Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales

While there is a story and not a bad one at that. The gameplay is pretty lackluster. I knew from the beggining that this was a card game of sorts which doesn't usually tickle my fancy, but since it is a game which has a story based on the witcher universe I thought that I could play the game just for the story. Sure you can skip the card stuff, but then all you are doing is clicking along to a very expensive visual novel. I can honestly only reccomend this game if it was 15 bucks or less.

I was so satisfied with the game, until I found out steam published Thronebreaker 20 days later, with a price that is 35% lower than what I've spent here.....

This review is more challenging to my moral system than anything in the game. On one side I want to write something positive, since I really enjoy the Witcher universe and I appreciate the attidute of CDP towards players. On the other side there are serious problems with the game. The game is pretty, the characters are solid, plot is good, every fight is different and fun ... for the first 10 hours of the game. After that, plot and moral choices effects are predictable. Deck is so powerful, that every battle is the same and is easy. I feel that CDP put a lot of effort on beginning of the game and very little on middle and late game. I want to give a good rate, but more because I like CDP than I enjoyed the game.

Tbh I am not a big fan of card games, gwent was the sec one that i ever played(first was heart of stone) and i gave up on HOS real quick. Played gwent when I was beating The Witcher 3 and I absolutely love it. Thats why I play the independent Gwent as soon as I beat the Witcher 3. So I wouldn't play this thronebreaker if it wasn't Gwent, but this one is AMAZING. During the time I never touched all the other games I was playing(COD, AC, etc)

Such a unique and special game with especially good world building and interesting plot twists