Recent reviews by Thavleifrim

this is a good port with a few cool new features (for example you can swap between mega mix and future tone graphics) it also works with custom arcade controllers though you may need to manually configure them in steam for steam to detect them.

Fun game with a pretty unique concept.

one of the best rhythm games on steam.

Music packs lately have been lacking in quality songs and the publisher seems uninterested in improving things. a shame given this game lives and dies by its music quality.

Fun and unique, server issues are unfortunate but seem to be getting better quickly.

Very buggy as others have said, the game should not have been released in this state. I will be refunding.

Persona 4 Golden is one of if not the best game I have ever played, at the very least its the best game on steam. if you missed this on ps2 and never owned a vita, play it now.

do you want a free game? play hearthstone

thats the only point id give hearthstone over artifact, yes it costs money, but hey id rather spend $5 and buy the card i want on the market palce than spend hundred and maybe never get it on hearthstone. there also seems to be some misconception about the entry price point, you arent paying $20 for the game you are paying $20 for 10 packs, the price it costs, in otherwords you are paying for the cards you need to play the game, even if it was a free download youd need the cards to make decks so it wouldnt get you anywhere.

dropping the business model for a while and talking about the actual game, this is the first time ive played a TCG since i picked up magic all those years ago that actually feels unique and like its doing new things, for those unfammiliar this is effectively a best of three except you play all three rounds simultaneously across three lanes, building a deck also has an interesting twist with hero cards, for those that have played commander in MTG you already know how these work, you choose 5 heroes for deck, which determine your color identity, you can only play spells in a lane if you have a hero that matches the color of that spell, mana also ticks up once per turn like hearthstone, however there is no forced cap of 10 mana. you also have a seperate deck for items, (think equipment if you are coming from MTG) instead of drawing cards from this deck you "buy" them with gold which you earn by either killing your opnents creeps and heroes or from certain cards.

The game itself is fast paced and displays calculated combat damage for you at all times so that you always know exactly what will happen in the combat phase with the current board state and allows for plenty of strategy when considering weather to go all out to tkae control of a lane or if you would be better off conserving resources for another lane, there are also specific strong cards that can target any lane which allow you to get the best use of your mana in an uncontested lane.

Overall Id say artifact is a fun and unique card game with a fair business model, yes it costs money, everything worth having does. atleast if you decide to walk away froma rtifact in a few years you can sell your cards to recoup cost. goodluck getting any sort of refund partial or otherwise out of blizzard for your hearthstone account.

Better than the first in pretty much every way, combat however is still the games biggest weakness, though it has improved substantially since the first game.

The best civ yet on launch, world congress is the only thing missing from civ v after its xpacs and the new features make up for that, perhaps a little lacking in civs though.