Remember in the Witcher 3 when you could avoid important decisions with a round of Gwent?

Well now you can do that IRL

"PLEASE MY DAUGHTER WAS KIDNAPPED WEEKS AGO HELP ME!!"

- "How about a round of Gwent?""

Dunno that I'm gonna buy anything, but I sure wouldn't mind a few rounds of Gwent.

"Where's my wife and daughter,witcher?"
"Let's play Gwent."
"Sure,why not?"

Gwent is a card game but you can't compare it with any other cardgame out there, like Hearthstone, Legends of Runeterra or Magic. It's very unique in gameplay and has almost nothing in commen with the Witcher 3 Gwent you can play with the ingame NPCs.

If you play Gwent, it feels very tactical and not luck based at all compared to the others. I am a big fan of card games and I played almost every game of this genre. Nothing kept me playing it like Gwent does, even after years. This game is very well made. The grafics and the animated cards espcally, but even the gameplay is very balanced und fluid.
If you already played few online card games, you probably know you have to pay alot of money to get good decks, but not here. In Gwent you can easly craft your first few good decks after couple of weeks playing, without ripping of your whole wallet.

I already loved playing Gwent with the Witcher 3 NPCs, even tho this version was very crappy. CD Project Red took this idea out of the game and made a whole new standalone version. I played it since release in March 2017, and since then they made a ton of changes and reworked the whole game multiple times. I never expirienced a developer who put so much love and work into a online card game after release and I am a bit sad that this Game is so unbelievable underrated.

This is the only game i feel like I could play it until the last day of my life. I hope it's community keeps growing and the devs keep it alive <3


//I already got 448 hours ingame time on GOG Galaxy, I just recently started playing it on steam

Ok, just one more game ...

Very F2P friendly, incredible art/sound design, updated and improved every month, able to play across PC and mobile. Comfortably the best card game on the market. New expansion coming in the next month or two. :D
Can be slightly overwhelming when starting as a beginner, but stick with it and it will very soon be worth it.

I have +2200 hours of Gwent on GOG and over 300 confirmed kills (?).
I play Gwent since the open beta and I consider myself a "semi professional" player (I play tournaments and Pro Rank since forever and doing top 500 lately, maybe 200 if I push hard)

Important disclaimer to start:
This game is not the Gwent of Witcher 3, its massively more deep and complex, and better of course. Only thing they have in common is you play for points and best of 3 rounds.



Gwent is objectively the card game in which the RNG matters less, and arguably, skill matters most. It is all about CONSISTENCY.

Why is this? Not only because cards themselves have effects that are not random in their majority, but because of how deck sizes and draws work:

- Your deck has 25 Cards
- You draw 10 at the beginning of the game, with 2 or 3 mulligans.
- On round 2, you draw 3 more, and have 2 more mulligans
- On Round 3, you draw 3 more, and have 2 more mulligans.

So, I won't do all the math but as you can see, you have a very high chance of getting the cards you want or at least the ones you need to execute your gameplay. This is a HUGE difference from other card games in which your deck is huge and you are drawing 1 by 1 hoping to get what you want (thus, rng of the draw affecting a lot more because of this)

The other thing about the skill intensiveness Gwent has, is that there is no mana, so you can play ANY card at ANY given turn. This opens you to A LOT of possibilities, which makes the game harder to master IMO and a lot more harder to analyze and play correctly or optimally.

This is amazing if you are looking to smash your brain into the game and feel excited about playing WELL and winning by 1 point (that happens A LOT), BUT, can be a bit overwhelming also, making it a game that doesn't shine THAT much on casual play and that can get you brain-tired easier than other games in which you are just stomping the mana curve at the beginning.


The art and the universe, well, it's the Witcher, if you like dark stuff you will love it, if you want some funny and light hearted stuff, you won't like it. I find it very appealing personally, but sometimes its too dark and can drag you down a little bit. Anyway it's awesome for the most part, and also very mature.


Gwent is the most generous digital card game ever. Period. You can analyze the numbers and you will see it.
Even LoR being generous, Gwent just goes over the top with it. You will have a Tier 1 deck in no time playing this game without paying, I can guarantee it.


Well this is the roughest spot of Gwent. While CDPR is a great company that made great games, for Gwent it is lacking a bit. I mean, they hear the community for sure and deliver some balances here and there to fix things, but the patches are always messy (with bugs), some balance decisions are very questionable (but they later fix them), but for the most part, aside of some specific things, the game is always enjoyable and well balanced.


Competitively speaking as an Esport, the circuit is nice, but can be improved. There are qualifiers every month in which the top 64 of the pro ladder compete for places on Gwent Open, an event in Poland that they pay your travel to and can win some nice money. Obviously reaching there is VERY HARD but it can be made, and grind is not the only thing that matters.

Aside from this official circuit, there are plenty of tournaments organized by the community, in which sadly I would like CDPR to get involved more (so we can have money prizes) but that still doesn't happen. Anyway they are fun, the people is great, there are streaming coverage, and nice ingame prizes.


Community is nice, aside from the same trolls as all games has on reddit and such, for tournaments all the big teams are very nice and open, there are many videos with information and stuff to help new players, and many of tournaments iniatives made by the community (on english and even on spanish too)

For real, on Gwent, SKILL matters, and don't take it from the AD, take it from me that I've been playing now for 3 years competitively.

https://www.playgwent.com/invite-a-friend/VN7IQY9ABA

Pretty cards, brains and Witcher universe. Too bad it has stalled :/

50% of the time, this game is fun. The other 50% is depression.