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Faeria
Released On: Aug 13, 2020
80
6.6
Where to Buy
Where to Buy
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
80
73% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
27% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
80
73% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
27% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Faeria is packed with content without coming across bloated. It’s complex without ever feeling confusing or intimidating. Most importantly though it’s a fun and exciting time combining card and board game mechanics wonderfully.
Along with the expected multiplayer modes (ranked and casual battles), Faeria delivers a compulsive, interesting and frankly enormously fun card battle experience. While not the easiest game to explain, it's an impressive teaching tool for itself, but never feels overwrought or tiresome in said education. Of the card games we've enjoyed on Switch, Faeria is easily the highlight of the bunch so far, and it deserves to do well. It's a full-featured package and stands out as an excellent card/board/strategy experience. If you want to play a fantasy card game on Switch, buy this one first.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 20 User Ratings
6.6
50% Positive
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
20% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
30% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 20 User Ratings
6.6
50% Positive
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
20% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
30% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
This is the only professional online CCG with a pay-to-play model:
You unlock all cards with one-time-purchases, and then collect them ingame. Which alone is a HUGE advantage over all the other pay2becompetitive card games, and makes playing the game a LOT cheaper in the long run!
The controls take a bit to get used to, but then, work intuitively and like a charm!
Quality-wise, Faeria is bursting with content, that can be played alone, vs players and cooperatively, and keep you busy for a long time.
The mechanics are deep and clever, and deep thinking and optimal play are highly rewarded.
And finally, there still is an active online community, that you can play with and against.
This is my favourite card game, and i recommend it whole-heartedly!
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Nintendo Switch
If you enjoy playing Magic the Gathering you should definitely consider playing Faeria! It combines interesting creature-based combat mechanics with strategic board occupation and resource management. Magic players will automatically feel very comfortable with the combat system but new players should not feel intimidated. I have been playing Faeria for 8 days solid now and here are the things I like most about it:
1. The look / sound / feel of the game world is beautiful and immersive.
2. The game 'tutorial' is actually just a series of puzzles which teaches you new mechanics at your own pace.
3. The 4 different 'suits' of cards all play quite differently which keeps things fresh.
4. It's fun cracking chests for new cards and they are generous with how regularly you earn new chests.
5. There is also quite a generous 'crafting' system for acquiring new cards.
6. There are quite a number of interesting and varied game modes to explore.
7. The power level of the cards seems very well balanced. Unlike in Magic the Gathering, you don't need to build a deck full of 'bomb rares' to enjoy success.
I am really pleased I decided to try Faeria. It is a fun, balanced and carefully constructed strategy game set in a beautiful game world. While I cannot disagree with other reviewers who have criticised the necessity to be permanently connected to the internet to play, this is no different to playing Magic Arena at home on your laptop, so don't let this deter you from trying Faeria.
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Nintendo Switch
It is loads of fun to play, has some great atmosphere and artwork to enjoy, and I recommend it wholeheartedly. However, it does not take advantage of many of the things that make the Switch so great. It does not handle the native LCD well with fonts in many places that are just too small, it also loses much of its portability in its mandate to remain always online in order to play. It remains a fantastic gaming experience, only one ever so slightly less fantastic that its PC counterpart, and the lack of cross-save will force you to choose a side, so choose wisely...
Other than a few slight problems I would recommend this to any card game fans out there, it stays true to everything we love about card games while adding its own unique twist. Abrakam has done a great job accomplishing their goal for Faeria; by focussing development on its extensive single player mode, it gives me hope for developers to implement something similar in their own card games for the future increasing replayability and attracting more of a casual scene to an often competitive genre.
Faeria is as enjoyable as it is deep, offering many hours of solo content, with the option to compete online if you so choose. The combination of board and card game is a lot of fun to play and new cards are unlocked at a fast, exciting pace.
Combining some fascinating mechanics I've never seen in a card game with a lot of variety, there's plenty to recommend Faeria. Its held back however by poor tools to really learn the game and design decisions that just don't fit a portable console. Add in concerns for the future of the game and I'm nervous to invest too much more of myself into Faeria, but it may be too late for me to stop. It has that wonderful just one more game quality that will keep me firing it up. Just make sure you know what you're getting before you decide to follow me.
While I enjoyed playing Faeria, and will continue to enjoy playing it, the laggy gameplay and required internet connection creates enough friction for me to know that I won’t be playing for hours on end. It’s a fairly decent game, but with its flaws on Nintendo Switch I don’t think it’s going to be a classic CCG anytime soon.
Incredible card game. This is the definition ****. Great single player and multiplayer. Co-op fights, exciting puzzles, draft mode, there's so much content on the base game alone. If you enjoy card or strategy games get this one.
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Nintendo Switch
A solid digital CCG/board game hybrid with attractive visuals, pleasant music, and a wealth of complexity and strategic depth, marred by its 'always online' requirement, awkward UI, and day one DLC that's more expensive than the base game.
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Nintendo Switch
Tried to get into it but it’s too slow and boring. Thought it was going to be more like a pvp slay the spire, but creeping slowly across the board and waiting for your enemy play their damn turn is just exhausting.
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Nintendo Switch
The game is great, but the fact that you have to be connected to the internet is plain weird for a portable console. If you are in the middle **** and your device goes to sleep you have to be lucky enough that the game can reconnect. If not, gone is your progress. After the so much time losing progress due to this I ended up deleting the game. Was it too much to have the game save the progress you made?
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Nintendo Switch
Too many broken cards and huge design flaws. No updates or balance changes present in the last 3 years. Therefore, this game is almost dead. Also, the always online feature on PC and Nintendo Switch is aggravating.
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Nintendo Switch
Summary Faeria combines the core values of Strategy Card Games together with a Living Board, giving you the ability to shape the board as you play to create mind-blowing strategies. Each game of Faeria is not only unique, beautiful and fast-paced but also highly competitive.
Platforms:
- PC
- Nintendo Switch
- Xbox One
- PlayStation 4
Initial Release Date: Aug 13, 2020
Developer:
- Abrakam SA
Publisher: Versus Evil
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