GWENT: The Witcher Card Game

I get that some people are frustrated after the beta, but I can only comment on the game I'm seeing now and I love it!

I'm not a big fan of card games but I enjoy playing them. This said the problem with card games for me is if you had bad luck opening card kegs (packs) and try to play with fun decks there is big chance of you losing to "try hard" decks. In card games large amount of players copy decks from the web. Gwent is different card game and that's something I can respect. Both players have 2 lanes in the game board melee and ranged. Both lanes have benefits some cards have special effects when you place them in melee lane, some cards have range of how far they can target their special attack, some cards have passive ability and so much more. Pretty neat. But how do you win the match (?) by having more "damage points" than your opponent and winning two rounds out of three. There's also arena mode. Visually this is the best looking card game from the menu to the battlefield.

Some vocal minority seems very dissapointed at the Gwent homecoming update. I think it's great and has alot nice added gameplay. It also has alot of potential for the future. Looking forward to what the expansion brings! 10/10

TL;DR PROS: -Great graphics -Good feel -Good UI -Gameplay is fun -Seen interesting tactics -Better than Hearthstone -Well every game aspect is + for me must say CONS: -Opening kregs involves spamming alt+F4 -10 minutes opening 3 kregs -DISCONNECTED REVIEW: Will just explain what i wrote above. Game overall is great. Graphics are great and you can have animated version of card, everything has its tone and well... great graphics. UI is big factor to me and it is great but clunky like cant click while other thing is being clicked or something? It has that clunky feel. Audio great. Every other aspect is great. Gameplay is good also but cant say much since iam not TCG player, I can say I hate hearthstone and I like Gwent. Only other TCG game i enjoyed playing was Migh and Magic TCG long ago. So I would rate game 4.5-4.7? SO WHATS BAD: I would say my internet but FPS games work fine, connection tests like speed, ping and else are fine so its up to the game. So lets start with mild stuff like starting match (NOTE: This all happened in about 3-4 hours of game time so you get sense of timeframe). Match works fine but connecting to match SOMETIMES gets you to opening screen and disconnects you, not big hussle but annoying. Loading screen however IS. Know how GTA lets you wander whole county?/city? without loading? Well here every click needs loading. Deck builder? loading, Shop? loading, Quests? loading Rewards? loading, its not long (1-4 seconds) but its annoying since you do that a lot, its really annoying, game takes 1GB ram and I have 16, so taking 2 more for no loading times would be GREAT. Worst game offense? OPENING KREGS TAKE AGES. You press open, take few seconds, you choose which card you want to take, gets stuck, you have to alt+F4, get back in game. Sometimes doesnt accept choice so open keg agin (same cards) and whole process again. 10 minutes to open 3 kegs. Iam very close to abandoning game and these 3 stars are generous. Game infuriates!

I pretty much never bother writing reviews but if you enjoyed the Witcher III version of this game then you may be sorely disappointed. When I noticed a bunch of negative reviews below I figured it was run of the mill players angry over minor changes stuff. I was wrong. This version of gwent incredibly feels like it has only as much if not even less depth than the first iteration of it in W3. Rather than being combative like other popular games (MTG, etc.) this is more of a see who gets the most points deal. Units have abilities that can be used offensively but their actual power is meaningless save for the final round score (no sense of building up a super mean card that can kill your opponent/their monsters via upgrades). I could go on but you get the picture. If you doubt me by all means try it, it is free after all. But if you're a fan of more standard table-top card games I think you'll be disappointed like I was. If I feel a real desire for Gwent in the future I'll probably just boot up Witcher III.