Aug 292018
Last year, CD Projekt Red announced that the Gwent single-player campaign would be called Thronebreaker and tell a story about Queen Meve.
Now, they’ve announced that it will be a standalone game called Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales.
They spoke about the game during a financial results presentation, and a user on Reddit compiled the details they gave about Thronebreaker.
Most interesting to me is that while it uses Gwent to determine outcomes, they’re describing it as an RPG rather than a card game. It will feature 30+ hours of gameplay, and if the original Thronebreaker screenshots still apply, it looks like it will have dialogue choices and an isometric viewpoint outside of Gwent battles.
So it’s an RPG spin-off of a card game spin-off of an RPG.
I’m intrigued by this. I still need to play The Witcher 3, and I’ll admit I was overwhelmed by the standalone Gwent when I tried to get into it, but if this is an RPG, I want to know more about it.
My experience with card-based RPGs has been mixed, since I enjoyed Baten Kaitos but on the other hand never want to play Chain of Memories again. Before this comes out, I should probably give Gwent another try.
…or play The Witcher 2 and 3, like I planned to do this year.
How do you feel about Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales?
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