Hearthstone. The most important games of the decade

Darius Matusiak

Hearthstone

Release date: 2014

Genre: card game

Platforms: PC Windows, macOS, iOS, Android

What kind of game is this?

World of Warcraft in card game form. Free, but with micropayments. Hearthstone's creators hit the jackpot with rules, visual presentation, cross-play between platforms - all these features have made the game suitable for e-sport providing it with huge success. The game maintains regular support from Blizzard developers in the form of patches and expansions, which – as boldly announced – could last up to twenty years. To date, this card has gained a player base of over 100 million.

What do we owe to Hearthstone?

Hearthstone's success was thanks mainly to a boom for card games. Many game universes have wanted to have their own decks with heroes – with varying results. For example, Valve studio with its Artifact learned that in a painful way, and Witcher's Gwent can only dream of Hearthstone popularity. On the other hand, quite original productions have also appeared, such as Kards, a card game set in the realities of World War II rather than a fantasy setting. Hearthstone was a game that blazed Blizzard's trail in the free-to-play formula. A year after the premiere, Heroes of the Storm MOBA was released, and in 2017, StarCraft 2 was released on the F2P model.

What games have emerged thanks to Hearthstone?

  1. Gwent;
  2. The Elder Scrolls Legends;
  3. Legends of Runeterra;
  4. Artifact ^^;
  5. and many other card games.
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Darius Matusiak

Author: Darius Matusiak

Graduate of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Journalism. He started writing about games in 2013 on his blog on gameplay.pl, from where he quickly moved to the Reviews and Editorials department of Gamepressure. Sometimes he also writes about movies and technology. A gamer since the heyday of Amiga. Always a fan of races, realistic simulators and military shooters, as well as games with an engaging plot or exceptional artistic style. In his free time, he teaches how to fly in modern combat fighter simulators on his own page called Szkola Latania. A huge fan of arranging his workstation in the "minimal desk setup" style, hardware novelties and cats.