Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales

Was every excited to play a Gwent adventure game. Turns out it is not Gwent, but some other Gwentesk game. Instead of fun Gwent card battles, the game is a never ending series of card puzzle battles with strange arbitrary rules and victory conditions. With the story seemed intresting, the gameplay is terrible. If you like Gwent or are expecting a Gwent game, do not buy this. If you like puzzles and the Witcher setting, this maybe more your cup of tea.

I expected Gwent with a nice story, not this. The Gwent I knew from Witcher is nothing like this, Battles are very different from W3 and not really enjoyable. And most battles arent even Gwent matches, they are infuriating puzzle battles with very few solutions. The world map itself looks good enough, but its mainly about clicking woodpiles to collect them and then move to the next stupid puzzle battle. Extremely disappointing, if this was steam I would get a refund. First big failure from CDPR.

CD Projeckt fan here and I'm crying saying they pull a (quite) low effort, confusing and not well curated game: - story is wonderful, characters are mostly mostly very well written and the events (after a bit slow start) start to become engaging and unpredictable in a lovely way - art style and music are very very good (small caveat: often you don't distinguish the foreground with the protagonist from the background on the world and get stuck reasoning where to go) - gwent battles are damn boring and always feels like a burden, only some of the puzzles (not the most of them) are wit and entertaining to solve, but not much else - the whole world exploration is not necessary, literally scrapping it would have benefit the game pacing a lot, without sacrificing nothing that's not a burden second only to Gwent battles -

Thought this would be a blast having played Witcher and enjoying the card game. This game is a glorified walking simulator where you walk through one impossible card challenge to the next. I finally gave up when I had to destroy some wagons before they "escaped" with a deck that couldn't possibly do enough damage to meet the objective. Why even have a game that's impossible to win?

Its nothing like the real Gwent but a generic CCG with a Witcher theme and control that suck. Mouse+KB fight with Controllers for input supremacy making it often uncontrollable and you have to remove your Contollers manually (detach) to have it work ok. The "Gwent" i not Gwent but a generic CCG with a Witcher Theme and that is sad bcs the game itself would have potential. I am very disapointed and was it not for a big sale discount i would give the game back feeling betrayed! There is no other way for me to evaluate this product...