Plopping $500 down on a game meant to be played on your phone or tablet may seem, perhaps, 500 times too much. But a handful of excitable (and apparently, well-off) gamers are doing just that for SolForge. The nutty thing is, this digital-only collectible-card game (CCG) is actually free. That’s right, you don’t have to dish out any cash play it — payments are purely for optional virtual goods. Even nuttier: SolForge isn’t even out yet. It’s due late summer or early fall for iOS and PC and then later for Android.
What would get people to drop a half-grand on an otherwise free game that’s still months away from being released? If you’re nerdy enough, then the names Richard Garfield and Stone Blade Entertainment might do it.
Roguebook is a roguelite deck builder by Richard Garfield and the creators of the Faeria franchise, with a charming aesthetic and deep turn-based gameplay.
George from Bits & Pieces wrote up his impressions of the demo for Roguebook, a deckbuilder videogame by Richard Garfield, the creator of Magic: The Gathering. The game was Kickstarted a while ago, and they released the demo as part of the Steam Games Festival.
There's potential there, but he thinks it needs a fair bit of improvement.
If you played it, what did you think?
Andrew Otton of TechRaptor writes, "While at PAX West 2018, I had the chance to talk to Richard Garfield and Jeep Barnett about Artifact, why DoTA was the right fit, and what sets it apart."
It's already crazy that people spend the money that they do on Magic cards. But for this game that's not even out yet?
Played this on the iPad. It's just an unbalanced deck-building game, IMO.
Yeah, the balance needs work, but cool, quick gameplay.