
Star Crusade: War for the Expanse is a free-to-play, online, digital collectible card game (CCG) based in a richly styled sci-fi universe, where each player takes command of one of the six factions vying for supremacy in an unclaimed exotic sector of space.
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I started playing this and Hearthstone at the same time, so I'm late to Digital CCG, but I have played MTG off and on for 15+ years, so the concept is hardly new. After playing both Hearthstone and Star Crusade, I prefer Star Crusade. I find there more diversity on how the board is controlled, within the factions play styles, and multi-turn synergy/combos. It can be easy to download, play a few hands, and dismiss as "Hearthstone in SPACE" (Warcraft the Gathering?), but if you stick with it you will quickly see how it defines itself differently. The basic cards you get are decently strong and I have had success with them while earning packs, so you are not immediately at a huge disadvantage. I hope they are some how able to maintain this, as it allowed me to get into the game quickly and not eye roll when my opponents are playing the same legendary cards match after match. Other than the game itself, the UI is good. Some of the card art is great, while some is laughable. The voices follow the same trend, but with 350 cards thus far there will be winners and losers, and it's also subjective. Whether you are new to CCG or have been playing MTG from the beginning this game has something to offer, and at time of writing it is only Beta.
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Hearthstone. In. SPAAAAACE! But in all seriousness, if one hasn't already guessed from the screenshots and other reviews, it's so mechanically similar to Hearthstone that it may as well be a reskin. If that fact already turns you off from the game, I don't blame you. A lot of what you'll see in this game is something Hearthstone already does, but with far more polish. Hearthstone is by far the more developed game compared to Star Crusade, and Hearthstone doesn't take itself nearly half as seriously as Star Crusade does. It's not a [i]bad[/i] game, but it's difficult to judge Star Crusade on its own merits when much of it is so heavily borrowed from another game. However, that's not to say that Star Crusade doesn't try to mix things up a little. Where there are obvious similarities, if not downright carbon-copied mechanics/classes with different labels --I'm looking at you Terran(Paladin) and Hierarchy(Priest)-- the game does try to introduce concepts you won't find in Hearthstone like Criticals, Mutate, Soak, Armored, etc. Some mechanics are not very well-explained, though, and tend to be up to the player to figure out (Criticals insta-kill, I think?) and in a CCG, not knowing what your or your enemy's cards do in the middle of a game is [i]bad[/i]. I will say that I'm having fun with the game so far, unpolished as it is. It's certainly worth a try for the novelty of playing a Hearthstone-like game with some different features you won't find in Blizzard's own CCG. Ultimately, it's hard to say if Star Crusade is really trying to be a good alternative to Hearthstone, or if it's a cynical 'follow-the-leader' cash grab hoping to net some Blizzard fans. For now, I give it a tentative recommendation, if only for novelty's sake and the fact that it's free, but if you're looking for a Hearthstone 2.0, this probably isn't it.
Take down the game it was shut down a while back stop making people think the game is even remotely playable
It's pay 2 win, but it's still fun. I didn't play ranked yet cause I don't have a suitable deck for it, but I think it will keep me occupied for some time now. But I'm talking about Free part, no way I'm gonna pay big dollars for those crates and boosters. :) It's similar to Hearthstone, Magic and all other card games out there.
I left the game running just to drop this review. The game is dead, based on all the (30 mins) of research. The game has not ran for a while not, it closed down for a bit in may, and came back online and apparently went back offline again last seen, was last working in October, and back down again sometime in november or december, and down again. The game goes, seemingly, in 2 month periods of being down for. Unfortunate circumstances. Devs are not responding, there are no dev updates on their site, their steam discussion area, nor their patchnotes of any kind. I have not been able to play this game. I will not be trying again obviously. Devs don't care enough to even have the servers up.
Way more fun than I expected. It's a sci-fi version of Hearthstone with more unique mechanics. It's fun, it's easy to learn (if you know Hearthstone you actually won't have to learn almost anything). It's not Pay2Win, but Pay2Play, just like every other card game out there. You got to invest time and money to get really far. Same with Hearthstone and every other TCG and CCG, no escape from that. All in all, a good, basic, card game with a lot of fun mechanics and, in my opinion, even more fun than Hearthstone itself. Edit 1: Changed the Pay2Win comment to Pay2Play. Thanks to Baaron for clearing me up on that one :D
Game that seems to have a solid structure but when you go forward you realize that if you do not pay there you are stuck, I played it for a long time on the mobile and I expected it to be better now, but it is still the same, I do not recommend spend your Time in something else.
Game dead. Do Not Buy
Game is not working anymore, but it is not even taken down from Steam store. "Sorry, commander, connection problems."
Извините, командир, проблемы с подключением к серверу... Сначала мы кидаем 2D-художников, а потом и вовсе молча превращаем игру в мусор. Достижения не работают, поиграть тоже не сможете.
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