brothers in my experience. I dunno why this form of competition dwindled, other than that it was maybe too spammed at a time.
– Real player with 852.8 hrs in game
Andor - Wrecking Dawn
Although Andor is not so competitive comparing to other hot card collection games, it is still a choice to take an easy free game in Andor. The true game can be start in hours after you know its rule by some detail introductions, and a good news is that basic cards (white and blue) is easy to get, as you can get tons of packs in many ways. I see this game still has problems, but they are willing to fix it if you report.
– Real player with 133.7 hrs in game
For playing several card games like Hearthstone, Faeria, ESL, etc. I must say that I enjoy my experience in Andor so far.
The game is very promising …
The graphics and the music are good. The gameplay works well and the system is original on some points like having to discard cards to get mana unlike the majority of games of the genre where it increases automatically every turn. The system of rows and lines of attack as well as that of spells and counterattacks are also aspects of the game that are new and enjoyable. Deck and strategy possibilities are many and varied. The single player campaign is quite long and already offers many challenges.
– Real player with 56.8 hrs in game
Deck Adventurers - Origins
Good game, if you don’t play it you might fail at life.
– Real player with 12.3 hrs in game
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What is this game about?
Pleasantly surprised with this one. Considering its size, it packs a solid punch.
So, the gameplay:
You are a hero that is tasked to overcome evil. You go unto linear missions each consisting of a few encounters. In those encounters you fight several enemies with special abilities that form a sort of puzzle of deciding who to prioritizes first.
– Real player with 8.2 hrs in game
Greedy Dungeon
So far, it’s a pretty fun game. You build up your deck, upgrading cards you like, hit the dungeon to take on baddies and hopefully not die. It can be kinda grindy, but the more challenging dungeons will test your character and your willingness to lose everything if you die. For the price it can’t be beat.
– Real player with 18.2 hrs in game
I was looking for something simple and fun to play. And this game was basically what I wanted!
– Real player with 12.4 hrs in game
Power Chord
Power Chord is a team-based roguelike deck-building time-resetting battle against the demon gangs of Helmoth.
Assemble Earth’s mightiest musicians, each with their own unique cards and gear, to fight your way through the hordes and destroy the only guitar powerful enough to reopen the scratch between worlds.
Choose from a diverse cast of kick-ass characters to assemble your band, with each member having their own unique set of cards and playstyles. Combo your different band members’ cards to unleash devastating attacks and shred your opponents. Be careful though because if a band member falls in battle you’ll lose them and access to their cards in future battles until you revive them at a pit stop.
Discover new cards as you bar brawl stage-to-stage, unlocking new strategies to take down demons and strengthening your instruments of destruction. Choose your way through a branching path filled with battles, merchants, random encounters, and valuable rest locations to heal and revive fallen characters.
