Wuxing Master 五行师(CCG)

Important note before installing this game: THIS GAME IS NOT IN ENGLISH. THERE'S NO ENGLISH TEXT ANYWHERE WITHIN THE GAME. However this is not a problem. In fact i have been playing this game for the past 2 days off steam from the website without any problems. Review: This game is very similar to Blizzard Entertainment's Heartstone. But it's also about 5x times better. Despite the game not being in English, its very easy to understand what to do once you get the hang of it. When the game starts, the game will load up, at first it may seem like its taking forever to load up, but it will start to load fast. I got 13mbps. I have 250mpbs. Once the loading is completed, it will ask you enter a name, no spaces. Once you get pass that, the game is similar to a mobile game, you will see a pointer showing you what to do next, its basically a tutorial and you continue following the tutorial. Only one mode is unlock , you will notice that its against the AI. Pros+ Similar to Heartstone but better Less Challenging than Heartstone which is a plus. Maybe its just me but Heartstone is very challenging. Chinese/Mandarin Voices. This is a plus, and sorry if i offend anyone but Chinese language sounds better than English Beautiful Visuals Beautiful Art Great sound effects and voices Single player mode vs the AI. Despite being in full Chinese, its not too difficult to understand once you take the time to play more and learn it. AI isn't too challenging, even when you are about to lose you come back and win Plenty of different cards with cool special abilities Unlocking rewards Good story , yea i don't understand it , but it is entertaining Runs perfect at 60fps at 1920x1080. Cons- No English Support. Bottom line: Highly recommend game. Fun game-play, not too challenging. and if anyone has any trouble, there' is a staff member that can help in the forums. He is very friendly. And i guess i can help as well if i can. I do hope there English buttons are added soon, but keep the Chinese voice please.

This is a really good game that is actually not at all like Hearthstone. If I had to compare it to any game, it would be the excellent but sadly discontinued Might and Magic: Duel of Champions. There are three types of cards: Creature cards, Spell cards and Equipment cards. These are tied to one of five different colours corresponding to the Chinese elements: Wood, Water, Metal, Fire and Earth. Decks have a minimum of 40 cards, can include a maximum of 3 of the same card, and can be a single colour or a combination of any of the five colours. Here's the, very clever, catch. Like Hearthstone, you also have a 'Leader ability' which you can select when building your deck. However, your leader ability will be much worse the more different colours your deck includes. Single colour decks tend to have beneficial reusable abilities, dual colour decks tend to have single use abilities while decks with three colours or more will generally only have disadvantages to choose from such as being able to play only one card a turn, damaging one of your units by 1 at the start of each turn or only being able to play 1 of each card in your deck rather than the usual 3. The cards themselves are cleverly designed as well. Cards automatically attack the spot opposing them, or the enemy leader if the spot opposing them is empty. This may seem like it limits design space but in fact it opens up room for a LOT of positioning related abilities and also allows many creatures to have activated abilities. The abilities are extremely diverse. Some, like Charge, will be familiar to those who have played games Hearthstone while others will be completely different. There is for example an ability which allows a creature attacking an enemy creature to deal extra damage to the opponent depending on how much its attack is higher than the opposing creatures attack (sort of like an attack-based MtG Trample ability). Unfortunately many of these abilities are fairly hard to translate and explain as the game is off course, entirely in Chinese. The game is generous in terms of what free cards it gives you as well. You can get free stuff both through story mode duels as well as puzzles and there is a large number of quests and achievements. It is entirely possible to play it entirely F2P although buying cards is really cheap in comparison to western CCGs as well due to the Chinese pricing. Add to that a large number of game modes: Practice, Ranked, Puzzles, Arena and Tournaments to name a few and this game is well, well worth a recommendation.

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国产良心TCG，不肝不氪无废卡，一个热血青年十多年的青春，喷子不分青红皂白说抄袭炉石，但其实并不是的！ 开发者梦想开始是在2003年，那时候他还只是某公司的策划，做的项目《互动武侠》是国内首款TCG，那时便爱上的TCG，之后十多年无法自拔。 怀揣梦想2005年融资没有成功， 2007年开发的《逍遥游》被合作者盗取。 2008年又做出全新的TCG《八仙online》，这就是《五行师》的前身。这应该算是国内最早的独立游戏了吧。两个人，一个负责程序，一个负责美术，没有收入来源，过年不敢回家，因为给不起压岁钱。 2009年《八仙online》成功了，但是运营商却赖账不给分成。 2010年被所在公司骗出来运营，其实公司已经没有钱了，想靠八仙养活公司，工资都一直拖着发不出来，但是很多玩家都已经充值了，怎么办呢，开发者自己拉出来租了服务器把八仙架设起来，利用业余时间更新。 2012年，撑不住了，还是有公司愿意接手八仙，开发者希望他们能做的更好，但是却失望了，公司将八仙更名为《玄机》后，做了一些不妥的改动，让它走上了末路。 开发者在2012年时成立了新公司，几经波折，来到2015年，靠着其他游戏赚了几百万。有了资金后，梦想又蠢蠢欲动，于是，决定再赌一把！！2015年7月开始，《五行师》立项了。 2017年7月，五行师上线了，历时两年，上线后在TapTap一度取得9.7的高分。 然而很多玩家看都不看一眼，就骂抄炉石。当初炉石刚出来的时候，还有很多八仙的老玩家来找开发者说炉石抄袭的事情。 2020年，五行师手游交给雷霆游戏运营了。 现在是2022年11月04日，时间过得好快。 国产良心TCG，真的希望大家可以客观看待事情，免费还好玩，不肝不氪，除非有收集癖。 《五行师》加油！

