Tag: card game

An ‘Overwhelmingly Positive’ idle game about plastic ducks floating in a pool has a collectible card-game successor, and there’s a demo you can play now

An ‘Overwhelmingly Positive’ idle…

I am often in a state of delighted befuddlement at the games which prove popular on Steam, but few…
Fans are celebrating Magic: The Gathering’s latest return to its own setting, but numbers don’t lie—the Final Fantasy crossover boosted revenue 23%

Fans are celebrating Magic:…

The planes of the Magic: The Gathering multiverse are separated by the Blind Eternities, a mysterious between-space that’s never…
Elder Scrolls fans are bringing the card game back from digital oblivion

Elder Scrolls fans are…

The Elder Scrolls Legends was a mainstay of our list of the best card games that aren’t Hearthstone, but…
After its disastrous launch last year, I’m here to tell you that 2025’s most promising auto-battler finally lives up to its potential

After its disastrous launch…

What was the worst PC launch of last year? There’s no shortage of possible answers, everything from Monster Hunter…
Magic: The Gathering’s space opera set includes a monster so big it eats planets

Magic: The Gathering’s space…

The Edge of Eternities expansion is based on space opera, which I am told means it’s like normal science-fiction,…
Hearthstone’s first in-game pet is only available via a gacha mechanic that will cost most players a whopping 158 bucks

Hearthstone’s first in-game pet…

One of my favorite and most-used memes is an image of William Hurt, taken from the film A History…
Magic: The Gathering’s science-fantasy set adds spacecraft, and a rules change for the Commander format

Magic: The Gathering’s science-fantasy…

While Final Fantasy may be the current hotness, MagicCon: Las Vegas dedicated most of its preview panel to an…
Here’s an alchemy shop-sim that is also a mech-builder deckbuilder

Here’s an alchemy shop-sim…

In the southern hemisphere the Summer Game Fest is a winter event. The Frosty Game Fest exists as a…
Ace Attorney meets Slay the Spire in this ‘courtroom deckbuilder’ about fighting for the rights of a murdered god

Ace Attorney meets Slay…

“The river is a god, and they killed her” is a hell of a way to start off a…
Balatro doesn’t have microtransactions for a very good reason: ‘It makes me want to put my computer in the dishwasher and set it to pots and pans,” LocalThunk says

Balatro doesn’t have microtransactions…

Balatro looks like a game that should be filled with microtransactions: More card backs, weird backgrounds, boosters, whatever—the potential…