Hearthstone

Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft

Blizzard is a well-known game developer. Most of older players do remember their series of Warcraft, one the the first massively played strategy games for PC. They have also developed one of the most successful MMORPG games “World of Warcraft“.

Company didn’t get much into mobile games platform – till now. Meet new candidate for epic multi-platform game.

Overall gameplay

Game is simple, fun, and addictive. Using already proven game system, like in Magic: The Gathering, Blizzard brings cards system into exciting gaming world. There are no complicated rules or weird “enrage” systems, like other similar games are suffering, while the game itself is still challenging. Every player can gather great rare cards quite quickly, and using rank matching algorythm you will always end up playing with “Worthy Opponent”.

Making good deck combinations, and picking up suitable starting cards is crucial here. Most advanced players can get golden heros, specific card backs – which makes every player quite unique.

We rank Overall gameplay as 9 out of 10.

Freemium Eligibility criteria

It looks like game suffers same problems like all other Freemium games do – it is possible to get into higher rank by combining great cards (which appereantly can be bought using “Arcane Dust”), and your intellect. While of course, you can try to search for rare cards from “Card Packs” – however, it will take ages to find that required one.

Game tries to ease searching process by giving daily quests, to get you that required “gold” as fast as possible – but you would have to be quite addicted and spend bigger amount of your free time to get enough required. And it becomes quite difficult to win matches in higher ranks, and – to fulfill quests.

We rank Eligibility criteria 8 out of 10.

Actual cost

Game is absolutely playable and interesting without spending real money. That is, you can be successful just by using daily quests, winning matches or participating in Arena.

We rank Actual cost 10 out of 10.

Conclusion

It is one of the best games we saw, which are aiming to “Freemium” niche. It’s definately worth playing, and maybe some investment of your time and money too.

Overall rating: 9 out of 10.
Recommended for: everybody.

You can play this game on a PC, and it is being rolled out to iTunes at the moment.

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