What other card games are players moving to?

Player-136478 · December 7, 2023, 5:56pm

Hello, like many others, I am moving on from this game. Is there a game that has less RNG and luck?

Something that has a strategy, more than 2-3 viable decks, and less child-casino using parent wallet vibes?

ascend0-2296 · December 7, 2023, 6:04pm

Legends of Runeterra
?

Careful though the Flag Police might come and claim this post is vandalism.

Skizzy-11719 · December 7, 2023, 6:08pm

I’ve heard a lot of good things about Marvel Snap, but haven’t tried it myself yet. It does seem to be Hearthstone’s #1 competitor at the moment and likely decreasing sales in the Hearthstone shop.

Boreas-1179 · December 7, 2023, 6:44pm

“moving to”?

nope im not moving to
i play more than one game

Skizzy-11719 · December 7, 2023, 7:07pm

I think most of us do, but our time is finite, so choosing which games to spend time on is a serious question. Which other games do you enjoy Boreas?

Boreas-1179 · December 7, 2023, 7:27pm

in case of card games runeterra and HS (got a little pissed off when found out they removed expeditions a while ago without giving epic capsusles for all the tokens i had so stopped playing it for months ) i m thinking on trying it again

used to play shadowverse but got bored of it years ago

tried mtg arena but is hard to keep up with it (talking about collection)

runeterra and HS are easier to play at the same time i just alt tab

im thinking on trying dual force eventually

Skizzy-11719 · December 7, 2023, 7:33pm

I kinda felt the same way. I enjoyed the game but didn’t feel like i could make any competitive decks

SuperCuddles-11193 · December 7, 2023, 7:46pm

I like Yu Gi Oh (like in real life)

NormMcdonald-11267 · December 8, 2023, 9:59am

because you’re a shill

Popopole-2952 · December 8, 2023, 10:18am

I know it is not a card game, but try chess if you hate RNG and want a game with 100% skill. In addition to that, it is F2P.

Boreas-1179 · December 8, 2023, 12:40pm

?
thats how people call having fun playing HS?

yilingsama-1965 · December 8, 2023, 1:37pm

I’ve tried a lot of card games, but I have to admit that Hearthstone is the one I find the most fun (randomness is fun), which is why I think Blizzard sucks but still play Hearthstone

fuglarg-1195 · December 8, 2023, 2:58pm

It gets very stale very fast. The monetization is bad. It is super grindy and formulaic.

Game lacks any depth.

I tried Runeterra a couple years ago, but I hated the graphics and stopped. Gameplay was okay, but I did not stick around long enough to really experience it.

Skizzy-11719 · December 8, 2023, 3:12pm

I actually tried Marvel Snap yesterday. Only played like 3 or 4 games but I am not seeing the appeal myself

Boreas-1179 · December 8, 2023, 4:33pm

and dual force ? havent tried that one yet

fuglarg-1195 · December 8, 2023, 4:35pm

Never even heard of it.

ascend0-2296 · December 8, 2023, 4:43pm

Don’t try dual force.

I tried it and the game was so buggy that I couldn’t even complete a tutorial game, the game has too many problems to be worth even considering, trust.

Boreas-1179 · December 8, 2023, 4:44pm

well the game was released around 3 months ago and the only reason i know its name is because it uses dc comics characters

Zee-1630 · December 8, 2023, 8:26pm

I am constantly on the lookout for a satisfactory replacement for Hearthstone, but I have yet to find one.

For me, Marvel Snap, Legends of Runeterra, Eternal, Shadowverse, Faeria, The Elder Scrolls: Legends, and Gwent all fell very short, which is why I am still here playing Hearthstone, despite Hearthstone’s issues of powercreep, broken cards, bad RNG, and a plethora of non-interactive decks.

Marvel Snap held my attention longer than most the other card games, but this was my conclusion about the game:

[Ben Brode : Blizzard] 2:0

Just wanted to sum up my take on Marvel Snap for anyone that was curious about the game, now that I have played MS enough to form some opinions.

1). The game can be played with a very casual approach by just focusing on completing missions and spending gold to renew missions, and still reach past Rank 50 each month before the ranks get reset.

2). MS is too simple of a game to be an adequate replacement for Hearthstone for most HS players.

3). 12 card decks (with no kind of mulligan) and 6 turns really limits the amount of strategy that can be employed during a match.

4). Too many matches are determined by RNG, and this problem is likely only going to get worse as MS develops, because it’s designed by the same devs that advocated for so much RNG in Hearthstone’s development.

5). With decks being so small and games being so short, the featured card that comes with purchasing the Season Pass often gives P2P players a very significant advantage over F2P players.

For these reasons, I decided to discontinue playing MS after trying the game for 3+ months.

MTG Arena is likely the best quality alternative card game to HS, but I am not willing to invest the kind of money it would take to be competitive into a digital card game with no chance of selling off my cards should I lose interest, like what could be done with a physical CCG.

I have never liked Yu-Gi-Oh as a a physical CCG, so I have never tried Yu-Gi-Oh: Master Duel. Another card game that I have not tried is Card City Nights 2—so I cannot review the game.

Here is an article listing the most popular alternatives to Hearthstone:

https://www.gamesradar.com/games-like-hearthstone/

I checked out Warcraft Rumble to get the card back, and for me the game had even less appeal than Hearthstone’s Mercenaries mode.

Considering that there does not seem to be any good card game alternatives to Hearthstone, it’s in Blizzard’s interest to revamp and fix HS while rebuilding its player base.

DJMANASTORM-1489 · April 13, 2024, 12:55pm

It’s not so much an issue of time as an issue of having a negative experience with hearthstone, and wondering if there’s any way to salvage some of the good aspects without the trash ones.