Faeria

 PlayStation 4
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  1. Lord_Khey
    Feb 16, 2022
    7
    I'm not an obsessive CCG person - never played Magic/Yu-Gi-Oh/etc. But I have enjoyed the couple of CCG games I've played, including this one. My personal interest wanes in building/re-building the decks, but I think that's where a lot of fans really dive in. I just like to build a couple and ride with them, tweaking on occasion.

    Faeria has 5 different kinds of cards (Forest,    I'm not an obsessive CCG person - never played Magic/Yu-Gi-Oh/etc. But I have enjoyed the couple of CCG games I've played, including this one. My personal interest wanes in building/re-building the decks, but I think that's where a lot of fans really dive in. I just like to build a couple and ride with them, tweaking on occasion.

    Faeria has 5 different kinds of cards (Forest, Mountain, Water, Desert, and "neutral"). You create a deck of 30 cards that mix and match them based on speed, potency, and the various powers each one has. The game steers you toward a "starter" deck for each of the four 'elements,' working in a few of the neutral cards, then you try them out against various AI opponents, who, themselves, favor one of the aforementioned elements.

    The thing that makes this game so interesting is that there's a hexagonal, 31-unit board where you place a piece or two of "land" every turn. And you can choose to put down two "prairie" (or neutral) squares, or one "elemental" land. Some of your cards are only allowed to be played once a certain number of a certain type of land has been placed. Each turn, you gain "Faeria," which is like 'mana' in many games, and you need so much of it to play certain cards. You can also gain Faeria at the start of each turn if one of your cards (which you can move about the board a la chess) is posted by one of the Faeria "wells." Use all of these tools to plan your strategy and attack the other player's avatar (called a "god" here) and get their hit points to zero.

    There are several different modes - vs. AI, vs. online competition, and even a puzzle mode, where you're presented with a pre-set board, and you must use the available pieces already on the board, cards in your hand, and Faeria in your reserve to defeat the enemy god in one turn only.

    Lately, I've been having trouble loading this game on the PS4. It seems to take 4 tries, giving me "log-in error" messages. Fortunately, it still doesn't take too long to get in, but it's still irritating when sometimes all I want to do is log in to get my daily reward and maybe craft a few cards I don't have yet. The Faeria web forum has not been helpful so far.

    If I'm reasonably impressed by this game as a non-CCG person, I think anyone who IS, will get months of enjoyment out of this, if not years.    … Expand

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  1. PlayStation Country
    Nov 16, 2020
    80
    Faeria is a great CCG battler in the grand tradition of Magic and Hearthstone, and just like those it's dependent on how many hours you plough into it in terms of what it gives back. Make no mistake, Faeria wants to be the reason you turn on your PS4. Perhaps the timing of its release is the little off with the imminent PS5 release, but it's no less addictive. We expect we'll continue to dip in regardless.
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