Artifact

Artifact
76
Metacritic
46
Steam
72.899
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Price
free
Release date
28 November 2018
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Total
46 (24 800 votes)
Recent
73 (19 votes)

Artifact now features two games: Artifact Classic, the original Dota 2 trading card game, and Artifact Foundry, a special edition with streamlined gameplay, new cards, new single-player content, and an improved new player experience.

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Artifact system requirements

Minimum:

  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: 64-bit Windows 7 / 8 / 10
  • Processor: Intel i5, 2.4 Ghz or better
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Integrated HD Graphics 520 w/128 MB or better
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 7 GB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card
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Firefinch
Firefinch

The game was fun, when it came out, but it has long since died off. Unfortunate, as it was a cool concept.

Jenny Death
Jenny Death

Probably the best card game when compared to other games like MTG:A, Hearthstone, etc. The IP is really strong and the game-play is something incredibly fresh within the genre. I believe Richard Garfield was involved in terms of its' design but that might just be rumor. I remember hearing talk about that during its' development. It's a complete shame it got ruined by the monetization scheme.

If you could get a dedicated friend group together specifically to play the game it's worth it, but for all other intents it's essentially dead now with a small straggler group of some Chinese accounts still in it for the long haul. Probably less than 20 people or so, and usually late at night if you're NA.

Long story short though, don't bother.

Lockdonnen
Lockdonnen

I'm happy to have paid for TF2.
I'm disappointed to have paid for this.

^LAUAR^
^LAUAR^

Valve officially abandoned this game, but Artifact Classic is still a pretty fun game, although some RNG and balance issues can be annoying sometimes.

Ryoku
Ryoku

Really sad at how the game was handled. I was hoping they might make it work since the concept itself was very promising, but in the end they started out greedy, half-assed a rework and then dropped it before it was finished :(

Napalm
Napalm

I like game, now that it is free, more people can play. I recommend if you like card game, very much... if you not, then maybe not game for you. beautifull graphics and cool mechanics make game sexy.
When it comes to Valve taking our money: THEY CAN STEAL OUR MONEY, BUT THEY CAN'T STEAL OUR PRIDE!
thank you

braindance
braindance

Still the best CCG I've ever played. The fact the Valve pulled the plug on it is a tragedy, but sadly hating on it was all the hype of winter 2019, and people love to hate. Economy was its downfall (apparently), and even though developers added enough ways for obtain cards for free (or even play with whole deck without buying it) to never have to pay a cent, the hate hype could not be stopped, nobody cared about the quality of gameplay (which is SUBLIME and absolutely unique), or the polish, or potential. Memes and drama are where it's at, people love mocking AAA titles and companies, and when they get a rare chance to do it, you can be sure they will milk it to the max.
Even having to wait a while for matchmaking, I still keep coming back to it, nothing can replace the sheer satisfaction of winning a complex game against a good opponent in this game. Maybe now that it's free, more people will try it and form some playerbase for Valve to give it another chance? Probably not. But one can hope, right?

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血 腥啊文

rnm, 退钱
F*ck U return my game money back
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DoC
DoC

THIS GAME SUCKS. STEAM WOULDNT LET ME REFUND THIS PIECE OF SHIT

Joe
Joe

I liked the game originally and hope more people can play it now that it is free.

Aflackazarkitionado
Aflackazarkitionado

I spent money on this horrid game and then didnt refund it because they said they were going to fix it. Now that I cannot refund it ever, they say they wont be working on it again. Fuck you valve, you better be making hl3 with all that extra manpower or imma go postal

Robotainment
Robotainment

It's finally free, so if you like card games, you should try it.
The gameplay is good and I absolutely love the music.

Kuroto
Kuroto

Waited years for 2.0, only for them to abandon it essentially. Very disappointing.

Playapex
Playapex

at least refund those that paid. fuck

ad
ad

Free to play is how this game should have always been.

It's not because because it was not "worth" your money. Its an excellent but flawed game. If the game were free from the start, with micro-transactions only over cosmetics cards could have been balanced freely without affecting axe-coin allowing for a competitive environment to flourish.

