With Hearthstone, Blizzard Entertainment merges the lore of the Warcraft universe to create a fun, fast-paced, strategy card game. The game shares an obvious similarity to the rest of Blizzard’s collection in the sense that is also extremely addicting. The accessibility of this game is the result of the simplified design, especially when compared to the overwhelming development of Magic the Gather...
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Ubisoft’s free-to-play dungeon crawler, The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot, takes an interesting approach to the genre as it furthers regular hack and slash gameplay with tower defence elements. This game features a player developed world, where a hero is used to raid castles while defences can be researched and advanced. The developers shed some humour on the genre through the promotion of a cartoo...
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Full Bore: The First Dig, the first development of a two part saga, is an impressive development for Whole Hog games. In this puzzle-platformer, the player assumes control of a boar named Fredrick (or by alternative choice: Hildi, a sow) who is forced to work for Gullinbursti’s Full Bore Mining Company after being discovered in his empty vault. The use of digging, one of the games central mechan...
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Prime World Community Page In the lore of Prime World, Dokht Imperium and the Keepers of Adornia fight to control a powerful energy substance called Prime. The player is thrown in the midst of this war and is forced to pick a side where they settle and build a town, craft skills (talents), and train heroes to participate in a continuum of battles. Nival’s Prime World combines two dangerously addi...
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MechWarrior Online, Piranha Games’ free-to-play edition to the long running franchise, was officially released on September 17th, 2013. The game allows the player to customize their very own BattleMech, a massive combat vehicle resembling a humanoid form, which they competitively pilot in one of two game modes: assault or conquest. For new players, the strategic intricacies of the game are nearly...
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Smite Community Page Smite is Hi-Rez Studios’ free-to-play foray into the Multiplayer Online Battle Arena genre. The player subsumes the role of a mythological deity, each possessing their own set of abilities which are used to fight enemies, help teammates and kill minions. Conquest, the primary game mode, implements a 5v5 format where each team’s main objective is to destroy the enemy team’s t...
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