Arcanard

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"Arcanard" is an extraordinarily badly made card battler that looks like it was intended for mobile phones, yet also features pixelcrap graphics (very little effort seems to have gone into this). Needless to say it was a complete and utter failure. What do you do in the game? This is basically an extraordinarily weak and shallow MTG ripoff. Instead of the 5 schools of magic you get in MTG there's like 10 of them (yeah that made it better, NOT) that don't do much and nobody cares much about them because nobody really bothered to play this. And can you blame them? While I couldn't find this on the mobile app stores, everything about it looks and feels like it's a mobile app designed for mobile phones... for PC gaming enthusiasts, it's not going to give you a cutting edge PC gaming experience. That alone is enough to disqualify this from any recommendation. We don't spend thousands building gaming rigs so that we can pretend they're iPhones and play iPhone games and mobile apps. This features really godawful pixelcrap "art" instead of real graphics. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating 3D visuals, or couldn't affo…

Arcanard is a pretty enjoyable little card roguelike that I liked mainly because it gives me a lot of freedom to experiment with elemental combinations. I step into a dark fantasy world where every run can develop differently depending on the cards, relics and spells I find. I enjoyed that unpredictability because I never feel completely locked into the same strategy from the beginning. The deckbuilding is the core of the experience, and I had a good time building around different elemental powers. Fire, water, ice, earth, wind and the other elements can be combined into different styles, so I am constantly looking for combinations that work better together. I liked having to think about what I add to my deck because more cards do not automatically mean a better deck. The turn based combat is straightforward but satisfying. I can take my time deciding what to play, which makes the battles more about planning than reflexes. I enjoyed watching a carefully prepared combination work exactly how I wanted it to, especially when the right cards and abilities lined up. The tactical side is simple enough to learn quickly while still giving me room to experiment. The procedural structure …

very ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ loud, doesnt fit right on my monitor (standard monitor), managed to almost break the game instantly with an earth build or whatever and got to late game extremely easily and only lost because 1 of my "spells" got disabled ._. rng i guess, 0 tutorial, takes a little while to learn, english is a bit (very) off and sometimes hard to understand, needs a crap ton of development still but concept is not horrible and would play more/again if it was shown some love

Good game. I hope the developer will keep working ot it. If there is a dlc pack for sale I will buy it.

I beat the game. Even streamed it too. Earth spells + decent combat spell + second wind spell = OP, Can hit over a billion damage Game is very unbalance though. I did not find it fun. I like the pixel art but there are some issues in the UI such as unable to read certain text. Dialogue was too slow and waiting for each card to be played felt like grinding my teeth against charred wood. I CAN'T EVEN SEE DETAILS OF THE OLD SPELLS I BOUGHT IN MY COLLECTION Hitting high damage felt mid-satisfactory. After hitting each checkpoint, the boss had a ♥♥♥♥ ton of health. So it did make you rethink of your spell build. 4/10. Definitely needs achievement. Not playing again after being "Conqueror"