GWENT: The Witcher Card Game

Easy to learn how to play, non Pay to Win and beautiful artwork. Highly recommended if you are interested in card games.

The game was really good during beta, but now it is boring and only designed to be played with a pad. If you want to play with keyboard and mouse, you have to guess which button is mapped to which key and there is no way to change the mapping.

This version of Gwent could be very fun, although its not the same game you played in the witcher 3. The abilities of each card in this version makes it very interesting and enjoyable to build decks and try new things all the time. Unfortunately it takes a long time and a lot of games to get "reward points" (reward points = "ore" and "ore" = card kegs which is how you are able to upgrade decks, that and scraps from cards that you dont want or need). So its not exactly easy to upgrade your cards, and that part is good and fine. you can also purchase kegs which isnt cheap especially when you may not get anything at all with real value to your deck, so i just refuse to buy kegs and that is fine too. The problem is you spend all that time (for me personally, several weeks) to build the deck you want and then the developers decide they are gonna nerf that deck. So i finally get what i want then I cant win a game because the cards are "too strong"... thats bs in my opinion. This has happened multiple times and im tired of wasting my time on this game and its "meta" changes. I wish the devs would just leave it alone and let players be more creative in beating the "strong" decks instead of adding new cards every few weeks. Maybe change the cost of cards a little... 1 or 2 provisions will push a lot of players away from certain cards. I never played the Viy deck but i never had a problem beating it for the most part, with the right deck, but the idiot devs thought that it was too strong so they made it too expensive for players and weakend the leader ability. What about the ppl that used that leader for decks other than Viy? Now they are completely unplayable!!!! Or the new nerf on Ciri Dash and Carapace... more bs! and thats just to name 2 examples. I just wish they would leave the game alone, i mean i guess it works for the ppl that constantly play and can afford to get everything the game has to offer but most people dont have that kind of time.

Best card collecting game out there.

Despite the claims that Homecoming had drastically changed the essence of Gwent, I found this vision of Gwent quite enjoyable, because, frankly, I didn't think that in-game version in W3 could be an independent product. Gladly, the developers were looking the same way and after some reorganising and polishing, they released a decent card game. Pros: + Truly F2P - Abundance of resources makes it possible to gather all the cards in year or so. + Uniqueness - Gameplay of Gwent is all about wisely using your resources and doesn't resemble any other CCGs. + Lore - Every expansion brings new characters and stories which means that the universe of Witcher is still alive and kicking. Cons: - Long intervals between expansions make for poor deck diversity and overall lack of content. - The game has serious technical flaws (PC). When the patch/expansion/journey is installed, you must wait a day before all the bugs and malfunctions are fixed, since the game is barely playable. All in all, this card game is really good, especially for Witcher fans, but since there are no ero cards from The Witcher 1, I gave it 4 stars.