Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales

I'll be honest with you - I kind of enjoyed this game. But what's important is why I enjoyed it, and the reason is: I like Gwent, and this game mostly consists of the same Gwent experience. However, it's not sold as a Gwent expansion in store, but rather as an "New RPG from the same people who made The Witcher". I understand marketing purposes but it's NOT and RPG. It has next to no RPG elements, and, in fact, everything about this game that's not about Gwent is close to abysmal. Overworld map is boring, upgrades are lazily designed, dialogue is, while abundant, really watered down. The change of character animations with the "darkening" going upwards looks so horrible that I honestly expected it to be changed by release when I saw the trailer. The Gwent in this game is good and that's what makes it good. But unless you like Gwent - beware this game and beware insincere reviews.

This is an amazing game and you should play it.

Can't stop playing!!!

For the price you get a lot of playtime. Comparable products like Hearthstone charge you easily the same price and give you like 1h of gameplay and a few cards. This one offers a lot more entertainment, good written dialogues and nice puzzles. Must buy if you like card games and enjoyed gwent.

So I've finished it. That's more than I can say for W2 or W3 (or 95% of back library) This is very nearly a lock for 5 stars. I have only 2 reasons for leaving only 4: 1. Resource balance is non-existent. Honestly its so generous that it might as well not be a counter. Then again I collected *everthing*. If your worried about skipping pickups on a play through, don't be. 2. The unexcusably hard boss battle. After 4 days of redoing decks and replaying over and over, I finally cheated (memory editor) just to get it over with. If I had not done so, this review would have been 2 starts at most. Look I know I'm terrible at Gwent online, but if 95% of the game is easy, don't have the final battle be RNG brutal difficult. There are a couple of non-essential bugged cards. I assume they will get corrected. Puzzle design and story, top notch. Setting perfect. My complaints are things that should have worked out during play testing and likely will be patched soon (played version 1.0). Anyway no regrets.