Steamforged Games Dark Souls The Card Game: Core Game

While I've never played the Dark Souls video games or board game, I love the gothic artwork and story premise, so purchased this card game. I have played Bloodborne Board Game and was familiar with some of this games concepts regarding resting at the Bonfire in order to secure earned goods from winning battles. The high points of this game are the variety of battles, upgrading your deck by purchasing higher quality stamina cards, and facing the big bosses who take awhile to kill. I played a two player game which last about 60 minutes, and a 4 player game which lasted about 90 minutes. This game is fun and goes by quickly. Alot of creative thought went into making these big bosses unique and difficult to defeat. I really like the game, think it's definitely worth the price paid, and would love to buy an expansion if I can find them at reasonable prices. Con: My only con to the game was that the backs of the cards are not easier to separate and recognize, so I was confused when learning the game. This could have easily been fixed by adding different colors to separate Treasure cards from Transposed Treasure Cards, Levels I, II, III Enemy Cards and Player Decks. If you're unfamiliar with how this game looks and works, just pay attention closely to subtle icon differences on the back of cards, and of the little blue dots beside the treasure icon on front of the Transposed Treasure Cards.

Amazing game for any group looking to challenge the dark souls game in a whole new fun way. Game was in perfect condition on arrival.

Takes some time to learn the rules but YouTube tutorials were really helpful. Lots of tension and tons of fun! Dark souls enthusiast approved.

As a Soulsborne (Dark Souls/Bloodborne) fanatic, and avid player of tabletop games, I had to pick this up. It arrived on time, undamaged. I do have to condemn the packaging of the game, though. The packaging could be better, for the price. The issue I had with the Board Game (board game, not this card game) was that it had a lot of various kinds of loose tokens (and I mean, many, many token types), and all they gave you to hold them was a single ziploc baggie, which is a joke for the MSRP of $129.99. It would be annoying to dig through a tiny bag for a single token each time you needed it. Let me give an example. Bloodborne: The Card Game was only MSRP $39.99, but had slots for all cards and tokens that fit perfectly. This card game does not follow that, once again, they only provided you a ziploc baggie for all the tokens. The cards don't have plastic slots to 'lock into place', unlike the Bloodborne card game, but rather crudely cut sections of cardboard, that at time, are hard to get cards out of. Considering this was a complaint people had with the board game, you would think that the creators would fix it for their card game. (Dark Souls: The Board Game's creators are the same as Dark Souls: The Card Game) The game itself is fairly easy to learn, although setup and put-away time is pretty long, but the gameplay itself is fun, and filled with death, tears, and despair, just like dark souls. The art on the cards is pretty nice, although most of the items are icons from the game itself, or carried over from the Board Game. It's not very enjoyable for solo play, and I say that as someone who plays Dungeons and Dragons solo all the time. I play with a friend over skype, using a webcam to video-chat the game table. When playing with others, it's significantly more fun, and can get a lot more chaotic. The more players, the more complex and varying the gameplay can be, so with just one player, it's pretty boring and gets stale quickly. Combat is usually players scrambling into place for attacking and defending, and when a boss encounter comes up, if the players want to survive, they have to remember the boss's attack patterns (the bosses repeat the same set of attacks). Regular mobs can kill the entire party as well, if they're not careful enough, but are generally easier to get into position to counter. But that's pretty much Dark Souls, so I enjoy that mechanic very much. The box itself is nice and solid, along with the boards, sturdy and glossy, and let me tell you, it looks amazing on my game shelf. The cards and rulebook had a really nice new book smell, which is always nice. tl;dr- Overall, this was definitely worth the price, the gameplay is fun with multiple people. The inner packaging is poor, but isn't a major issue.

My order came on time and was in perfect condition. Really fun and easy to understand game, about 45-60 of play time excluding set up. It gives the feeling of tension and desperation of Souls games but in card form. If you like deck builders I recommend this game.

Bought the Dark Souls Card Game 2 weeks ago and my husband and I immediately had to order both expansion packs. I don't play the Dark Souls video games so this is a great game for me to enjoy something that my husband loves. Highly recommend to wives.

The book it comes with is hard to follow past the board set-up. We needed a youtube video to learn how to play the game. Takes forever to set up and learn but once you do it's very fun, and it's made very well!

compre el juego de cartas porque soy fan de los videojuegos del mismo nombre y puedo decir que el juego de cartas respeta muy bien la esencia del videojuego, el juego al venir en su totalidad en ingles puede parecer desafiante pero la verdad es que con un ingles básico y el traductor para las palabras difíciles hasta un niño podría entenderlo, y si no es el caso hay varios tutoriales en YouTube asi que por ese lado no hay pierde, lo jugué un par de veces con familiares que no tienen ni idea del videojuego y es divertido tanto para los que no conocen el videojuego como para los mas fans e incluso se presta para inventar algunas reglas caseras y hacerlo mas accesible, los materiales son excelentes, las ilustraciones hermosas y el gameplay variado, el juego esta basado mas en el contenido de Dark souls 3 y tiene de jefes finales a "Vordt del Valle Boreal", "Pontífice Sulyvahn", "Supremo Señor Wolnir" y a "Los Vigilantes del Abismo" el producto llego en excelente estado y a los dos días de que lo pedí

Muy buen juego, ideal para los amantes de la saga. Tiene un buen modo solitario, muy entretenido y con un set up rápido de montar. Las cartas son de buena calidad aunque recomiendo enfundarlas (tamaño estándar), aunque sí digo que si te haces con el juego base y las dos expansiones tendrás más de 800 cartas.

Ich bin äußerst Zufrieden. Als Dark Souls-Fan sehr schön zu erleben. Lässt such super auch Solo spielen und macht so tatsächlich viel Spaß. Nach erster Testrunde mit Freunden (keinerlei Kenntnisse über Dark Souls) hatten auch sie jede Menge Freude und Spaß. Der Inhalt ist wirklich super, man kann sich daran erstmal eine Weile austoben, ergänzend gibt es auch zwei Addons die von allem (Charaktere, Ausrüstung, Bosse jnd Gegner) mehr hinzufügen und auch neue Spielmechaniken mit sich bringen. Die Karten an sich sind ganz in Ordnung, empfehle aber diese in Hüllen zu stecken. Grund : Man mischt die Karten sehr oft, zählt sie durch und darum nutzen sie sich doch relativ schnell ab an den Kanten Das Spiel an sich hat einen Soulstypischen hohen Schwierigkeitsgrad ohne jedoch frustig zu werden.

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