“Marvel Snap” is a digital collectible card game with characters from the Marvel Universe.
So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about the videogame.
- Marvel Snap is a digital collectible card game
- It is developed by Second Dinner
- The game is published by Nuverse for Microsoft Windows, Android and iOS
- The game features a collection of different Marvel characters from the Marvel Universe
- The game was released on 18 October 2022, after a period of beta testing
- Players each have a deck of 12 cards
- Each card depicts a Marvel character with cost, power level, and potentially a special ability. At the start of each round, players simultaneously put one card or more face down on one of three locations
- Locations are randomly assigned for each match, and each location has a unique effect
- At the end of each round cards are revealed and special abilities of cards trigger
- Whoever has the highest power at a given location wins that location
- The goal of the game is to win two out of the three locations
- The game usually lasts six rounds, each of them giving an increasing “energy” to play more powerful cards
- Players climb the game’s ranked ladder by earning “cubes”
- A game begins with a single cube as its stakes, but a player may double the stakes at any time by “snapping”, at which point their opponent has the option of retreating or acceding to the snap
- Designer Kent-Erik Hagman compared the mechanic to the doubling cube of the traditional boardgame Backgammon
- The gameplay of Marvel Snap is considered relatively simple compared to other collectible card games, and individual games typically last a few minutes
- The game follows a free-to-play-model featuring microtransactions for the purchase of cosmetic skins and a battle pass
- The game’s beta release included loot boxes to acquire certain cards or in-game cosmetics
- Allowing players to gamble for new cards and skins with in-game currency or real money, which sparked controversy among the player base
- It was called out as predatory by video game journalists
- Paid loot boxes are not present in the final version of the game
- Marvel Snap is the debut game from game company Second Dinner
- This is a game development studio founded by former Hearthstone developers Ben Brode, Yong Woo and Hamilton Chu
- Second Dinner is working on an update that allows for private games with friends
- According to the review aggregator website Metacritic, Marvel Snap has received “generally favorable reviews”
