http://www.infinitywarsgame.com(Steps on how to join at the bottom)
Another TCG, this one with fully animated cards! Infinity Wars is a newer TCG, and is definitely one of the most fun ones out there nowadays. Currently in beta, Infinity Wars patches about once every 2 weeks, and has a big update (100 more cards) coming that should release soon. It has been steam green lit, and should hopefully go up onto steam sometime in the next couple of months.
Some things about Infinity Wars:- Turns activate (mostly) simultaneously. Players alternate "initiative" which determines who's cards resolve first in the event of a conflict, but both players characters attack or defend "simultaneously", meaning draws are fully possible.
- Each card has a morale value as well as an attack and defense value. Each player starts with 100 morale as well as 100 health, and when a creature dies their morale value is subtracted from the player's morale total. Players can win by either bringing their opponent's health or morale to zero (in fact some factions specialize in winning this way!).
- Game uses a resource mechanic similar to hearthstone, where players start with 1 resource that can be spent on anything, with the maximum increasing each turn up to 10 (though it can be raised higher through certain cards and the trading post).
- Trading post allows for the spending of your resources to draw more cards, increase your resource cap, or shuffling cards from your hand into your deck.
- Merged dock mode, where both players share a single deck.
- Command zone - This is a zone where you are allowed to place three creature cards, which can use their abilities to affect the battlefield or may be played out from, essentially allowing you to top deck your favorite three cards of a deck.
- Purity - In order to determine which cards you can place into your deck each card has a "purity" value, where it requires a certain amount (0-3) of your commanders to be of their faction.
- Draft mode - One of the more balanced draft modes I've seen in these kind of games.
- Unique digital mechanics - They actually take advantage of the fact that this is a digital game, and they do it well.
- Single Player mode! Right now the game has both a (fairly small) campaign and a (not very good) AI. These are planned to be improved as the game develops, and playing AI's does give in-game currency rewards (though not very big ones).
- 7 Unique 'factions' as well as factionless cards. These are:
- Cult of Verore - Control based faction, kills other creatures to grow stronger
- Descendants of the Dragon - Morale based faction, wins through building up unbreakable defenses and grinding the opponent down
- Flame Dawn - Rush faction, specializes in high attack low defense creatures that rush onto the battlefield
- Genesis Industries - Specializes in combining creatures to buff them, making huge single creatures
- Warpath - Tanky faction with many expensive high attack/defense creatures, slow to ramp up, but difficult to stop
- Sleepers of Avarach - Zombies that grow stronger as they die, eventually overrunning the opponent
- The Exiles - Demon faction currently in progress but has a very big rework coming on the horizon
And it's
totally free. Yes, you can buy booster packs, but those can also be bought with the in-game currency at fairly good rates, and there are only a small handful of items that can't be bought with said in-game currency (all of which are cosmetic only!). Also there are enough soul bound cards given out to make it fairly easy to get many cards anyways, as well as daily rewards for just logging in, playing three games, and doing some quests (such as kill 250 characters, or win with >50 health and morale).
Screenshots:You can't see it due to them being static images, but all of the cards have short animation loops that play constantly.
How to join:1) Go to
http://www.infinitywarsgame.com.
2) Click on "Got a Code?"
3) Create a new account and enter 8D4BD as your code.
4) Download the launcher and launch it. It's a fairly large download the first time (150 MB or so) but after that it just has to do occasional small ones.
5) If you want to add me in-game as a friend (it might do this automatically since it's my invite code) my in game username is "OtherPlayers".
Starting Tips1) Play the campaign. Beating it all gives a fair amount of cards.
2) Getting to level 3 in a given faction gives a large number of cards in that faction.
3) Saving up to buy one of the pre made faction decks is a good starting strategy, after that the big booster packs are the way to go.
4) Log in every day and play three games (even against the AI, which are fairly dumb right now). Complete quests whenever possible.
5) Generally early on you don't want to do draft mode games. Once you've got some games under your belt draft mode is one of the best ways to get more rare cards, however.
6) For the first 24 hours after you join the collectors pack has a huge discount. This means for $1-2 you can get a fair amount of cards, including some rarer ones to help you get started.
