Did you like playing Heroes of Might and Magic? If so you'll very much love this game. Hopefully not too much of a spoiler to tell you there are some cute HoMM Easter eggs in Thronebreaker. The adventure map art is gorgeous. The voice acting and dialogue top flight. The story and lore are true to the Andrzej Sapkowski books. There are two avenues of strategy in the game. The battles themselves, which come in different flavors: standard, puzzle, shortened or containing special story-driving mechanics. The puzzle battles especially offer tremendous variety. And then there is the command tent and the deck building. If you're anything like me you might actually spend an entire session looking at the upgrade trees, tweaking your deck, and playing the practice mirror-AI over and over again, saving in game story progress for another session until after you've sated all your crazy deck ideas. Replay value very high in my opinion. You'll want to try all the different story choices, plus all the different deck archetypes. This feels like a brand new hybrid of game genre's to me. It is a CCG, yet also a single player RPG with fun adventure maps. The mix is fantastic. This engine/platform and the opening narrative framing could be used to tell so many more wonderful Witcher World stories. Given the obvious success of the game at this point (I'm not the 5 star review here folks) I'm delightfully optimistic there will be additional tales to come. This one will always be that special first.
