Faeria

This game just makes me sad. It's my favorite card game of all time and has the best graphics/sound/UI/world/vibe/etc. in my opinion. I wish it would get some sort of revival - I keep checking back every few months, hoping beyond hope.

This is the best dead CCG game I've played in... well, forever.

It's a shame, and not really worth buying unless you got some friend to play with.

I would love to know of another game that blends head-to-head tactics + CCG like this game does.

This is one of the best games I've had the pleasure of playing. I don't say that often and love the experience. Thanks so much to the developers and the human beings I've had the pleasure to play with. The experience is so detailed and immersive that it reminds me of the 90's playing magic the gathering. I have to give this game my highest recommendation if you love card games or chess. It's awesome!

Great card game, really cheap on sale, easy to gain cards, really solide single player mode.

Interesting single-player campaign. Decent free to play options

Faeria is fun. Okay, I can see myself spending 10 more hours on fighting AI on Pandora Mode. I already spent 28 hours. The rest of the game depends if I can push myself over the skill cliff of deckbuilding, because it's really hard. I can recommend this game very easily. I get to max out the utility of every monster, every decision, and win a lot.
But let's go into the reasons why this game isn't successful. NOTE: I go against AI and don't really compete.
- Faeria looks like a typo to a lot of search engines. It's very close to Fairy.
- You don't get to walk around. Like every other trading card game, you battle and these battles can get lengthy. There's no rest stop besides staring at the card collection.
- The campaign mode is fighting random NPCs with one-liners and that's it. There's no story, no satisfying closures besides winning, no secrets to unlock beyond the loot boxes of cards. The boss battles do have that unfair advantage, but there's no extra flair to them so they still look like normal NPCs to fight. While you are building a card collection, most people won't feel the dopamine of progress.
- In a fair match, the tension is not there for a lot of mid games. You either steamroll or get steamrolled. This might be because I play very defensively and haven't touched the aggressive cards. This might also be b/c I don't play competitively. I like steamrolling, but variety is the spice of life.
- Most of us will never ever beat this game, because the hard challenges are really hard. Many games can split the difficulty into Easy Mode, Normal Mode, and Hard Mode. This game doesn't split those modes, it blends them all together (easy stuff first ofc) and you know, not everyone wants to play Hard Mode. Like I said, my next 10 hours are probably going to be Pandora Mode and ignore the rest of it.
- I've fallen into playing very defensively. Like I ALWAYS go for the faeria well on the first turn. This might be a me problem, but I feel like it's the strongest strat.
What is Pandora Mode? You build a random deck 1 card at a time and play 6 random NPCs in a FAIR match. And there's rewards for it.
But again, I like the game. But again, I like utilizing every card to the most of its ability, being very goal-orientated when I place new land, and then steamrolling my AI opponents.

The ability to select and place lands on the board provides so many strategic considerations. It's also interesting that having presence on the board is rewarded, with additional options for land placement and "faeria" (this game's version of "mana" or "energy") if positioned correctly. If the overall flow of card games and/or the art presented above inspire appeal, this is probably worth playing. I habitually refuse to engage in micro-transactions or purchase DLC content, but I've been enjoying this enough that I made an exception (when they went on sale, of course).
I have not thoroughly investigated PvP, so I can't speak to any meta or the overall balance of power among cards, but I successfully got in a few matches with ease. There is a wealth of solo content to be completed, some of which unlocks additional cards. Additionally, one is able to craft some new cards each day (one card per six hours, after a certain early player level, at time of writing). Packs are obtained from leveling up and completing daily given quests, which can be rerolled once if you would like a different task than the one it presents. There's a draft mode ("Pandora" it's called) which I have yet to touch after almost 80 hours logged.
I would recommend this wholeheartedly, with a few caveats. First, know that there is unlikely to be any new content; there hasn't been a balance patch in years. The developers are openly working on other, newer projects. Secondly, to get the most of your play time and unlock cards efficiently, it might be best to play regularly/daily rather than dedicating isolated, longer blocks of time.