Shardbound Review

Shardbound is a free-to-play Tactical Collectible Card Game developed and published by Spiritwalk Games. You can think of it as a crossover between Hearthstone and XCOM, something like Duelyst. Equipped with beautiful graphics and innovative mechanics, Shardbound is a masterpiece of its kind, that has unfortunately never found its rightful audience.

What you have to do is choose one of the game’s various classes, create your deck and get into battle. There are units that are affected by the map’s visibility, environmental obstacles and so on, which makes Shardbound even more interesting. Cards have unique abilities and buffs which can be used along with more cards in the expense of mana, as with any TCG.

Each playable character has its own beautiful model, whose outlines indicate whether they can be moved or attack each turn. Even with most of 3d models, you can still read the descriptions of each characters, which makes everything much easier for the player to get into.

Matching time is fairly short. Each match is short because there is only 30 cards per person, but that makes decking more fun and meaningful. What you can say about Shardbound is that it’s easy to learn but hard to master as good tactical formation and strong decks and decisions sure make the difference.

By the time this short review is written, Shardbound is set to be discontinued, as the developers say. If this is to happen eventually then you have to try it at least once. It would be only fair to play that this game should be an example of balanced and intriguing gameplay for trading card game developers out there and we hope that maybe a backer for the project will finally arrive so that Shardbound can continue be present.