Eternal Card Game

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’ve been playing this game for almost 3 years now and I enjoy it. I don’t put too much into the story’s or puzzles this game has to offer and I’m not much of an online player though when I do it seems ok. I just really really like the single player gauntlets, the card decks you can buy, and modifying and making those decks more awesome or adjusted to my play style. Not sure if the creators or developers look on these reviews to see people’s inputs and I for one rarely write a review so me writing this has made me come to my limits. In the gauntlets I feel that there are a few ai opponents that are way out of balance, some I feel have already had some adjustments because they use to be impossible and now are incredibly hard; such as “guardians of the bastion” 1 out of 10 times I face them I lose, pretty bad odds but I feel the challenge and enjoy it sometimes. There are a few that I feel are pointless, if I come across the themed deck for the man eating plants or argenport shootout. In the 3 years I’ve played I have never beat them, I’ve come to understand that if I even see them I don’t even try because they are way out of balance. Every now and then I think I get a great deck and come across them but they make short work of me with no effort. There are others as well but I can only think of these two and argenport shootout shows up more than the others. 100% of the time they win, please fix them or remove them. I get you don’t want people winning all the time but if I wanted free cards I would do the one casual game a day and I don’t care for that, I’m big into the gauntlet and I typically attempt to win it once a day. My average on winning a whole gauntlet one time took me 4 months of trying every day. It’s been better now that I have more cards but now that I look back at that it is frustrating.

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!

MTG and Hearthstone had a baby. It’s this. You can spend money or grind. But the grind is so fun you’ll want to collect and spend money. Or not if you’re broke and that’s okay. You’ll win still.