In the world of tactical card games, is there any man more revered than Richard Garfield, the creator of Magic: The Gathering? Maybe whoever actually invented cards, but since they're not coming forward to take credit, Garfield holds the top spot.
Roguebook is a roguelike deckbuilder (like Slay The Spire, Dicey Dungeons, and Hand of Fate) that counts Garfield as one of its designers, working alongside the developers of Faeria, Abrakam Entertainment, to create a game set in the world of Faeria itself.
Roguebook currently has a demo on the Steam Game Festival, available until February 9th, if you want to check it out. The full game has a 24th of June release date on PC, with the Nintendo Switch version coming "later".
Have you been craving another roguelike deckbuilder? Do you hate having to say "roguelike deckbuilder"? Let us know in the comments.
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Taking note, I love these types of games.
I'm a huge fan of both Magic The Gathering and King of Tokyo, so I'm also a huge fan of Richard Garfield. I'm hoping this turns out great.
@dkxcalibur You can play this right now in the Steam games festival. Played the demo last night, it was good.
@Kalmaro If you haven't already I suggest you to keep an eye out for SteamWorld: Hand of Gilgamech.
@Ephralance Wait, the Steamworld people made ANOTHER game?!
Harold Vanderbilt is more revered by card players, to answer the question.
I haven't played Magic the Gathering in years since the late 90's and I enjoyed Hearthstone and Slay the Spire so I will definitely look into this.
I loved Faeria (but hated the mobile style icon), and once was pretty deep into Magic the Gathering. So this will be something I check out for sure.
I wish Wizards of the Coast would not be so crazy slow with expanding Magic Arena to other platforms though. Because that's the one I really want.
@Kalmaro Look up Ignite, its a deckbuilding skirmish game... its insane (tabletop game)
I find it a little odd they were able to release so many mtg console games in previous gens like ps3/xbox 360 and now are so locked down to 1 game.
I loved deckbuilder ! I'm rubbish at them, but I love them nonetheless
Cultist Simulator just came out on switch, did some of you tried it yet ? I was hoping for, maybe, a review from Nintendo life ? The game is actually pretty cheep at the moment too (europe)
@doctorhino
Wrong. He was some railroad tycoon that died in 1970 and had something to do with contract bridge AND nothing to do with MTG.
In other news, I am hopeful that this game can be as good as Slay the Spire. Garfield’s Keyforge was a fun diversion, but I’m interested to see a new take on deck-building from him.
I'm interested in this game, but with how it's created I can see this game being a microtransaction hellscape for a roguelike. Thankfully roguelikes don't use those, but this game feels like it will showcase all the tropes. You can already see it in the deluxe preorder. More cards, and alt skins. New characters and cards will bog down the game a lot I think.
@JimmySpades @Solomon_Rambling not claiming to know the history just clarifying for anyone cause I didn't think mtg came out that long ago.
I would say mtg was probably also inspired by board games but w/e
Game looks good. I definitely enjoyed my time with Faeria for a bit (about roughly 25ish hours), though nowhere as close as I have with Slay the Spire (850+ hours and counting).
Regardless, I always love me some more roguelike.
Its pretty fun. Looking forward to the full version.
@doctorhino
My comment was intended only as a joke. It’s on me for not wording it better!
@Kalmaro Yes and kinda no? It's the newest SteamWorld game but it came out in 2018 iirc? It's a deck-building dungeon crawling RPG in the style of the SteamWorld games we know and love.
I enjoyed the game enough that I even did a NG+ playthrough.
If you're a fan of deck-building games I suggest you check it out.
@doctorhino Actually MTG came out in the early to mid 90's. Some of my cards are Alpha up to 4th edition when I stopped playing.
@superderper I use to frequent alot of roleplaying cons in the 90s and got a few of them that way.
@Tasuki
You should go through what you have and price them out. I think you’ll be plea$antly surprised at what you find..!
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