GWENT: The Witcher Card Game

It's quite fun

It took me close to 300 hours for me remember that i need to review this game so here it is. Objective points: Best card art on the market. Very little RNG. One of if not THE most generous f2p model on the market. Diverse meta Subjective points: The Witcher universe adds a serious and dark theme that i like a lot in this game. Negatives: The game needs a lot more cards to further develop deck themes and archetypes. The game needs a few minor changes to make certain cards fit the lore better.

Unfortunately, the game's mechanics are poorly implemented and do not make sense at times. Gameplay occassionally contradicts the descriptions provided in the cards, or is inconsistent. The artwork on the cards is quite good and the music is well done.

Good game with an emphasis on strategy from card sequence and understanding the card meta at any given time and knowing when to pass and stop playing cards. Strategies may involve getting your opponent to overcommit, or yourself playing cards to aquire a card advantage. There is now lifetotal or "face" like in eg. magic the gathering or mythgard. It's pointbased, and cards do not attack or function as blockers like in said examples. This game is set in the witcher universe with beautiful card artwork rooted in the witcher games made by cd project red, mainly the witcher 3 game. There is enough flavor for any fantasy nerd. New cards are added regularly, there have been multiple expansions up till now. It's very F2P friendly unlike some other computer cardgames where you have to spend money to get new cardpacks due to "card rotation out of standard" every now and then yearly and similar financial models. You can spend money but the progression without spending any or only very little feels very natural. You can play this and get all the cards by simply playing for FREE and by spending your ingame currency: "scraps" on the legendaries which are the hard cards to get by in terms of rarity.

Amazing card game, glad I found it as I was looking for something to replace Hearthstone. Compared to HS this has much better looking cards, CDPR is much more generous with packs, and the game has a better economy system (premium cards seperate currency from crafting cards). Gameplay is different enough from HS to be fun in it's own way while having more complex strategies. The cards aren't as interactive with eachother necessarily because you don't fight them out, but there are plenty of mechanics to either build your own board or limit your opponent's board. You will find yourself using the majority of your deck throughout each game, which is a nice change of pace from the rock paper scissors meta of Hearthstone. Some bugs are annoying, which I hope they will iron out eventually (with the automill system and quest completion), and I believe the quest system could be more flexible. Other than those minor greviences, I'd say it's the beautiful, generous, and also most catered to an adult audience of all the TCGs I've played.