Recently Hearthstone , The most popular game about throwing virtual cards in the world was celebrated by setting a record of seventy million users. Then it was announced the beginning of the year of the mammoth, which poured a new life in Hearthstone, seasoned with many useful innovations.

Simultaneously in the camp of card fun Gwent: The Witcher Card Game No less important events occurred: its developers were connected to the fun of console players, began open beta testing and held a world tournament with solid prize.

This year, an addition was released for Hearthstone "Expedition to UN’Goro", adding one hundred and thirty -five new cards. By the end of the year, two more large sets will appear.

The main prize of this tournament was won by the famous German e -sportsman Edrian “LifeCoach” Koy – a man uniting Gwint and Hearthsthstone. In the past, LifeCoach professionally played poker and put together a condition to switch to video games. More precisely, on Hearthstone. But in February 2017, Edrian publicly stated that he was disappointed with the development course of KKI from Blizzard , so goes to Gwent.

Edrian Koy is not the only example of such a transition. So, Gwint began professionally play Trump and Noxious, the Hearthstone streamers with world names, and the company was compiled by Peter PPD Dager, one of the most titled experts in Dota 2 In the entire history of discipline.

HS looks nice and comfortable: fashionable shirts, spectacular design maps, animated events. Complete the picture interactive objects responding to pressing.

Now many have already become clear to many that in CD Projekt Red created a serious competitor for the collectible card game from Blizzard. And if last year on E3 2016 few people believed in the enormous potential of the project, then by mid -2017 Gwent became the power to be considered.

The rivalry between the two games is gradually heating up – largely thanks to the aggressive policy of the authors of GWent, who are not embarrassed to pick up a competitor in social media. For Hearthstone as a mammoth monopolist, these bites go without a trace, but the players monitor and remember. However, the youthful audacity of the Poles is not the only thing they attract the attention of the cardigors.

This is what Gwent looks like in a great role -playing game The Witcher 3. Since then, the game has come a long way.

The authors of GWent firmly understand that their main trump card is the trilogy of The Witcher and the Witcher's Book Universe, rich in colorful characters no less than the world of Azerot. For this reason, the Poles seem to exploit the bottomless well, adding purely book heroes (Milva, Kagyr, Bonart) and seasoning them with characters from apocryphal games, like Viking Vabjorn, who debuted in The Witcher: Battle Arena. Now this Moba is closed, but the authors of Gwent have found that from there you can benefit from the benefit.

When comparing Hearthstone with Gwint, we note that the latter is in a much more sparing way as a player’s credit card, allowing you to easily earn barrels with cards – a local analogue of boosters. The legendary “gold” cards fall out more often, and in general there is a feeling that CD Projekt wants to please not only fans of the “witcher”, but also a wider audience. The Witcher Card Game subtitle is an important tool for attracting attention, but not the only Selling Point.

Game field: six rows, weather effects, indicators of the force of maps and armor of individual cards that do not go to a common piggy bank. The head is dizzy from the nuances – there are too many conditions and formulas.

In both card games, the author of these lines spent dozens, and maybe hundreds of hours. Gwint loses HS in the main – simplicity, intuitiveness and understandability of the gameplay. Learning to play Hearthstone is much easier than in Gwent, so it is the Blizzard project that is trying to copy everyone who sits out to make “Successful Hit Card”.

The creators of Gvint overdid it with the number of advanced gaming mechanics – each player has three rows to set cards, you need to win in two rounds of three, at an unexpected moment unpleasant weather spells rumble, and the cards can change the row with their properties and values. You can't even remember everything! As if in contrast to this, HS offers one row for each player and the so -called “faces” personifying players.

The authors of GWent were the first to capture the PS4 and Xbox One audience- although the number of map lovers there is incommensurably lower than among adherents of iOS and Android gaming.

The Poles project lacks friendliness against beginners, and it is in this direction that they are now moving. So, after the start of the open beta, an answer appeared to the main question of any fan of Hearthstone: “Where is the face that needs to be broken?" – all the leaders of the fractions have become personalized cards popping up on the gaming table after applying the ability. But this is clearly not enough to create an interactive portrait with which the player would identify himself. And in this sense, Gwent, of course, loses the genre.

Hearthstone rules mobile KKI, while maintaining hegemony on tablets and smartphones. And all because the game is really good!

Among the important advantages of “Gwint” are a restriction on the number of particularly useful maps. Only six silver and four gold cards are allowed to take with them into battle, while Hearthstone allows you to build at least the whole deck on legendary cards, thereby putting “donators” in a winning position. The assembly of a competitive deck in Hearthstone will cost more (from the position of invested time or money – depends on your approach in the game), which means that it is harder for those who are not ready to spend money on the Bonus Strike Casino game.

Unlike Gwent creators, the authors of Hearthstone thought about the audience of mobile players, and see how in a hit from Blizzard they play on a tablet or smartphone somewhere on the bus, not a miraculous miraculous. At the same time, GWent can be played on Xbox One and PS4, and Hearthstone on these platforms, as in the market of cantilever card games,. And it does not look like Blizzard was in a hurry to expand the list of supported platforms.

The editor of the deck in which it is allowed to assemble a personalized deck. There are no restrictions on thirty cards from HS – you can take from twenty -five to forty any cardboard. Here are just gold cards no more than four and silver no more than six.

The struggle between Blizzard and CD Projekt Red for the wallets and sympathy of the players will undoubtedly continue – the competition is real. What are the prospects of GWent after the release? The authors plan to develop the game in two directions: add content for single -user plot campaigns, as well as strengthen the e -sports basis.

In fact: more tournaments and leagues, good prizes, operational work with a balance depending on the state of the meta. Simple players will receive a new portion of the adventures of Geralt, Ciri and all-all in the format of small campaigns. It seems that the content will be found for everyone who is not afraid to take the cards in their hands.

If Gwent is a harsh and gloomy medieval fantasy, then Hearthstone is a Disney cartoon, where even the terrible fascinations of hell look a little nicer than it follows.

Already now, while Gwent remains at the stage of public beta, it is clear that the Poles can succeed where they could not break through with the battle of the authors The Elder Scrolls: Legends , Chronicle: Runescape Legends or Eternal. The keyword here can. After all, if the mammoth still gets tired of a too annoying opponent, then it may be concerned. Especially when in the yard year of mammoth. But there is a feeling that the course by which CD Projekt Red is developing Gwent will lead to success. After all, people who created the trilogy about Geralt work on the project. And which game is closer to you: Hearthstone or Gwent? And why? Share your opinion in the comments!