If you fancied the concept of Gwenting via a singleplayer RPG in Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales however for no matter purpose didn’t purchase it from GOG, voila: the cardboard game is now on Steam too. After debuting on GOG on October 23rd, it hit Steam on Friday, 17 days later.
“I’ve seen headlines spinning Thronebreaker as an RPG in its own right, and I could even understand if it was compared to a visual novel at times. But really, it’s a card game with walky bits. And that’s perfectly fine,” our Brendan stated in his Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales review. “Because it’s a good card game, with good-looking walky bits. Just don’t go in expecting The Witcher 3.5.”
If that is the primary you’re listening to of all this, I’ll clarify. Thronebreaker is a singleplayer story set on this planet of The Witcher, the place battles are performed out utilizing the Gwent card game from The Witcher 3. Talk to individuals, click on on dialogue choices, click on round a map, resolve a couple of puzzles, do playing cards.
The massive draw is that Thronebreaker’s writing expertise contains the individual behind the Witcher 3’s Bloody Baron questline. Which our boy Brendy used to ship a cheeky backhanded praise.
“Lord knows the voice acting is at least as good as it is The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and so is the writing. By that I mean the writing is a passable exploration of fantasy tropes and power politics that’ll probably become hugely overrated.”
‘Bazinga’, I believe I’ve heard the youngsters say. Ooh hark at him, he’s learn books, he’s putting games in a wider cultural context, who does he suppose he’s.
Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales is out now on Steam and GOG, priced at £23.39/€25.89/$29.99.
For a much less of a snip-snap-snappy-slam-slammer of a take, right here’s our Matthew:
