Card City Nights (PC) (2014)

20150112:
Today I logged two hours and forty five minutes of gameplay!

Needless to say the game is an interesting card game. Mechanically, its different than other card games on the market (Yu-Gi-Oh!, Pokemon, and Magic The Gathering). Unfortunately, its strategies seem limited.

In particular, without collecting more cards, it seems an offensive/disability deck is much better than a defensive deck. To be reactive in this game is much trickier than being proactive.

One problem with the game is that I don't understand how to buy or sell cards. Upon entering the store, I can click on a card, but the game doesn't seem to let me buy or sell anything.

While I have little knowledge on strategies for Pokemon, I was a big fan of Yu-Gi-Oh! back in high school (when the game was first released) and of Magic: The Gathering in middle school (Urza's block and Masques block). From what I recall, both games had a lot of variety and choices in gameplay.

In any case, I still think this game is good for what it is.

Though perhaps unintentional, playing Card City Nights reminds me of both Yu-Gi-Oh! and Pokemon. For Yu-Gi-Oh!, we have the deck building theme and a corporation that makes cards (like Kaiba industries). For Pokemon, we have to collect eight Legendary cards (like eight gym badges) and an opponent who is trying to beat us to become the best (like Gary).

Overall, the game was interesting enough that I tried playing it for over two and a half hours. While it's not amazing enough to recommend, it's worthy of some playtime if it's already in your collection of games.

Overview: Card City Nights is a card game.

20240509 Snapshot:
Steam Game Time: 2.8 hours (cumulative game time) / 2h 49m (Playnite)
Last Played: 20150112

20240509:
Unfortunately I didn't seem to have a save file for this game. However, I supposed it would be worth playing from the beginning, and so that's what I did.

Steam Game Time: 5.0 hours (cumulative game time) / 2.2 hours (session game time)

20240510:
Steam Game Time: 6.6 hours (cumulative game time) / 1.6 hours (session game time)

20240511:
Steam Game Time: 8.2 hours (cumulative game time) / 1.6 hours (session game time)

20240512:
Gameplay Log: Played some.
Read a card list guide and decide to farm some cards.
A couple tries to get Ultra Fishbunjin 3000
One try to get Mc Cluck
Continue playing

Steam Game Time: 10.1 hours (cumulative game time) / 1.9 hours (session game time)

20240513:
Gameplay Log:
Used the card list guide to trade in some cards (Alchemy)

Steam Game Time: 12.1 hours (cumulative game time) / 2.0 hours (session game time)

20240514:
Steam Game Time: 12.9 hours (cumulative game time) / 0.8 hours (session game time)

20240515:
Steam Game Time: 15.8 hours (cumulative game time) / 2.9 hours (session game time)

20240516:
Steam Game Time: 16.2 hours (cumulative game time) / 0.4 hours (session game time)

20240517:
Gameplay Log:
I had trouble sleeping and played for 0.7 hours. Completing the tournament.

Steam Game Time: 16.9 hours (cumulative game time) / 0.7 hours (session game time)

20240518:
Steam Game Time: 18.8 hours (cumulative game time) / 1.9 hours (session game time)

20240519:
Gameplay Log:
Defeated the boss.
Couldn't defeat the assistant.

Steam Game Time: hours (cumulative game time) / hours (session game time)

20240521:
Gameplay Log:
Was farming for Itan Carver but then it turned out that because I already unlocked Business Casual Man that I could just buy it (in fact, I couldn't trade in for another one unless I'm missing something*)
Modified deck and faced the assistant again. Manage to luck out a 3-2 win. Very close best of 5.

Steam Game Time: 22.5 hours (cumulative game time) / hours (session game time)

*The next day I tried removing cards from my decks and that seemed to make the card available. But the funny thing was I had opened a booster with an Itan Carver so it should have freed up the card. I think somehow you can use the same copy across multiple decks but it doesn't count as a spare uf it's used in moredecks than copies. As an example, I suspect if I had one Itan Carver, I could use it in two decks, but until I have 3 Itan Carvers, I wouldn't be able to use Alchemy.

Card City Nights (PC) (2014)