Artifact

Artifact

Steam Deck Playable

Valve · Card Battler · Nov 28, 2018

It depends on what you're after.

It's free to play.

47%
Mixed
25k player reviews
High confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Graphics: 15 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Multiplayer: 9 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Interface: 9 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Monetization: 23 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 25k player reviews · updated 6 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
50% of themes are praise38% are divided12% are caveats
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
This has great gameplay in addition to exciting visuals and sound to really immerse you in the game.
15 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Multiplayer
Players who bring up Multiplayer mostly praise it.
Once you get into online multiplayer it's usually all about the "Meta" with everyone playing the same deck they found online and following through their flow chart or whatever, which might as well not be playing at that point.
9 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Interface
Players who bring up Interface mostly praise it.
Then many features are still missing and rewards for ticket modes unchanged, very low, not worth buying ticket for it, that needs to change (increase rewards for ticket modes) with hopefully some way to get more players like going f2p (letting people play standard modes and if they wanna play prize modes then buy tickets/game) or at least demo (let people try game, 2 tutorial games) that will give players view into game before buying it then I think I will be able to recommend this game.Artifact is card game based on Dota, runs on same engine, uses almost same interface, if you open Dota and Arifact you will see that menu, options are been copied nicely and that is good but what is not good is that game has been rushed and so many things are missing, I could say that probably just 10% of Dota features are in Artifact, some very important features that need to be in Artifact are not here (list of in my opinion features that are missing is posted down in review).
9 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
Art Style – Artifact is visually amazing, the design they took for this game made me fall in love to it at first sight, from the main screen to the board, it is just stunning and gives a unique touch to it, something mystic and interesting to get into, with an amazing soundtrack to help build it.
7 of 300 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love4 themes
Graphics15 reviews
Multiplayer9 reviews
Interface9 reviews
Audio7 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Gameplay60 reviews
50%
Story and characters20 reviews
35%
Servers and matchmaking7 reviews
29%
Players complain% still recommend
Monetization23 reviews
35%

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. 4 more themes were each raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and are not shown.

The data behind the verdict

For the players who want the receipts.

Player review score
47%
Mixed
Playing right now
Achievements
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Average playtime
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