Mystic Vale

This digital release is fantastic! Really love how quick this has made the experience, and the small animations added bring charm to this game. Automating the harvest phase really is amazing. The AI is also quite good without feeling like they’re cheating. Going to buy all the expansions and hope they add more!

Love it! So glad I purchased this. Translates the spectacular card game perfectly. I would recommend it to any fan of light-to-medium card games like Magic: The Gathering, Hearthstone, or similar games. I have two small complaints: 1. The writing is a bit small on my iPhone Pro Max. 2. On ONE level above Easy the AI tends to swoop in and score ten or fifteen points on its last round for the win a LOT. But maybe I just need to git gud.

This is a very good and accurate representation of the board game. It plays quickly and is fun.

Add more expansions. Love this game

App seems to work well , but as soon as we bounce out of an online game with friends, the game is lost with no way to get it back Who wants to sit and play for 45 minutes straight just to finish the game? With asynch this would be 5 stars

Absolutely love it. Great tutorials. Beautiful, clean detailed design. Elegant playing interface. Makes me want to buy the real card decks, but I know I would never have anyone to play with. Can’t wait for more expansion packs.❤️

This game is a lot of fun when it works correctly. However, as I and my wife have been adding expansion packs, it seems more and more bugs are present in the game. Had to restart several times, and sometimes vale cards do not work properly. Would love to see an update with bugs fixed. If working properly, this is easily a five star game. Lots of fun!

Would be great if they updated for play on Apple TV as well as iPhone/ipad. Seems unfair to need a pc or Nintendo switch to play on your television but that’s just because I want my cake and to eat it too when I can’t play my physical copy

I love how this game rewards deep thinking about deck-building strategy and tactics. It’s kind of like Magic: The Gathering, but non-violent and eco-conscious: instead of playing as sorcerers attacking each other, you play as clans of druids healing a cursed land. It’s also very different from Magic: The Gathering. Mystic Vale is competitive solitaire. You and your opponents draw from common decks of cards and you compete to get the most points, but otherwise you’re doing your own thing. Also, everyone starts each game with identical decks. It’s not about owning the best cards. You build your deck up during the game, then start fresh next time. Part of the fun is adding cool cards (e.g., Peacekeeper Druid, Moon Wolf) to your deck and combining them to enhance your deck’s power. Part of the fun is doing that strategically: it’s about which cards you combine and how your deck functions as a whole, not just about taking the best cards you can afford this turn. Then there’s an extra layer of depth about the tactical decision each turn of how much to push more cards into your “field” (i.e., hand). If all goes well, you get more mana to spend this turn. If you push too much “decay” into your hand, you “spoil” and lose your turn. Here’s where it pays to keep close track of what’s in your deck and your discard pile so as to calculate the risk and reward of pushing. I read a review that said the app doesn’t follow the rules about decay and its opposite, “growth.” At first I thought so too, but then I realized that I was just confused by how the app displayed the counts of decay and growth. Once I learned to understand those displays that do some of the card-counting work for you, and to keep proper track of the amount of decay in my deck, I became expert at calculating the odds of pushing and took my game to the next level. The AI opponents have hard and easy levels, and you can learn a lot by watching the AI play at a hard level. You just have to change a setting in the app so that the current player’s hand is displayed at all times. Except for being sometimes confusing (those counts of decay and growth, and the timing of points scored by certain cards), the app is very well-done, with beautiful artwork, enjoyable music, and smooth gameplay. Mystic Vale is one of my favorite games ever!

The audio doesn’t work when I’m playing. I have all settings enabling it and still nothing. I want to hear it….