GWENT: Rogue Mage

The graphics, sound and overall quality are great. Unfortunately the positive sides of the game are meager after this. The game do not let you skip most of cut-scenes. For a deckbuilding rogue-like experience this is just awful. Even a very bad run will consume a good 20 minutes of your live. There is very few strategy you can apply, the initial deck are mostly fixed. You can only win with sheer luck. Looks like the first run is too difficult and does not let you build a proper deck before get stomped. There is no 3-round-system we are so familiar and that makes GWENT strategy-oriented. I am currently level 25 of 100. It takes almost 10 hours of gameplay to get there. And looks like the the grind just start and the game does not look any easier to make a successful run, and I am talking about beat the first boss, something I just was no able to do it yet. I hope they fix these issues in a next release. For now I will stick to Thronebreaker for a less frustrating experience or Slay the Spire for much less grind.

On the shop page it clearly states that there are different languages for both audio and text. In truth you can only change the language for the in-game text. Audio is only in English.

Don't like it.

The gameplay in Rogue Mage includes none of the strategic elements that make regular multiplayer Gwent a good game. There is only one single round per match, and each match is played against an AI that makes up for being poorly coded by having the most bizarre and unpredictable abilities you can imagine. The only strategic decision you have to make is whether to spend your energy on spells or not, and the most potentially impactful spell is essentially a roll of the dice that may or may not actually be helpful. The roguelike elements are underwhelming, the events along the way are uninspired, and the gameplay is so very dreadfully dull that I honestly wish I could ask for a refund on principle alone, even if the price of the game isn't very high. Rogue Mage is so bad that it has made me lose interest in playing regular Gwent as well, in spite of the facts that a slew of new cards were just released for the multiplayer version, and that I have played well over a thousand hours of Gwent over the past 5+ years.

lose once and have to start all over and no save and cant explore the full map