Cards and board
Card battler
Games where you play cards from a deck you build or collect to fight an opponent or work through a run.
Also called: card game, ccg, collectible card game, deck builder, deckbuilder, tcg
What defines it
- A deck made from cards you own.
- Cards have costs and effects; you decide the order you play them.
- Player-versus-player matches, or solo runs against the game.
- New cards come from play, packs or rewards.
Card battlers range from collectible card games, where deck choice matters most, to deck builders, where you assemble the deck as you play.
Collecting is a big part of the appeal, so card acquisition is also where the business model shows up most clearly.
Well-known card battler games
Curated by hand. Games in the Gamedexy library come first, with their screens and flows; the rest follow A to Z. This is not a ranking and says nothing about sales or player counts.
- Clash Royale
- HearthstoneGoogle Play listing
- Legends of RuneterraGoogle Play listing
- MARVEL SNAPGoogle Play listing
- Pokémon TCG PocketGoogle Play listing
- Slay the SpireGoogle Play listing
