Buy The Witcher Adventure Game

This is a good realization of the board game. It is playable as hot-seat or online and may give you many hours of enjoyable experience.

But there are some flaws that need to be fixed to make the game perfect:

1. When a player have to do a choice, he/she can't access to the game map and/or any player hero sheet and resources including his/her own. This may easily lead to wrong decisions and waste fun. The board game is obviously free from this limitation. So, the possibility to "minimize" the choice and take look at the game state will make the game much comfortable.

2. Some choices are not clearly described. For example, Triss Merigold has a spell to look at the two top investigation cards then put one on the bottom of the deck and the other back on top. When this spell is used, the game show two cards and say to the player just "choose one of them". What will be happen next with the chosen card is unclear.

3. The rules of the game says that proofs can't be exchanged back to leads. So, the investigation successes of a hero converted to proofs must me "protected" from any bad events that force the hero to spend leads. But in the computer version proofs ARE exchanged back to leads every time a hero must spend more leads than he/she have.

4. The AI is wery weak, so the single-player games are dull and not enjoyable at all.

5. There is no russian language, sadly to many and many russian-speaking Witcher fans.

6. In network games, when a player quits at the characters selecting stage, all other players are forced to quit and try to start network game again. That allows one player to abuse many other.

7. Triss "Teleport" spell is mightly overpowered. It allows Triss to collect two leads in a turn without any risk. I think, this is not the board game disbalance but the wrong implementation in computer game. Some other abilities with the text "when you perform [stated action] {do something in addition}" also work weird in the computer game.

8. Yarpen "Command" action has a bug: if there is no condition to choose two companions (no items, no leads and no monsters in the Yarpen's region) the game stucks, disallowing the player to continue his/her turn in any way.

Not a D&D level game in complexity but still very fun to play and looks pretty.
Totally worth that 9 €uros. I hope there will be new additions / DLCs for it.

Has a few bugs, but overall an easy to learn table top game translated into digital format. Game length can range from being real short to extremely long depending on game end rules decided by the players.

Being that this is digital you don't have to keep track of what going on in the whole map because its automatic. Bought the physical version so I can play with people at home. The local hotseat format would be annoying. Hopefully Can Explode fixes many game breaking bugs.

This game seems like a top-notch digital conversion of the boardgame, so if you enjoy the physical game and want an online copy, don't hesitate to buy this. The price is right.

TLDR: The game isn't terrible but also isn't great. There's no meaningful interaction between the various players. Constant status ailments can become frustrating. 3/5 stars.

My negative review is of the game itself. It's a simple four-player "collect various resources until you have the right combination to cash them in for victory points" type of game, coupled with basic dice-based combat (versus the environment, not versus the other players). The main problem I have with this game is that there really isn't any interaction between the different players. For example, I might draw a card that affects all of the players, but it happens automatically, whether I want it to or not. At no time in the game was I able to choose to influence the other players in any way, either to help them or to hurt them. So basically it boiled down to four players, each playing a single player game on the same board. It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't very enjoyable either. I originally bought the game in the hopes that multiplayer would be fun, but considering the lack of meaningful interaction, it kind of seems pointless now.

And this game is dark. You will be negatively afflicted with status ailments every freaking turn. Because of this, the game becomes a long, grim slog to complete your quests. This is all very true to the witcher universe, I just don't know that it lends itself toward making a game fun.

On the plus side, the artwork is fantastic. Having read the various Witcher stories and played the excellent RPGs allowed me to appreciate the lore that is depicted in this game.

What would happen if Talisman and Elder Sign ever had a lovechild, great board game that just needs a couple of glitches sorting out.

Confusing at first but great fun, highly reccomended for the price! Especially if you have friends to play with.

Great adaptation on the board game. Has a few bugs at the moment. Music cuts in and out from time to time, Foul Fate symbols on abilities and actions will disapear and reappear. That's the extent of the bugs I've witnessed so far.

The quests are interesting, may get a little repetative, but the RnG elements add some interesting scenarios to the game, that can be quite funny.

If you're a fan on The Witcher games, or enjoy D&D this game is for you. So far it's a lot of fun even with its flaws :)

Please add save function, its a 2-3hours game

Simple easy and entertaining for an animated board game. Just a minor complain about the game progressed, the game become less challanging due to wide of skills and abit unbalance for Geralt and Triss, under power for Danelion LOL...

Incredibly interesting board game. Even to play with your mate on one PC. Totally recommend

Awesome. It takes a few rounds to get the hang of it and it is relatively easy at the beginning, but only as you advance in games, you come to realize how much tactics are required in this game. Each character has is ups and downs. The only problem is, that people tend to take too long for their decisions. Well, the offline fucntions are good and the A.I. is ok.

simple, but fun, just wish offline mode had a save option

I would say 50% strategy, 50% luck. Which for a board game that's pretty good.