Ok, this is what I think about this game; Is it fun? It is, but here's the thing, I see most reviews claming that this is better than Hearthstone, and although everyone has their opinion, it's a stupid thing to say, here's why; - Hearthstone gives you freedom, you place a card, and attack what you want, here, you attack cards in front of eachother, unless by some effect it can target other things, so in this aspect, it's not better, it's easier for the casual player. - The fact that this has no english version cuts down a lot of the fun, yes, you can see a lot of effects of some cards in the tutorial, and that might guide people, but overall cuts down any chances to make a deck, unless you understand Chinese. - Again, you play by sense, hoping a card does something you want it to do and hope it doesn't ♥♥♥♥ your game plan. For now, this game get's a pass, simply because of the lack of english language. The fact the devs decided to launch this into steam without a english version, it's sad, because even tho a lot of steam's userbase is not from a english speaking country, most if not all use english as their language when it comes to online games. Typical mobile card game, might try it if the devs have the decency to put english in the game.

For those who can read Chinese, this is a strong recommendation. This is the first CCG that I actually enjoy playing (tried Hearthstone but didn't work out). Maybe because of the oriental characters that I can relate to. Maybe because the game is pretty easy to pick up and pretty satisfying to explore. First impression, I have had fun. Now, being a free-to-play game means that there are micro-transactions. Very much like Hearthstone I guess whereby you can buy decks. And they are pretty transparent on the "heavenly" card drop rate. You can buy "gold nuggets" using real money (it seems). And you can earn "ancient coins" while playing. Needless to say, "gold nuggets" seem to be a more valued currency in game. Also, there are daily login incentives too, like many f2p games these days. I don't read simplied Chinese well and unfortunately there is no traditional Chinese option (because I can read traditional Chinese much better). But I can sort of guess what the cards do. For those who don't read Chinese and hope that you can learn the game while playing, I really don't think that is possible. Keeping it real here.

很久以前玩过八仙，机缘巧合得知五行师前身是八仙，所以下载下来体验了一下，只能说玩法很有趣，值得推荐，但是非常逆天的UI和画面，远远不如八仙，我不知道steam上写着18年发行的游戏，是怎么做到这么逆天的，这方面反而不如前身八仙，我记得当时八仙的画面虽然没有炉石那么精致，但至少不是页游风啊？已经严重影响游玩和玩家氪金欲望了，反正这个玩法值得我充一个648+大小月卡+新手福利包的，但是反人类的ui和画面硬生生让我克制住了这股欲望，现在花时间写这篇评论，完全是因为想氪金又抑制住氪金欲望后，不爽又矛盾的心理发泄 ①请把活动做到一个页面，现在进去非常非常不方便，首充、战令、新手战令、大小月卡、新手活动、五日试炼、活动、福利、任务，这些整合到一起很难吗？剩下聚宝阁和商城凑一起不行吗？ ②整体画面页游风，甚至不如现在的AI画图，至少我找的AI资源可以冲，而主页看板娘龙女和一众卡牌没有让人冲的欲望，也做不到让我认为“美”，十几年时间我还记得八仙中金灵圣母的造型，相反，五行师里小青和杏仙一眼真看不出多大区别，一眼看过去都是绿卡萝莉，小青作为知名神话传说人物的橙卡，毫无特点，总不能说是因为登录第二天就送的原因吧？ ③组卡页面极度反人类，设计这块的家伙应该拉出去炮决，关键字检索卡牌竟然不能敲回车，否则聊天框就会弹出来，这是哪个鬼才想出来的？自己操作过吗？上下翻页不能用滚轮，要用鼠标上下拖动？我作为新手有19页，不检索的情况需要拖动十几次？编辑卡组，增减卡牌不能使用鼠标左右键，需要点开后选择“+”或者“-”，设计的时候考虑过玩家增减卡牌的时候多不耐烦吗？鼠标移动到卡组上，需要点击卡牌名称，再点击放大镜图标，才能看到卡牌本体，设计的时候没感觉不方便吗？ ④背景音乐能换吗？实在不行学GHG工作室的星海之约搞个3AI大作吧，我真的感觉我学了一个月AI的老婆做的图片都比现在这些廉价页游风格的图片要赞

I thought it was another crappy CCG games, and it turns out a guite deep and fun game. It is good to know all those Chinese gods. Like it. Give it a try. 一开始觉得是个很傻山寨游戏，玩了一段才发现还挺有深度和有趣的。鼓励鼓励，已买包支持。可以试试。

游戏挺好的，steam里充值，但开了加速器登录不了游戏，不开加速器steam扣不了钱，强制免费玩，真好

there seems to be some huge connection issues which are known but there is no fix out - yet. i paid small amounts of cash, had to contact them by email 4/5 times because i didnt receive anything but cash was taken, this was steams fault tho as they have problems with transactions between foreign countries such as china. (i got compensated but still steam should fix their sh*t) writing this after getting my 6th disconnect for today which also prevents logging back on for like 10-20mins, usually, latest gave me disconnect over hour ago - still unable to pass the steam icon... can only imagine the effort it takes for small company to release something overseas. yet still after those major negative things, i give the game a thumbs up since im positive the connection issues will be fixed eventually. other than those, when your able to play the game with no interruptions, its way better than most CCGs out there, AND its not an p2w unlike most of them are. many thanks for the dev team for this game! EDIT: After 2 months and no attempt to fix the errors people are having and only adding some minor things in latest patches im giving it an thumbs down, doesnt deserve thumbs up when they know people are suffering from connection issues and other errors yet no actual fixes are brought out. PS: my connection is fine, no interruptions or connection issues in other games, i play with PS4 and laptop & desktop with 100mb fiber connection & roughly 200games requiring online connection, only on this 1 i get errors.