27 Jan 2020
As one card game closes its doors, another one sets to throw them wide open. Star Realms is a pretty popular deck-building card game in both physical and digital forms, and the same development company is currently working on a digital successor – Epic. It’s framed more as a traditional TCG than Star Realms ‘build-as-you-go’ mentality but you can see some similarities in terms of the design.
Successfully Kickstarted way back in 2017, this fantasy-style TCG will be releasing on February 18th, 2020.
What’s more, it will be completely free, up to a point. The principle activities you can do without needing to pay anything are:
- No cost to download the app.
- No cost to get new sets.
- No cost or restrictions on online or offline casual play.
- Every player will have every card in the game and be able to build any deck, any time.
- You can own unlimited copies of every card.
- Casual play vs. the AI and in the campaign.
- Online matches, including Draft and other formats.
The only thing you will need to pay for are cosmetics, extras (like extra deck slots) and competitive play.
Existing players will be able to keep their username and any decks they’ve built, but they won’t be able Gold, Gems or Foil cards from their Alpha accounts.
Also, anyone who backed the game during the Kickstarter will be given extra stuff for free as compensation for the game going free-to-play. You can read the full details further down the announcement post here.
Epic Digital will be coming to iOS and Android.
https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/2020/01/...e-to-play/