+ good music.
+ the AI is not faceroll easy, but also doesn't cheat
+ I didn't feel like I didn't have control. You do feel like you have choices and that your choices matter. The game doesn't play itself for you.
+ the ability to play against other real life people :)

- would like the ability to skip AI's turns. The AI in comparrison to other games is quite quick, but if you're playing a 5 quest match with 3 AI opponents it drags out.

Enjoying the game and would recommend it to anyone that likes board games :)

so i just played a match against the AI as Triss and here's my detailed-revew-after-1-game for those of you that have that feeling that you just can't wait to play the game but are worried about the game being some sort of con.
TL:DR
This is a fun board game and anyone that likes board games should probably pick this up and support it.

The actual explaination of the game in my experience during 1 round, since the info given is kinda bare-bones
This board game involves you playing as 1 of four characters and completing various objectives on a quest card to score points. The objectives often are either:
1. go to some area and spend resources to get points
2. Just go to some area and you get points
3. just spend resources and get points
4. go to another person and spend resources to assist them with THEIR quest and get points while they get half as many points
It's simple enough but what makes it difficult is the board itself and two kinds of setbacks.
the first setback is drawing a misfortune card. There are 3 ways to get misfortune cards.
1. An effect of another card/monster
2. fast travel (moveing 2 spaces for the price of 1!!!)
3, move to a space and be forced to draw a misfortune card.
The misfortune cards have various effects from getting hurt, monsters and bad guys spontaneously spawning out of your rear to paying some sort of toll or even choosing between the last two options as I never really encountered the first with either of the other two.
The second setback is monster cards. Monster cards are ranked from bronze, to silver, to gold, each with increasing lethality each time. Monster cards can have various, previously mentioned effects as well, but they mostly just injure you. When you're injured you're incapable of using the action that's injured until it's healed. Some cards can heal you or you can heal yourself for the cost of one of your 2 actions. some monsters can make a quest much harder to deal with, with an example being a troll that kicked the AI's butt and I conciously avoided until i got strong enough to deal with it. You fight monsters by rolling a hero die, and a number of regular dice. the hero die tends to resonate with your development cards (next paragraph) while the regular dice have either a defense, an attack, or a blank face. meet the required amount of attacks or defenses and you succeed in either attacking or defending. attacking a monster successfully takes it off the board and can possibly yeild rewards while defending averts a bad effect from taking place. Monsters need to be killed in a single roll, their damage does not stay on between turns.

Speaking of getting stronger, you do so by drawing development cards. Development cards have various effects as well, in my case they alll had to do with rolling a hero die just right during combat, (i didn't encounter any development cards that ouright added the number of dice i roll or anything). you can choose, for an action, to draw 2 development cards and keep 1. Some development cards are much stronger than others and their effects seem to vary, (though as triss i only drew development cards that aided me in combat, which was lucky for me in this case, but each character has their own development cards by my understanding, though i think other characters CAN use other character's development cards. I'll edit this later if i'm wrong). Development cards need to be charged before they can be used and you can put a charge on a development card by using an action to charge it.
You cannot use the same action twice on one turn.

Finally i'll touch on resource gathering. you gather things called clues which come in the colors of blue, purple, and red. you get clues by either:
1. moving to an area and drawing 1 clue of one of the colors on the area
2. investigating for an action and drawin 1 clue of 1 of the three colors
3. getting cards which boost the number of clues you get. These cards tend to happen when drawing clues and can sometimes have negative effects but often have traits which resonnate with other traits and get you lots of clues in 1 go, if you're lucky enough.

There's also some war tick thing that never came into play when i used it either that or i didn't notice its effect... sooo i guess i'm lucky.

I don't think i missed anything, so i'll now move on to the impression the game gave me.

I enjoyed the game. somewhere along the line the whole thing started feeling very natural to me and i started making strategic decisions on where to go, which rout i should take to get to a destination, and what actions i can afford to spare preparing myself for what's to come and which actions i needed to use to collect resources or get the hell out of rivia (where the freaking harpy just landed!) Overall it's a very fun game and if you're a fan of board games i think you should get it. it's only about a day old so i haven't found a multiplayer match yet but I dabbled in the multiplayer options and i found a small chatbox on the top left of the screen, which is vital for games like this where playing the player can be just as important as playing the game.

The downside to this game that i can see so far is that the tutorial consists of a bunch of videos as opposed to a hands-on experience, so that may make it just a little annoying for some people to get into it but i found that once i started playing i eventually got the hang of it.
Also the visuals aren't too impressive. it's really just a board with pieces on it and some music in the background which actually bugged out on me once and just stopped. it didnt hinder the game at all, it was just less musical.

