Gwent: The Witcher Card Game (2018)

CDPR did an amazing job to bring such an amazing minigame to an entirely separate game for us. The gameplay isn't that new when we already have Pokemon TCG, Yugioh, etc. But because the story of the game is based on a famous novel and the feeling of battling NPCs with cards is such a great feeling. Also if not because of the success of The Witcher 3 then I certainly don't think Gwent wouldn't be that great though. Anyways it's up to you to decide whether Gwent is a good game or not, I personally think that Gwent is one of CDPR greatest achievements not just because of The Witcher 3 but the amount of passion they put in it.

I was pretty addicted to the mini game in Witcher 3. Part of that is because I almost always won, but I had to think about each match to do so. Going up against real people is a lot less fun because everybody only wins about half the time. Nevertheless, they did an excellent job porting and expanding the mini game into a full fledged card game. Great animations, tons of cards, more complexity to the mechanics, more to learn, decent economy around it all. Its a great fit for iPad since it's so natural to manipulate cards with a touchscreen. I dropped off after a dozen hours maybe just because of the competitive aspect of it I described above. If they introduce a single player campaign the way Legends of Runeterra recently did, I'd come back to play that.

So now that I've been well and truly been hooked and passed my time for the Witcher 3. You probably want to stop listening to my opinion about this game. I will say that for me it is too expensive to stay competitive and while you can certainly play for free for as long as you want. You might get a little frustrated unless your playing 2-5 hours a night ALL THE TIME. But I'm too invested now to stop. Yeah, that's my excuse I guess....

Absolutely love this game. I just don't like the progression of having to breakdown cards and constantly buy the same faction pack to get the same cards and repeat. It's not horrible and I haven't spent much on the game. But even still, it feels super grindy. If it wasn't CDPR I would probably feel worse about giving them any money at all. The overall model is way better than Hearthstone but saying that is like saying the chicken pox is better than the swine flu. You don't really want either one. I really wish you just paid $60 for the base game and gave them $20 per expansion. I would have preferred that to the free to play model.

Wow, I've really gotten into this game in a serious way. I think some of the grinding you have to do to be competitive is maybe a little much. You can certainly pay and it helps, but it won't necessarily solve all your problems either. But I'm STILL really having fun. Can't wait to see if I break my time played for the Witcher 3. Lol