Diving more deeply into the game, it got more depth with the addition of magic cards and sidekicks. The first battles were interesting, the poker-like combos felt novel. Overall, it's a neat little game, even if it doesn't quite reach its potential, and I applaud the developers for trying something different.Īs a avid player of Match-3 games, and appreciator of the Puzzle Quest saga, I convinced myself to give Runespell: Overture a shot, intrigued by the fact you play with a standard deck of cards instead of coloured gems. The epic score almost seems like overkill for this game, but it's quite good. The artwork in the game does look really nice. The dialog is painfully bad, and the story and quests are just an excuse to run you around the map fighting things. The card game is wrapped in an RPG story, which isn't particularly interesting. While not as deep as either poker, or a typical trading card game, I still found it to be oddly addictive and fun. Also, you can play cards from your sideboard, which have various effects such as dealing damage, blocking damage, or giving you extra actions on the current turn. The better the hand, the more damage the attack deals. You create poker hands from a solitaire style board, which can be used as attacks against enemies. In each fight, you face the AI opponent in a card game where the goal is to take the other player's health to 0.

The core gameplay of Runespell is essentially a weird combination of poker solitaire and a trading card game.

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