5 Reasons to Try Artifact if You’re Bored of Hearthstone & Gwent
Deeper Strategies
Although Gwent and a bevy of other digital TCGs offer strategic options such as board control elements, they pale in comparison to the amount of strategy present in Artifact. Since Valve’s card game is based on DOTA, it incorporates a lot of that game’s strategic depth into the card game mechanics, including a huge board with three lanes to maintain.
There are also heroes to manage, items cards that can be equipped, and two different win cons in the game, which all help blend together to make Artifact feel like a strategy game more than a card game at times. Matches also take longer than the traditional pickup and play nature of games like Hearthstone, and each match ends up being more tactical and grindy, keeping players on their toes.
While that may be a bit daunting for new players, many will appreciate the layers of depth present in the game, and it’s a nice change for a game to embrace its complexity rather than mercilessly trying to streamline it.
