The Witcher 4 is a way off, but Gwent: Rogue Mage plays all the greatest hits
Geralt is but a twinkle in an unscrupulous sorcerer’s eye at the moment when the new Witcher game begins. In Gwent: Rogue Mage, a moreish deckbuilding roguelike from CD Projekt Red, you play as Alzur, the infamous mage whose Frankensteinian experiments resulted in the very first mutated monster slayers.The Witcher 4
While combat is an abstract affair, playing out across the table as a card game, that’s not such a bad thing. Over the seven summers since The Witcher 3 came out, Gwent has grown into a deeply tactical and satisfying CCG. It has taken on a little of Hearthstone’s immediacy, filling the field with soldiers and spells that let you strike at cards directly, with a hefty thwack. Yet thankfully, Gwent has also retained its USP.
Since Rogue Mage’s fights take place across a single, extended round, Gwent is now less about knowing when to take a loss, and more about the slow-burn synergies you create between cards collected throughout the course of a run. At the end of every battle, you’ll be given the choice between gaining a new card or tossing an existing one – and as every CCG veteran knows, the latter is often the cleverer option when it comes to whittling and refining your core deck.
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