I could give some arbitrary numerical score but overall i reccommend it and i definately hope a community grows around it so it can see further development.
arbitrary score:
pi x the square root of negative x where x is the number of sex cards available in the first game / something of slightly higher value... like actually getting laid.
... dang this revew ran long, hope it was helpful...

Finally!! Played the beta already and loved it. Now even with SP. Easy to learn and playable the way you want (choose between different characters and how long you want to play; no timer or something). If you like board games / card games, you really should give it a try. :)

This is a simple but suprisingly entertaining game, made for fans of the Witcher series and who also enjoy casual board games.

I'll start off by saying this: don't expect too much from this game; the system has been developed competently enough so that it offers more than an average amount of replayability, with gameplay duration lasting somewhere between 70-120mins depending on how many main quests are necessary to win the game - the number of quests to determine the victor can be chosen at the beginning of the game. However, if you are expecting the next X-Wing or Arkham Horror, you'd better look elsewhere. But if you can put such hype aside and play it for what it is: a decent board game that, if played with friends either online with this digital version, or face-to-face with the physical copy (the way I believe all board game SHOULD be played if you're able to do so) is worth your consideration.

The Witcher Adventure Game is, in certain aspects, similar to Arkham Horror and Talisman - in fact to me it feels somewhat like a mish-mash of the two. Is it as good as Arkham Horror? In my opinion, no; Is it better than Talisman - if judging Talisman without all the expansions and basing the comparison simply on the base game itself - yes, to me at least it made for a more enjoyable experience, both online and face-to-face with the physical copy.

In terms of gameplay; it's kind of a mish-mash of Arkham Horror and Talisman, so, like I said, this game has a level of spontaneity, with random spikes of difficulty throughout the game - but it makes for an interesting story as you're playing. Taking into consideration all the different events (foul events and good fortune), monsters (leveled as bronze - easy, silver - medium, and gold - hard) and the war track, it really isn't suprising how you might find yourself at the bottom of the pack if hit with too many unlucky cards a few turns in a row; but if you play it smart you generally defy the odds and hold out for these few 'bad' turns and bring yourself back into contention for first place.

The characters are pretty well balanced. Having played with all but Triss, I've yet to find anything overpowering or game-breaking with any of the four playable characters. Each have their own pros and cons - not that I'll spoil their abilities; learning the playstyle of each character for the first time was half the fun!

Last but now least, the artwork is pretty topnotch - and it should be, considering CDPR and FFG have sourced most of their material from the concepts done for the three witcher games.

Overall I reckon it's worth a grab for witcher fans who also enjoy BOARD GAMES. This isn't a hard game to wrap your head around; you can learn the system within the first 10minutes; but it is enjoyable, and that, at least for me, makes it worth the buy.

This game is surely interesting, but I spent about 2 hours to figure out what's the game about and how to play it. I've never played any game like this before and English isn't my native language. I wish they could make step by step explanation during your first game play. Not just tons of plain text instruction in a discrete "RULE" section and boring videos. These game is nothing like Hearthstone, but rather resemble to those DND adventure card games ( just guessing). All your planning can be futile if you had a bad stroke of chance in the throwing of the dices.

Pro:
- Mac Version is suprisingly well optimized.
- Great music. Ps. there are some BGM taken directly from Witcher 3, love them.
- Combine fortune and tactic.
- Massive amount of cards with great art design.
- Non-repetitive gaming experience.(At least for some solid time)
- It's The Witcher Series.
- Since this is CDP's product, I'm hoping more of free updates on the content of the game.

Con:
- Can't save the game progress. Once you quit all is lost, at least for the current version. Ps. I haven't had the chance to play Windows version so I won't know if there's any difference.
- You can't optimize the AI's speed. It's either too quick for some people to understand or too slow for some people to tolerate.
- Personally I think AI only speed up the game progress, it add nothing to the fun but reduce it. I recommend that you play all roles by yourself or play it online.

Excellently crafted game. Deep and varied gameplay makes for a whole lot of experimentation. Hours of fun with other players or against the computer. And the Witcher lore makes this a must-have for fans of the franchise.

Game is quite fun, although confusing at first (I skipped the video). I haven't played that long but I can see this being a game that I play for quite some time. I will update my review when I have played more.

Pros:
- Nice music
- Online play
- Allot of witcher lore
- Well optimised
- Luck and skill balanced

Cons:
- Confusing at first
- AI is bad (from what I have played)

This game is so good.
+Pretty Damm epic music.
+Overall In depth gameplay
+strategy
+ AI
+if you love the witcher, this is an must have..
+Greatly made by the devs, They patch things pretty quick and Listen to the community here on steam (probably also on GoG.com)
+better than heartstone
+ you can play against humans
+ just buy it

- sometimes the music dissapear or mute itself for like 2-3 seconds, this is absolutely patchable so not a big thing.