GWENT: The Witcher Card Game

Still a great game. Can't wait to see what they build on the foundations they've laid.

Very boring, very slow and very dark. Don't waste your time to play Homecoming, play HS or Eternal. Old Gwent was much better. :-(

Not sure what I'm even rating because it surely isn't Gwent. It's basically a new game that combines mechanics of Gwent and MTG with HS's randomness. A hodgepodge that was supposed to make everyone happy, but that's unfortunately not how you satisfy customers in CCG industry. I prefer MTG mechanics in MTG, they won't replace unique Gwent aspects for me - such as fighting for CA and controlling rounds. The game was made much more casual-friendly probably as requested by CEOs and flagged as "Homecoming" to make old players keep the game busy in the meanwhile. However, veterans like me laughted at that, let's call it "clickbait" title, as soon as they started announcing features. It's not "homecoming", it's "stealing from other homes". I think casually the game is fine, competitively it's much worse and players like Lifecoach or Freddybabes have already commented why, so I'm sure one of the biggest advantages of Gwent - crowded, well-organized tournaments - will be gone quickly.

The game is very good, although it's a significant change from what we saw in the beta and thus I understand it might not be positively received by some veterans. While it has it's flaws, a majority of those are easily fixable with some minor QoL improvements/balance changes and future expansions. Pros: - really F2P friendly - progression system + quests + playing rewards give out a lot of free stuff for new players to quickly build up the card collection; - more meaningful rounds - introducing hand card limit and drawing 3 cards between the rounds means more strategic play; - reduced to two rows - most likely because of the mobile version in the works :) - much more balanced than before - losing a coinflip no longer feels like an auto loss; - provision system opens much more diversity in deck building; - the game takes approximately the same time regardless if you play aggro/tempo/control/combo; Cons: - lower point numbers feels pretty strange if you are a veteran; - more RNG - you rarely draw the whole deck now, there are less tutors and less deck thinning, but there is more draw between the rounds; some mechanics like Reveal are too RNG reliant; - slower gameplay - partly because there are other things to do than just play one card in the turn (like Order mechanics), but could be also speed up a lot by some QoL changes; - lack of archetypes within factions - some have too few cards, some are simply gone (like old Nilfgaard Spies or NR Armor), but very likely to change; this is probably because of future balancing - current set of cards will be considered "Core" and future expansions will be balanced around it (similar to Hearthstone); - artifacts currently unbalanced - they are somewhat uninteractive, but there are rumors that is going to be addressed in the upcoming balance patch; - no avatars in gameplay, reactions now tied to the leaders rather than the avatars (my Odrin avatar is very sad because of that);

I've played since the closed beta until today. I can say that there is a great mismatch of cards, that of the monsters, for example, they moved so much in cards that already worked well, that today they have become unaffected in diverse situations of battle. Already others have increased power to infinity and beyond, making certain matches unhealthy, given that a player sends spam from a card super over power, which does not nerf and keep stirring in others he did not predict. In short, it was so much nerf in letters that I did not presume that I was unmotivated in several games, since the strategies are broken. Do not recommend if you are a person of little patience, because the game demands reasoning and dedication, it is not just quitting. Although it is easy to learn to play, but