Draconian Wars

This should be quite a good game - you have a collectible (purely through playing the game) card game with some pretty innovative gameplay - your "mana", life, spells, troops, equipment and the fortunes of war are all represented by the one pack of 50 cards chosen from your collection. There are two sides, the Technocrats and the Draconians, as well as some shared neutral cards both can use, and things are pretty well balanced and interesting, with a number of different viable deck builds that can be put together as you accumulate more cards. Playing a battle is fairly straightforward generally, although the combat system takes a little getting used to, there is one main issue I have here which is when your opponent attacks you, you have very little time to react and choose cards whereas when you attack you have no time limits at all - I think there is a pause to stop the timer but I never remember it. Particularly when playing the AI this seems unnecessary, especially given when it is your turn certain cards you have in play that have abilities you can activate then on your turn the turn progress stops every step of the way and you have to manually advanced, but then when it swit…

This is one of the few games in which I recommend going through the tutorial. The mechanics are a bit more in depth than they first appear, so it is very easy to get lost if you just try to jump into it. Once you understand the mechanics, the game becomes very rich in play style and possibilities.

A MTG-like collectible card game with two exclusive factions (you can't make a deck with cards of both factions) and a pool of neutral cards. Draconian cards are generally more straightforward with better high-cost cards. Mechanical cards are generally more nuanced with abilities with better low-mid cost cards. Other notable differences are that instead of land/mana there is a resource pool system where you cycle cards from your deck (which also serves as the only way to draw cards), there are 3 air and 3 ground areas to play units in (combat only occurs when your units and enemy units are in the same place so there is a cat-and-mouse element), there is a fate combat system (combat compares values of all units in the area instead of one-on-one combat and excess damage forces the enemy to discard or damage units, fate (if involved) deals damage to units based on the top card of the deck), and there are no life points (you win by forcing your enemy to discard until their deck is gone). In MTG terms, Units are Creatures, Gears/Weapons are Enchantments (global and creature-attached), and Disrupts are Instants (but can only be cast in the specified phase). Single-player: Play against 6…

Its learning curve is so meaty that after 3.8 hrs i still dont get it.

dont even know how i got this game

Tags: Boards & Cards - TCCG Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR: Outcompeted by F2P offerings. Dated. Saturated subgenre. Overcomplicated ruleset. Unintutive. Trading card collection game using a turn based spell/creature roster and two factions. The rules are way too over-engineered with multiple phases for each player on each turn including complex mathematical equations based off of different pools of cards which distributes tokens... im telling you... way too complicated... the art is okay but you cant see barely any of it, and forget about reading text, that is unless you zoom on each card one by one. None of the mechanics are very intuitive but I also found that the game was not very good at teaching the control interface either and found myself just kind of mashing at things more than once.