Loved the 1990s and the chance to get properly immersed in the card collectible scene? Well, you won’t have to find a time machine in order to enjoy those times once more, as Cardpocalypse has released on Xbox One, PS4 and Nintendo Switch.
Previously available on the Epic Games Store and iOS, Cardpocalypse now brings its card collecting madness to console, with Xbox One, PS4 and Nintendo Switch players all able to get in on the action, making friends, playing cards and twisting rules, all as you go about saving the world.
Cardpocalypse is all about building decks, evolving Champion cards, and making your own house rules, changing up the game as you see fit. Running as a solo player experience that has been hugely inspired by the 1990s and the card-collecting scenes that ruled the world, creating your very best card decks, and then using them to take down monsters is pretty much par for the course in this deck builder, with old-school RPG elements all thrown in for good measure.
Features of Cardpocalypse include:
- BE A CHAMPION: Build your decks around the ultra rare Champion cards you earn. Each Champion comes with unique abilities to tailor your deck around. First player to get their opponent’s Champion card’s health to zero wins the match.
- GO MEGA: Champion cards evolve to their MEGA forms when their health halves, doing more attack damage and gaining new powers.
- CHANGE THE GAME: The kids sometimes use house rules and who knows what the Mutants will change. Throughout the game you will choose the new rules and conditions as well as renaming your favorite cards and giving them upgrades using stickers. Create entirely new cards using the Mega Mutant Power Magazine. But be careful, these decisions are permanent.
- GET SCRAPPY: Adventure throughout the school to unravel the strange occurances at Dudsdale Elementary. Take on quests to earn cards, stickers, and candy which you can collect and trade with your classmates. Careful, there’s no backsies!
- YOU CAN’T COLLECT ‘EM ALL: In the end, your decks and rules will be unique to you. Stickers are rare, choices matter, and sometimes you’ll have to make a tough decision to get the best cards.
- THE 1990’s: Through its totally rad, choice-driven, interactive narrative, Cardpocalypse delivers the experience of being a 90’s kid. Boo-ya!
Wish to know more? We recently sat down with the Fred Mangan, the Art Director on Cardpocalypse in order to find out more about this fine card collector. What he had to say was hugely interesting too – check it out.
ONce you have given our interview with Fred a read, we highly advise you to make your sweet way to the Xbox Store, where you can find a download of Cardpocalypse on Xbox One ready and willing to be yours for just £20.99. If you’re quick, you’ll find a little launch discount too.
Let us know if you decide to pick it up, and keep a cool eye out for our full review of Cardpocalypse on Xbox One too. It’s coming real soon.
Edit: And that review of Cardpocalypse on Xbox One is now live. Check it out.
Game Description:
Make friends, play cards, twist the rules, become a Mega Mutant Power Pets master, and try to save the world in this single-player RPG about being a 90’s kid. On her first day at Dudsdale Elementary, 10-year old Jess accidentally gets everybody’s favorite collectible card game banned, forcing the kids to take their card battles underground. Troubles arise when mutants from the game invade the real world, and it’s up to Jess and friends to stop them. From the award-winning indie game studio, Gambrinous, creators of Guild of Dungeoneering, comes an RPG where battles are played with an epic collectible card game. Cardpocalypse takes you back to the 1990’s, a time when computers used floppy disks, and people read magazines for video game cheat codes. You will explore Dudsdale Elementary on a mission to build killer card decks in an effort to defeat the mutants. You will have to trade, earn, wager, change rules and permanently alter cards on your way to victory.
