Any good, active TGC/CCGs (that don't look/play like a Hearthstone clone)?

[Osamaru]

I LOVED Infinity Wards and HEX: Shards of Fate.
They where Great games, while while they weren't TOTALLY unique, each brought someone interesting and new ideas to their respective "Styles".
Especially HEX, which could be called a MTG clone, but make amazing used of its digital format and did things MTG could never do.

Unfortunately, due to poor management, bad business decisions, and horrible marketing, both of these games are pretty much dead in the water atm. HEX MIGHT make a comeback, but that would take some serious restructuring.

THAT BEING SAID, I'm in the Market for a new TCG/CCG game that's active and growing. preferably one that ISN'T just at Hearthstone Clone (or at the very least, really tries to mix up the formula and go its own direction, like HEX did.)

Can anyone recommend me anything?

[Morphic]

Prismata(kinda, it's like trying to blend an RTS with a TCG)

Eternal (trying to blend MTG and Hearthstone)

Could also try Valve's new CCG based off of DotA. That's about the only ones I really know that are active and growing. The couple of other CCGs that were legit different either died or were abandoned.

[Osamaru]

Originally posted by Morphic:

Prismata(kinda, it's like trying to blend an RTS with a TCG)

Eternal (trying to blend MTG and Hearthstone)

Could also try Valve's new CCG based off of DotA. That's about the only ones I really know that are active and growing. The couple of other CCGs that were legit different either died or were abandoned.

Eternal Looks a lot like Hearthstone, what's it do diffrent?

[BossGalaga]

I love Smash-Up. I don't know how great its playerbase is on Steam/PC but I love playing the physical game with my kids.

We also love playing King of Tokyo too.

Also, instead of playing one card game, you could be playing countless.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/286160/Tabletop_Simulator/

[Morphic]

Originally posted by Torigoma:

Eternal Looks a lot like Hearthstone, what's it do diffrent?

Well there is a Mana system similar to MTG, e.g. you need 4 Green and 3 Red to summon X. So you can run into "Mana Flood" or create "Mana Blitz" decks to get high end creatures out early, you can also use cards that destroy/remove your opponent's Mana... basically the same kind of shenanigans MTG has.

There's also no "Hero abilities" that Hearthstone has, instead it is entirely Equip card based. E.g. you can give your Hero a Sword, thus letting them attack like a creature.(it can still be damaged/busted and creatures still retaliate the Hero) Also "face hugging" from Hearthstone isn't really a thing.(at least it wasn't very viable when I played)

IMO, Eternal plays more like MTG than it does Hearthstone. However it is similar to Hearthstone in a lot of ways. I found it more enjoyable than Hearthstone but eventually dropped it when it came to Steam since I felt a lot of things were imbalanced.

Like I said, that's one of the few active/growing TCGs I know of that isn't an outright Hearthstone clone and tries to be a bit different than the norm.(IMO, a lot of Eternal's difference stem from various card abilities)

[pasa]

If you liked Hex, Eternal is better. And it kept to remain generous.