Eternal Card Game

Great card game thousands of different cards that offer a lot of different strategies. Decent amount of cards can be gotten by just playing over time, don’t need to pay.

If you’re like me and quit Magic due to $$$ this is the game for you.

This is an eminently f2p game. I have spent some money over the years but I’ve felt it worthy because the game is of great quality. The card pool is deep. The strategies are subtle and varied. The AI is annoyingly good, in a good way. It’s possible to grind out packs all day. The player base is pretty advanced as far as competition goes. All in all, I really like this game.

I used to play this game a massive amount, and originally it felt like a true skill game where deck building felt like the main point of the game. Unfortunately after returning it just feels like a massive pay to win, with cards being uncraftable unless you buy certain expansions, and in game currency coming by slowly to purchase said expansions. Also, the power requirements in a deck being forced to have 1/3rd power feels extremely restrictive, resulting in multiple turns where your draws are extremely dead considering that your opening hand usually can cover the influence requirements your deck can run. If asked when I originally played this game, I would have recommended it, but with the current state of the game I can not in good faith recommend it to new or returning players, unless they feel like sinking money into a game that on the bare surface is a “free to play”

Everything depends on card draw. Either you draw too many “sigils” (aka mana) and not enough functional cards, or you draw no sigils and thus cant play any cards. It is so frustrating and dumb. Also the alleged game controller support doesn’t work. And I tried reaching out to the developers about this and received no response whatsoever. Clearly they don’t care whether or not their game works as advertised.

I played magic for a long time in this game was a lot more fun. However, when you have to have 35 to 40 out of 75 cards, all of them are energy just to get two of them to eventually show up in a single draw 20 rounds in a row then there’s something broken in the game. If I could buy these cards and play them in the real world, that would be awesome But their math is broken.

Pay to win

With gaming router (no issues with online access) and new iOS devices, this game froze during intro demo - not having internet access…. Definitely a server issue…. Loaded and deleted… too bad…

I am a big fan of Dire Wolf, and a lot of my money has been spent on their products. I’ve even bought all three Clank! versions (if you are unfamiliar with DW’s board games, look them up, they’re amazing!). I bought the Root app, which is widely considered the epitome of physical to digital conversions. And now I’ve downloaded Eternal… but have not paid a dime for it! I’ll no doubt end up buying a campaign at some point, which from what I gather will set me back $10, using real life dollars to purchase in-game currency (gems) to spend in their store. But I’m currently more than half way to earning enough gold within the game as an alternate way of buying a campaign, just from battling for free. I don’t love fighting real humans for some reason, though I have more wins than losses currently, and mostly play the “Gauntlet” - the series of increasingly difficult matches - in an attempt to earn larger and greater prizes. I’d say that the Gauntlet does reveal some of the frustrations common to this sort of online collectible card game, as towards the end, the AI uses not just “Legendary” cards, which from my calculations I would have to spend $29 to reliably obtain, but whole mechanisms that are as yet unavailable to me. But, I do believe that’s what your signing up for when Gauntlet-ing. So far other human players haven’t unleashed unbalanced hurt upon me, which I am thankful for. Regardless, I have to give this 5 stars because of all the enjoyment I’ve gotten, free of charge. Thank you Dire Wolf yet again for all the good times.

Eternal is a godsend. I’ve been a player since beta, and the game brings excellent design, storylines, and strategy that have kept me coming back for 6 years. There are a multitude of formats that make it easy for experienced and new players. I played magic the gathering for years, and strongly prefer eternal, which is far more accessible and fun to play. As a parent, it’s also easy to play a quick game if I don’t have much time. A++++ thanks to the DWD team!