Developer: White Wizard Games
Publisher: White Wizard Games
Rrp: £Free (£3.99 to unlock all content)
Released: 8th March 2016
Available on: Steam
Played using: Mouse and Keyboard
Space, the final frontier, and like all frontiers it’s a place filled with opportunities and conflict. Four factions fight for supremacy among the stars the Trade Federation, the Machine Cult, the Star Empire and finally the Blob. Each have their strengths and weaknesses and now it’s up to you to decide who’s side you’re on.
Star Realms is a deck building card game. That means that all the cards for the game (with exception of expansions/DLC’s) are included within the base game, unlike with Collectible Card Games like Magic the Gathering.
At the beginning of the game both you and your opponent start with the same deck (with the exception of campaign mode). During the course of the game you will improve your deck by purchasing new cards which will get shuffled into your main deck and hopefully scrapping the old ones. The aim of the game is to reduce your opponents ‘Authority’ (read life) to zero.
This game is free to play but has most of its better features such as harder enemy AI and the Pass and Play mode hidden behind a paywall. Once you’ve purchased the full version everything is freely available with exception of DLC’s.
Even though this game hides some features behind a paywall, all the cards from the base set are available from the start. The only micro-transactions you’ll find are to buy the expansions and those aren’t too ‘in your face’ about it.
It’s also a cross platform game, meaning that if you bought DLC for it on Steam it will be carried over to any other devices you own that have the game installed (as long as you click ‘restore purchases’ within the game). I think this is wonderful and wish this practice were more wide spread. I’ve always felt it was wrong that I had to rebuy DLC just because I changed to a different console or PC.
You can also play online against others that are different platforms too, so you could be battling someone who’s on their phone, whichever think is actually kind of great.
I feel it would be wrong of me not to mention that this is also a physical card game. One that I have bought and played several times since playing it on Steam originally. If that doesn’t stand as a testament to how enjoyable the game is I’m not sure what else I can say or do to convince you. At the end of the day you can try it out for free, if it floats your boat, great, consider purchasing the full version. If it doesn’t appeal then no harm no foul.
If this appeals to you perhaps try;
Armello
Space Foodtruck
Gremlins Inc
