Digital games are embracing the influence of card games. (From 2021)
. The core gameplay will be familiar to veterans of board games like Dominion or Thunderstone: The player starts with a small, weak deck and slowly adds better pieces to it over the course of a campaign, eventually molding it into an efficient, demon-killing machine.
That is a paradigm shift. For decades, there's been a quiet schism between the video game and tabletop communities. The two industries rarely mingled, and when they did, it was usually in the form of a licensed adaptation—the mobile version offor example. But lately, in an ecosystem of airtight MOBAs, 60-frames-per-second shooters, and endless RPGs, many gamers prefer to drag and drop cards on a computer.isn't alone.
"We can let the mechanics get more complicated without becoming inaccessible," says Krausnick. "In a physical game, you'd have to run the numbers and play it out, and it'd take four hours to play." All of this makes you consider where the industry will go from here. The tabletop industry is enjoying a historic boom,
, which means that the avenues of influence into the Steam charts will likely stay open for quite some time. But Thomas Moon Kang, creator of the real-time card battlerhas a different theory. He notes that some of the most popular board games of the past few years all attempt, in various different ways, to imitate video games.
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