CD Projekt Red has launched new single player title primarily based on the Gwent card recreation from The Witcher collection. Gwent: Rogue Mage is a roguelike deckbuilder, through which gamers enter a procedurally-generated map and combat their manner by a collection of monsters and managers utilizing a deck of card-based skills and characters deployed on the battlefield.

The recreation is about tons of of years earlier than the occasions of The Witcher 3, with gamers taking up the position of the mage Alzur as he makes an attempt to create the primary ever Witcher. However, the story is generally simply set-dressing, with recreation director Vladimir Tortsov telling IGN: “We do not treat this expansion as an official addition to The Witcher lore.”

The recreation is out there immediately on PC, iOS, and Android, and Tortsov says it’ll take round 30 hours for gamers to discover it totally, with every recreation loop working for as much as an hour. In phrases of gameplay, Tortsov compares the title to Slay the Spire, a roguelike deckbuilder through which gamers battle their manner by a tower of enemies.

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Rogue Mage is the newest try by Projekt Red to construct on the recognition of the Gwent card recreation, which was a minigame-turned-main-attraction (for a lot of gamers anyway) in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

The builders first launched Gwent: The Witcher Card Game as a free-to-play title for numerous platforms in 2018, earlier than shutting off support for consoles in 2020 in favor of cell and PC play. The unique recreation was multiplayer, however Projekt Red additionally launched a single participant Thronebreaker “expansion” (as a 30-hour RPG title it felt like way more than simply an enlargement) which was critically lauded however sold poorly.

Rogue Mage, then, is another experiment inside the Gwent format. It’s at the moment accessible on the Android Play Store, iOS App Store, Steam store and GOG retailer for PC, for $9.99. Meanwhile, Projekt Red remains to be engaged on the subsequent installment in the primary Witcher collection, for which particulars are so slim as to be virtually non-existent.