Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Champions

Genre: Turn-Based Collectible Card Game

Players: 1-2 Competitive (Online)

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Review:

(Note: This game is no longer available)

WARNING: THIS GAME HEAVILY PUSHES MICROTRANSACTIONS AND LOOTBOXES

Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Champions (here on I’ll just call if Age of Sigmar for simplicity’s sake) is a free-to-play 1v1 Collectable Card Game with a mechanic that has you spinning some cards to perform additional actions on later turns, a mechanic that was used in this developer’s earlier game Lightseekers. In fact, the two games play so similarly I’ll be copying a good portion of the text of this review.

What sets Age of Sigmar apart from Lightseekers is its focus on where you place cards on the game board, as different cards will affect different areas. Age of Sigmar also has “quests” and “blessings” that give players more long-term goals during the game beyond just playing the best units and spells.

One other cool thing this game brings to the table is… well, actually something it brings from the table – the ability to scan your physical cards into the game (using the Smartphone app). This is a really cool feature that I wish more digital versions of card games would incorporate, though I wasn’t able to test it myself, as I don’t own any cards from this game.

However, as cool and unique as this game is, ultimately I found the mechanics to be a bit obtuse and hard to wrap my head around. I just wasn’t able to enjoy this game on the same level as other CCGs because it was harder to picture just what everything does, and how to work that together into a deck. I dunno, maybe this is my failing, but to me this game seemed overly complicated given how few options players are given (although at least in that respect, this game’s quests and blessings give it an edge over Lightseekers). Oh, this game also doesn’t allow Pro Controller use for no good reason I can see. Frustrating.

I am sure there are some CCG fans who will thoroughly enjoy Age of Sigmar, but I am unfortunately not among them. While this game has a lot of cool and unique features, the combination of complicated gimmicks and overly-simple gameplay just didn’t work for me.

tl;dr – Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Champions is a free-to-play Collectable Card Game that has players twisting cards to do different things. Unfortunately, I found the game to be both too complicated and provide players with too few options to be all that enjoyable (although it gives players a bit more to do than Lightseekers, at least).

Grade: C+

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