GWENT: The Witcher Card Game

I don't know why people are complaining so much. Sure, it was different in the beta, but I think they made a huge improvement on the game. It's flashy and unique.

I'm not going to waste more time with this game then I already have by writing a lenghthy review. However, I will say after 500+ hrs of old gwent, putting money into the game because I loved it, dealing with the constant changes and lack of direction, I'm done. This game isn't even gwent anymore. It is just a totally new game which in comparison to old gwent, is terrible . It is now Gwent in name only. This game represents little of what made Gwent a great game. If you like a slow, boring, unintelligable game full of bugs (more now than the early stages of Beta ffs), with the most interesting mechanics removed and replaced with "Boost" and "Damage" abilites, then this might be your game. If you like a card game that actually requires brain power, will keep you awake, and make you want to play more. I would suggest you PLAY SOMETHIN ELSE. And before you go thinkning I havent even played the new gwent. I think around 30hrs is enough to decide if I like this game or not. I tried. I just can't play anymore. Cya later Gwent. I loved you. You were the best :'(

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Writing this before the new dawn that is suppose to be the release of Thronebreaker, so if the update lands I'll rewrite accordingly. Currently Gwent suffers being very stale. Scaling combinations have been toned down, interesting interactions have been removed and cards have been gravitated towards the very bland baseline value. The exceptions to this rule are also the most annoying cards as the vast majority of the remaining cards can't properly answer them making it rock paper scissors more often than appears(notable examples include Imlerith Sabbath and Viper witchers). Instead of taking the approach of making everything so broken it feels like there's always some exploit strategy to be found(a la Hearthstone) CDPR decided try to make the game "balanced". This failed and the game became increasingly boring, which let to CDPR making a second humongous misstep with the midwinter update. Not addressing the fact they were busy killing fun but instead trying to remedy their failure with added RNG. Since then the game is what it is. 90% of your games in high rank will be the same four decks. It's a GCC so it will be very interesting initially, but in it's current state you really don't want to invest in it.

Great game