Gwent: Crimson Curse
Gwent: The Witcher Card Game Expansion Pack
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Puzzle, fantasy, card games, Polish, vampires, multiplayer, internet
The first add-on to the Gwent: The Witcher Card Game, set in a universe inspired by Andrzej Sapkowski's prose and being the setting for the action of RPG games from the Witcher series. The expansion introduces over a hundred new cards and enriches the title with a dozen or so mechanics. The CD Projekt RED studio is responsible for the creation of this production.
Gwent: Crimson Curse is an add-on to Gwent, a card game set in the universe of The Witcher series - a world inspired by the prose of the Polish fantasy writer Andrzej Sapkowski. The plot background of the game depicts a conflict with vampires. The expansion introduces more than 100 new cards. The devs of the base version (as well as the The Witcher series and Cyberpunk 2077), i.e. the well-known Polish studio CD Projekt RED, are responsible for its development.
Plot
Gwent: Crimson Curse focuses on the figure of Dettlaff van der Eretein, known from The Witcher 3's expansion titled Blood and Wine. When the title bloody moon appears in the sky as a result of a dark ritual, a deadly high vampire calls on his bretheren to fight mortals.
Mechanics
Crimson Curse introduces more than 100 new cards. Thirty-one of them are neutral, the others are assigned to individual fractions (equally - each received 14).
With the new cards, the game has been enriched with twelve keywords and related mechanics. These are: Bonded (can be activated when we control a copy of a card), Deathblow (activated when a unit has destroyed an enemy), Purify (removes all statuses), Bleeding (deals 1 damage point at the end of a turn), Berserk (strengthens the card, we can activate it when the unit reaches half life), Shield (blocks the next damage dealt to the unit), Poison (destroys the unit when it has accumulated two such statuses), Harmony (strengthens the card by 1 each time when a player play a Scoia'tael card from a unique base category), Assimilate (strengthens a unit by 1 when we play a card not belonging to our base deck), Dominance (we can activate this ability if we control the strongest unit on the battlefield), Vitality (strengthens a card by 1 at the end of a turn), and Formation (gives zeal to units fighting in close combat or strengthens a card in the second row by 1).
Game modes
Gwent: Crimson Curse can be played only with others. The mainstay of the game is the online multiplayer mode.
Technical aspects
Gwent: Crimson Curse does not introduce any significant changes in the visuals of the base version of the game - we are still dealing with two-dimensional graphics, based mainly on nicely illustrated cards, whose designs resemble the style of what we know from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
Other information
Just like the base version, the add-on was released in a free-to-play model.
Last updated on May 22, 2020
Videos and Screens
[1:13] Gwent: Crimson Curse trailer #1 (PL)
Gwent: Crimson Curse Summary
Platforms:
PC / Windows March 28, 2019
PlayStation 4 March 28, 2019
Xbox One March 28, 2019
Android OS March 24, 2020
Apple iOS October 29, 2019
Developer: CD Projekt RED
Publisher: CD Projekt RED
Age restrictions: 12+
Gwent: Crimson Curse System Requirements
PC / Windows
Minimum: Intel Celeron G1820 2.7 GHz / AMD A4-7300 3.8 GHz, 2 GB RAM, graphic card 1 GB GeForce GT 710 / Radeon HD 4650 or better, Windows 7/8/8.1/10 64-bit
Recommended: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7 GHz / AMD FX-6300 3.5 GHz, 4 GB RAM, graphic card 2 GB GeForce GTX 660 / Radeon R7 265 or better, Windows 7/8/8.1/10 64-bit
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