Synapse GamesKongregateNov 14, 2016Free to playView on Steam ↗

Spellstone

Spellstone is a fantasy card game with beautiful hand-drawn art and rich lore! Collect hundreds of striking cards to battle through a compelling story and unravel the mystery of the Void.

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Spellstone is a fantasy card game with beautiful hand-drawn art and rich lore! Collect hundreds of striking cards to battle through a compelling story to unravel the mystery of the Void.

Heroes, creatures, monsters, demons, animals, and more are brought to life with a stunning hand-painted style.

Capture Spellstones to unleash ancient and powerful creatures! However, there is dark magic at work on the island. Will you become a Hero or be consumed by the Void?

Designed for desktop players, Live Multiplayer PVP adds a new layer of competition to the world of Spellstone! And follow the world of Spellstone through a series of special stories and other events too, with branching tales and powerful treasures.

Do you have what it takes to rise to the top of the Bounty Hunter charts? Battle players around the world for huge bonuses, powerful unlocks, and bragging rights.

Three factions of heroes and creatures to battle and control. Do you favor the Powerful Wyld, Nimble Aether, or Fiery Chaos?
Hundreds different creatures to collect, upgrade and fuse!
Master powerful card skills to win an edge over your opponents.
Battle thousands of other users around the world to prove who is the best!
96 levels and 7 levels of mastery with endless player rewards for each.
Hundreds of hand-drawn character cards that evolve as they become more powerful!

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Not recommended4h playedMar 2026

I have nonexistent play time on this Steam, but I have played this game and its predecessors (mainly War Metal: Tyrant) excessively on Kongregate and Android back when I was younger and less discerning. In short, it's a fun junk food game to click around and watch your numbers go up, but utterly messed up by power creep and exploitative microtransactions. You have a deck of 15 cards (originally 10 in Tyrant) and a hand of 3. Each turn you choose one to play. They have 0-4 wait, meaning they sit that many turns in play, vulnerable, before they activate and start doing things. Played cards go in a line and while they are active, your first card activates its 0-3 abilities and attacks the opponent's first card, and so on, and if the opposite side is empty they attack the opponent's face. You can see this in the store previews. In early Tyrant this played surprisingly well despite being so simple, with all the interplay between faster smaller cards and heavy hitters, and abilities that could heal, prevent or directly deal damage, or perhaps stun cards for a turn. In Spellstone all this is vastly overshadowed by ridiculous numbers creep. To illustrate, the common 1-wait card in your starting deck is a 2/3 with no abilities. Fully upgraded it becomes a 3/10 with Empower 2 (each turn, for that turn, one of your cards gets +2 attack). You can probably see that with this difference in numbers there's little room for strategy, a deck with cards of the fully upgraded power level will outclass the base level ones regardless of any strategy. Here's what an endgame 1-wait card (runed and fully upgraded Little Kawosha) looks like: 12/30, Hex all 5 (for this turn all enemy cards take +5 damage for each instance of damage dealt to them), Bolt all 3 (deal 3 damage to all enemy cards), Frostbreath 4 (deal 4 damage to the opposing and diagonally adjacent enemy cards if present). So if you add all that up and ignore potential mitigating abilities on the other side, this dude will deal 34 damage to the opposing card, 17 to the its diagonally adjacent ones and 8 to all others. Not only is this comically far apart from the starter cards, when every card looks like this except half of them with similar defensive abilities instead, the board becomes ridiculously messy too. There's no way to balance this. Most single player content becomes trivial pretty quickly and you'll just farm it on autoplay. There's some strategy and matchup considerations in very endgame play where you can assume people are at least pretty close to the same materials, having either kept grinding for a decade or sank obscene amounts of money. Even then, there are premium currency only card sets that are commonly a step above the grindable ones. Now imagine having cards halfway between my previous examples - you'll be untouchable to the newbies, and vice versa to the endgamers. That's what the pvp is like, sometimes you autowin, sometimes you autolose, and even when there's a real game to be had there's always a thumb on the scale. I recently got back into this for a bit and it's still fine junk food, but you cannot approach this as seriously at all. I do like the core systems and occasionally daydream about putting together a clone with a balanced card set, but unfortunately this and Synapse's other still maintained games are about milking the p2w crowd with forever power creep.

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