GWENT: Rogue Mage

CD PROJEKT S.A.

About this game

Hundreds of years before Geralt and the other witchers roamed the Continent, the Conjunction of Spheres brought endless ranks of monsters into the world. Humanity desperately needed a way to fight back the onslaught to survive.

Follow the journey of a young and ambitious mage, Alzur, and his companion Lily, who embark on a dangerous quest to create a living weapon that will eradicate the monster threat once and for all.

GWENT: Rogue Mage is a first single-player expansion to GWENT: The Witcher Card Game. It combines the best elements of roguelike, deckbuilding, and strategy games with the unique mechanics of GWENT card battles.

Ratings and reviews

The game is good, but encounters seem to drag on a little bit. I think the original "best of 3" phase encounters worked much better, adding an extra element of strategy that this is currently missing. At the moment it feels occasionally abit brainless, although it must be admitted that I am still in the relatively early stages. I definitely preferred the 3 stages, 2 crowns to win aspect from previous Gwent installments, however I'm sure(hoping)things can be adapted to improve the current system.

The game is ok. I love Gwent and I love roguelikes but the game balance is off. Not worth the $10 right now. It has potential but needs some tweaks like going to the best 2 out of 3 or giving you a choice of starting cards. It is fun for a bit and then frustrating. Roguelikes are hard to master and this one just feels repetitive. You have no chance of winning until you are a high level which is just a grind. This game feels like a grind!

Deck builds don't save. Every start is fresh and the bosses can be extremely hard. You absolutely have to use spells to make it to the final boss and some of them are ridiculous. You can think your doing fine 130-30 and all of the sudden every one of your cards are dead, hand attacked, energy drained. So many mechanics you really can't see on the surface. It's fun but it really wastes your time with little to show for it

What's new

This update improves the game's stability on Android phones and tablets, and disables all network functionalities, telemetry and in app purchases.