Age of Rivals

One sententence review and additional information: A 1v1 deck-builder with civilization-like elements and a fair amount of randomness with great art direction, simple yet clever economic mechanics, and plenty of room for strategic bluffing. ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☑ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☑ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☑ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10

The backend server for this game is down and all cards are given as unlocks by default. I was looking forward to the progression of unlocking cards. With everything unlocked and no way to construct decks, there is literally no deck building in this game and it's mislabeled as such.

Rivals is a very nice light weight card game that has so many ways to win and lose. This is a bit like I hoped 7 Wonders duel would be more like. It plays like a solid table top game but with board game mechanics that almost would not be possible in a physical copy. To play a physical copy the cards would have to have some kind of dry erase or peal and play feature. The cards are stacked and shuffled in a way to make sure bad luck is less; this means in the first 4 cards you will get a trade card 100%. The only small knock I can think of is like much of online game play there is a ton of poor sportsman ship. There is an emote chat feature that cannot be turned off and when spammed covers up some of the game board. One thing that I was at first a bit brother by is some card are locked behind a in game currency pay wall as well as some of the rivals, but this is more like soft cap tutorial mode. Some of the cards added offer some advanced game play and are unlocked as you really start to understand the game.

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It's 7 Wonders on steroids. Me likey.

Great game!

Don't let the artwork or few reviews discourage you from playing this game, it is a really good deckbuilder and since the backend has been shutdown there is no grinding anymore, everything is unlocked.