Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales Reviews
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We’ve talked a lot about Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales already. We were all shocked when the game was first unveiled three years ago, first as just a standalone Gwent multiplayer game, then evolving into a full-fledged card-based RPG of its own. It was a game that could have easily failed in the hands of less competent developers, but this is CD Projekt Red we’re talking about. Naturally, they made sure to tinker their little spin off title to be as good as the mainline Witcher games t...
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Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales is a gorgeously crafted game and has something for different types of gamers. The game has three difficulties, perfect for those who want to play normally, want a brutal challenge, or just simply explore and enjoy the story.
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CD Projekt Red knows how to write a character-based story. For what is essentially a visual novel broken up by relatively brief card game battles, Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales spins a seriously impressive yarn, and it's this gripping narrative that keeps you glued to your controller.
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Thronebreaker is a masterful RPG with a version of Gwent that is well-suited for a single-player experience. Even if you aren’t into card games, this one is worth a try for the story and RPG mechanics alone.
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The digital card game genre has been steadily growing for years following Blizzard’s hugely popular title Hearthstone. With big names like Magic the Gathering and Valve’s Artifact soon to join the fray, it’s becoming a hugely competitive space.
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Though tainted by a broken difficulty mode, Thronebreaker stands on the shoulders of The Witcher as a morally complex and often harrowing Macbethian tale of royal revenge and revolt.
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With Gwent having fully released in October, Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tale’s launch is a timely extension of that experience. The development team isn’t shy about how the two are related, either. For instance, Thronebreaker has a “Multiplayer” option in the main menu that opens up the Gwent client if you have it installed. There are also cards strictly for Gwent unlocked throughout your Thronebreaker adventure.
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Part of what makes Gwent so fun in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is how it is contextualized within the latter’s fictional world. Plotlines have you building your deck across multiple matches, and occasional dialogue branches let you settle disputes with cards instead of swords. Thronebreaker, a new Gwent-based campaign set in the world of The Witcher, takes this concept to its logical conclusion, telling a new tale using Gwent as its core. It works surprisingly well, as the story delivers strong political intrigue, character moments, and tough moral choices. These all hold Thronebreaker together as the standard card-slinging gradually...
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The Gwent card game is now fully released, and so is Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales, a single-player campaign based upon it. Though unlikely to convert huge numbers to the card game, it at least provides another engaging tale in the Witcher universe.
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Gwent became a means to an end by the finale, a necessary thing to do to unlock the next story segment, and something I would avoid when possible. Its a shame because Thronebreaker does some good work modifying the familiar Gwent rules, they just get easily overshadowed by the main storyline and the various decisions you can find along the way.
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Thronebreaker is a great way to learn how to play Gwent for beginners, but it will leave veteran Gwent players completely unchallenged even on the hardest difficulty.
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It’s much quicker to list the few things Thronebreaker gets wrong than the many, many things it does delightfully well. Aside from being one of the best-written RPGs I’ve played in years, the varied ways it keeps its card-based combat from stagnating across a 40ish-hour campaign are admirably clever and well thought-out. Deck building and some light RPG elements that allow upgrading specific cards give a feeling of progression to your two-dimensional army, and expertly crafted companions that aren’t shy about leaving you out in the cold create a satisfying, meaningful feedback system for your actions. If you like a...
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Thronebreaker struggles as a card game but excels as a Witcher game due to its rich narrative and excellent, if simple, worldbuilding.
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The Witcher universe has been charming people all over the world for quite some time now, even more following the release of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. While Geralt is the central character of both the novels and the games developed by CD Projekt Red, there's so much more to the Continent outside of the witcher and his closest friends. And this is where Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales comes in. The new role-playing game manages not only to expand The Witcher universe with another great tale but also shows how it's possible to create a refreshing experience based on a...
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Right now, I have a deck that’s a bit cheesy, full of traps and firebombs that slowly bleed any enemy to death as they fight. But part of me is hoping for another twist that’ll throw even more cards into my hands, snatch my beloved deck away from me, and force me to experiment a little. At the risk of opening a vein I should have closed, I’m waiting for the mine cart to get de-railed and send me over the next gorgeous cliff.
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