Yes — ARC TCG is free to play, so you can install and play it without buying anything.

Is ARC TCG Steam Deck compatible?

Mostly. Valve rates ARC TCG Playable on Steam Deck: it runs, but may need some manual tweaking — a community controller layout, or zooming in on small text.

Can I play ARC TCG on Mac?

Not natively — Steam lists no macOS version of ARC TCG. Mac players would need a cloud gaming service or a Windows compatibility layer.

Is ARC TCG on PC Game Pass?

No — ARC TCG is not on PC Game Pass right now.

ARC TCG

Name: ARC TCG
Brand: RAT Studios
Availability: InStock

RAT Studios · July 18, 2025 · Card Battler, Trading Card Game, Creature Collector, Auto Battler, PvE

ARC TCG is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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About ARC TCG

ARC TCG is a strategic 3D card game set in a fantasy universe full of magic and challenges. Choose your hero, build unique decks with over 350 cards, and engage in intense battles with an automatic combat system that challenges your strategy and planning, in single-player and multiplayer modes.With more than 15 heroes to choose from, every game is different. Every decision makes a difference, every move can change the course of the battle.

The semi-automatic component means that the player can focus exclusively on when and how they can play one or more cards. Creatures on the battlefield will attack automatically, however, the many abilities the game offers can turn the fate of combat around.The order of attack always starts from left to right. Creatures that fight take damage equal to their attack value, and fighting happens most of the time when two creatures are facing each other (except for dedicated abilities that alter this behavior). Combat is therefore very simple, immediate, but at the same time it offers a very high strategic depth, as the position of the cards on the battlefield determines the order of attack, which can be altered, however, thanks to the presence of some card abilities.

Each creature has a default set of abilities up to a maximum of 4 per creature. Each ability is unique and always offers new strategies, and combining certain abilities also makes it possible to create powerful combos.The game offers more than 50 abilities. Some of them are present only in specific factions because they are strongly contextualized, while others are shared in most creatures because they are more generic.Each ability activates according to certain conditions: summoning, destruction, end/ start of turn, etc., thus increasing the strategic depth of the game

Each Hero has a specific ability, activated only 1 time per turn and under certain conditions. Take advantage of their characteristics with the available cards to increase your chances of victory.There are more than 15 heroes in the game, offering more than 15 different and unique play styles!Trigger conditions make their abilities play out in a reasoned manner further increasing the strategic depth of the game

Play with 3 different factions:

Humans
Nature
Dimensional

Each faction brings with it a unique abilities set, heroes, and cards, offering new game strategies

Singleplayer:

Relaxed: play without worrying about scores or leaderboards. Test to your decks and try pre-built ones.
Standard: play with your decks by challenging different levels of AI, gain experience and rewards
Draft: play by choosing a random pair of cards from the two proposed until you build your deck
Ranked: play against AI, win games, climb the rankings and earn rewards at the end of the season
Infinity Tower: play against the AI in a series of matches where your hero's health persists between matches. Can you conquer all the floors of the Tower?
Dark Maze: Play against the AI with one of the three decks available and choose the right paths through the maze. Pass through the rooms, defeat the bosses of the various realms, and reach the end of the maze. Can you become the Lord of the Dark Maze?

Multiplayer:

Private: play vs another player in a private match, test your decks or play with pre-built ones
Standard: play vs another player in public match, win rewards based on opponent "strenght"
League: play against another player and climb the leaderboard, advance in rank and get new rewards

In addition, the game in its current state offers:

3 playable Factions
+350 unique cards
+50 unique abilities
+15 Heroes
9 pre-built decks
Deck Editor: Create/Edit your decks and share them with the community!
Progression System
Online Services
Ranked matches
Singleplayer Seasons
Sound Effects
High Quality graphics
Multiplayer

ARC TCG — game info

Platforms: Windows
Steam Deck: Playable
Player modes: Single-player, Online PvP
PC Game Pass: Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Aug 15, 2025

AI slop 'art' everywhere. Monetization is absolutely vicious. You have to play for around an hour before you can play online. No players online. inb4 they start marketing the game as PvE. Another CCG self immolation.

2 found this helpful

Recommended Dec 2, 2025

It's a really good game with some unique mechanics. The card flare is live and the animations are also done nicely. The game rewards you in any capacity no matter the mode you play and that is really refreshing and that means it's clearly not a p2w game! You need to watch this game. When IT wants you to slow down in the ranked season, the A.I begins to cheat. trap 2 should never equal to your summoned creatures automatically being destroyed especially when the said creature is far beyond the like of trap 2!

1 found this helpful

Not recommended Aug 3, 2025

+Good use of AI art (both static & animated) +Interesting keywords... -...but the game feels terrible. -Dreadful monetization = utter pay to win -No resolution options (not sure if it played 1280x720 or 1920x1080 on a 4k display) -UX/UI is bad lousy DCGs are right down my alley, but this one fumbled the ball. It's a mixture of an autobattle and a card game with pretty interesting keywords, but the monetization is SO greedy, this is an autopass for me. = Disappointment = I could not find the fun for above reasons = I wouldn't recommend the game for myself. ............................................________........................ ....................................,.-‘”...................``~.,.................. .............................,.-”...................................“-.,............ .........................,/...............................................”:,........ .....................,?......................................................\,..... .................../...........................................................,}.... ................./......................................................,:`^`..}.... .............../..............................…

1 found this helpful

Recommended Oct 30, 2025

A.I. Card Game. Not bad but this game needs to have a option to fully play offline, considering it has a single player mode. Enjoy it while its here, but unless the devs make this offline playable one day, it will be gone forever

Recommended Aug 23, 2025

good or ok card game has alot to offer and leveling is fun in it i hope people check this game out more

Not recommended Aug 4, 2025

Its another tcg that it is p2w also the mechanics of the game is whatever.They forget to create a card game that has fun and not full skills combos and crazy cards.

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