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Lead a fantasy party through card-driven, grid-based battles, with gear shaping each hero’s deck in a tabletop-style campaign.
Released 13 Jul 2015
Gear Builds Your Deck
Plan Grid-Based Battles
Build a Three-Hero Party
Shuffle your cards and ready your dice - Card Hunter is a fresh new card gaming spin on classic tabletop RPGs. Battle your way through a massive campaign solo or with friends and compete with other players in ranked play and tournaments.
Developed by The Knights of Unity · Published by The Knights of Unity
Guide a party of fantasy adventurers through a campaign presented as a tabletop game run by a game master. Adventures pit your team against groups of enemies across a series of encounters.
Battles take place on grid-based maps and unfold in turns. Cards determine available moves, attacks, defenses, and abilities; positioning and the cards you draw shape each decision. Equipment adds cards to a character’s deck, so changing gear also changes how that character plays.
Complete adventures to earn experience and loot, then adjust your party’s equipment and decks for later challenges. Play the campaign solo or cooperatively with one or two friends, or take your builds into competitive matches, leagues, and tournaments.
Players who enjoy Card Hunter often praise the way equipment directly shapes each character’s deck, making party builds and tactical choices rewarding to experiment with. The tabletop presentation, light humor, and option to play solo or cooperatively are also recurring points of appeal. Other reviewers find the card draws and dice frustratingly unpredictable, and some criticize the paid content and progression model.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Achievements | 50 |
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| Players | 1–3 |
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| Multiplayer | Card Hunter supports online multiplayer in both cooperative and competitive forms. The campaign can be played solo or online co-op with friends, and the game also offers PvP through casual games, ranked matches, leagues, and tournaments. Co-op supports up to 3 players total. |
| Multiplayer & mods | The provided information only mentions an included level editor and community-contributed maps. It does not confirm mod support for multiplayer or how user-created content interacts with multiplayer beyond community map rotation references in reviews. |
| Controller required | No |
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| Metacritic | 80/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
