Artifact

(micro-review)

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Version: 

Call To Arms

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Genre: Collectible Card Game;

Release date: 28-Nov-2018 ;

Overview:     

THE CARD GAME REIMAGINED
A collaboration between legendary card game designer Richard Garfield and Valve, Artifact is a digital card game that combines deeply-strategic, competitive gameplay with the rich setting of Dota 2. The result is an immersive and visually-stunning trading card game unlike any other.

STRATEGY UNBOUNDED
Wield your deck across three lanes of combat, answer every move of your opponent with one of your own. Unlimited hand size. Unlimited number of units you control. Unlimited mana you can employ.

It’s up to you to decide the best way to navigate the constantly shifting tide of battle.

FUN WITH FRIENDS
If you’ve played card games around a kitchen table, you know the enjoyment that can come with house rules. Artifact allows you and your friends complete control in creating a tournament. Simply select your elimination or non-elimination format and deck constraints; then, challenge your friends to a crucible of your own design.

COMPETE GLOBALLY
Want to test your skill against the world at large? Valve-sponsored gauntlets and tournaments will give players the opportunity to not just play Artifact for the joy of mastery, but to win prizes based upon their level of play.

WHAT'S IN THE BOX
Artifact comes with 5 Card Packs and 2 Event Tickets. Unlock 15 more Card Packs and 15 additional Event Tickets as you play. You'll also receive 2 Starter Decks each with 40 cards and 9 items.

Artifact, or the “DOTA card game”, tries somehow to transfer game concepts from DOTA to a card game. These concepts include:

- Buying items for your heroes during the match.

- The action takes place on 3 boards instead of one, luckily this proved to be less confusing than it first sounded.

-  There are “creeps”, which unfortunately spawn randomly on “lanes” in random positions, throwing more randomness in a game that is already very RNG heavy.

The game length for a newbie like me was about 30min, longer than other CCGs. The game has no premium cards which would be usually animated versions of the standard ones.

The game has lots of QoL improvements like you can see your opponents’ deck after the game, each deck has an identifier so you can quickly load/export decks, and the game lets you easily buy the cards that you are missing. You can freely sell and buy cards on the Steam marketplace but the fees for transactions are a bit too high.

I don’t feel like the game has a purpose even though it has support for tournaments. The progression system was recently implemented and it’s very unimpressive. At the moment the player base is pretty thin.

Artifact is not a bad game, it’s just pointless.

 Rating: Buy a rating from Steam marketplace for only $1.99.


         Article date: 09-Feb-2019

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