Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales

CDPR are the best <3

This is a bad gwent game, a bad witcher game and a bad standalone game. The only reason to play this is for goodies in the standalone gwent card game and even then its too much of a time/money investment to really pay off at full price. Meh: - slow, somewhat uninteresting story (am in chapter 3 - like 15 hours in and the story can be summoned up with: kingdom got screwed - find help for kingdom) - The "decisions" you can make in the story are not decisions. You basically just pick whatever is most likely to give you an achievement so you get free stuff for the standalone gwent card game. Some are just stupid (e.g. you want to convince the dwarves to give you their army. Some random dwarf chick comes along and goes - hey btw could you steal this old history book from the archives so i can convince my dad to let me make out with a dwarf that lives with humans? - ehh NO? how about no! Im kind of trying to do something here to win over the dwarf faction? Maybe not steal from their library and piss off their leaders? okay thanks bb - ended up with a bug that made me lose a story mandatory fight even though i fulfilled the conditions. (Conditions "Kill the dragon" - i killed the dragon with 3 cards left in hand --> defeat). Didnt bother to try again but if thats a thing then its impossible to progress after this. - not gwent - You barely do anything related to gwent. The ruleset is largely different from actual gwent (both W3 and standalone). Most of the game is "logic puzzles" and "special conditions". If i want to do logic puzzles ill google logic puzzles ty! The logic puzzles are not particularly fun or interesting. Mostly just simple math problems. The problem with the "special conditions" scenarios is that the game doesnt tell you what you have to do beforehand AND YOU CANT REARRANGE YOUR DECK WITHOUT QUITTING THE GAME AFTER THE GAME TELLS YOU THE SCENARIO CONDITIONS! ScenarioExamples: Kill 1 unit - Kill all units of type - Help unit stay alive - Win 3 rounds

From what i've played of this game most of the encounters tend to be "puzzles" pre-set conditions with pre-set cards and 1 round to play them and meet the pre-set condition which ultimately begs the questions of whats the point of a deck if 90 percent of the time you're doing these pre=set tasks, so far there's been very little battles and most of the battles also have pre-set conditions for victory that are very specific. Its a card based battle system without the actual fun of what that should entail, no stragety, just trying your best to do the pre-set challenge that fulfills the pre-set battle conditio for victory

One playthrough is enough

I enjoyed it until the last battle ruined this game for me. Totally unbalanced and annoying...sorry.