What are some single-player card video games like Hearthstone or Magic: The Gathering Arena without microtransactions?
What are some single-player card video games like Hearthstone or Magic: The Gathering Arena without microtransactions?
I'm specifically interested in this one-on-one style, apart from roguelike/RPG deckbuilding games.
Those are fun too, but a different style.
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There are several single player Magic The Gathering games, but I think only the first one from 1997 gives you full deck building flexibility. The sequels just have a bundle of pre-builts to choose from.
The 1997 version has one-on-one Constructed and Booster Draft modes, in addition to a roguelike-RPG game mode.
It looks like its abandonware at this point, but someone claiming to be the OG dev commented on a Reddit discussion about it fairly recently: https://old.reddit.com/r/Shandalar/comments/1as2cg6/here_is_shandalar/
If you liked shandalar, you should check out forge like someone suggested in another comment on this thread: https://github.com/Card-Forge/forge
It's a free, fan made, FOSS game that implements even the newest cards coming out, and it has a shandalar inspired adventure mode for you to play, where you can defeat all color wizards, collect cards, play drafts against AI and such, it is a great time.
I'm having trouble installing Card Forge. There does not seem to be an executable anywhere in the download?
In the link you can go to releases, there is a installer that is a .jar file, should be called forge-installer.jar or something like that, it installs and in the folder there should be forge.exe and a forge-adventure.exe, the shandalar inspired adventure is the forge-adventure.exe
Thank you, that did it. I was under the impression that *.jar files are exclusively used in Linux, but obviously I was wrong.
Nah *.jar are java files. Think og minecraft.