Instead they killed it, attempted to rebuild it into Foundry (which removed the fun parts of the game and became a boring game), then killed it again.

As a lover of the game I can only hope that they one day return to the formula. Its worth a play to try out this piece of valve history. You can still find matches in the draft gauntlet within a few minutes at most.

Empyricus
Empyricus

After promises and promises of a rework/overhaul they ditch the process. All fine. However, they refuse refunds Aswell. Now thats unacceptable. Abysmal. Literally a scam.

Moos3
Moos3

Wasnt very good at launch, they decided to rework game. Numbers were low due to keeping the beta as hidden. All work stopped. No more updates here.

Runcible
Runcible

Actually no value in getting this game.

Accell | DE
Accell | DE

Just don't download it.
Don't waste your time.

CR4T3Z
CR4T3Z

bought this game, tried to return it within 0.7 hours of purchase, couldn't because of some card pack i opened because I HAD TO OPEN IT TO PLAY THE GAME

Duke Rollo of Zharki
Duke Rollo of Zharki

Absolutely incredible game! Please resurrect

Vortexnova02
Vortexnova02

Got the game when it was released had fun for a while then got hit by the "paywall". It's sad bcs it could have been one of the best card games but valve ruined it. Now that it is free you can experience being disappointed for free.

LooseCipher
LooseCipher

I feel robbed, I invested in this and they kinda just abandoned it.

Love life you only get 1 chance
Love life you …

To say people was scammed into investing in this game is an understatment.

Promises of updates, Tournaments, new cards, new game modes - NONE OF THIS MATERIALISED after they had made people pay £20 to play and potenitally hundreds of pounds into the Card moneterisation so you could have a deck to play with.

What do they do to reward people that have stood by and supported them from day 1 -= they (Valve) make the game free to play and abandon it.

I WILL NEVER INVEST IN ANOTHER VALVE PRODUCT

DeathStroke
DeathStroke

I hope you will give me back the money i spent on this game.

EZmoneySniper
EZmoneySniper

BETTER THAN ARTIFACT CLASSIC... Then again that's not much of an accomplishment is it?

KZshin
KZshin

i like how this game create new mechanic for online card game

AWOOGA BOOGA BOOBA
AWOOGA BOOGA BOOBA

The cyberpunk 2077 of Valve (they've also quit development lol)

unleashed
unleashed

bad game ever + also became free, after buying without anything.

Oddish
Oddish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIL9wLxG01M&ab_channel=Dawnfall

"The world is not anymore the way it used to be!! MMHH MMHH MMHH, NONONO!!! Arrrtiiiffaaaacttt!!! Arrrttttiiifffaaaccttt!!!! WOW!!!!!" Great Job Valve.

Squirt Russell
Squirt Russell

Wait a minute. Why did I pay money for this game all those years ago. Wait what. What happened. Are you telling me this game wasn't a dream induced by my chronic meat-sweats? Did I actually lose money to Valve only for them to make it free later on? I don't. GabeN why?

ProLucker
ProLucker

JUST F*CK YOU. DEAD GAME FROM BEGINNING. STOLEN MONEY. What you get:

NOTHING and small useless golden Circle "Collector" cards.

What a joke. Biggest scam of Valve. The time will come wehn Valve ll gets it back. Aand i will support their downfall with everything i have.

Scammers should go to prison.

C0CK_HUNT3R_3OOO
C0CK_HUNT3R_3OOO

As a hearthstone veteran who also tried other digital card games such as Runnetera, Kards, Gwent and also played some magic the gathering IRL. I must say Artifact is probably the most unique and fun experience I've had with fantasy card game. It's a pity that opinion on this project was ruined by greedy monetization. Finally the game is fully free as it should've been in the first place, but sadly it didn't increase the playerbase and overall popularity.

mazza666gaming
mazza666gaming

Absolutely love the game, so sad it didnt succeed

The Lucky Foot
The Lucky Foot

I am reporting Valve to the Better Business Bureau. I mean it.

First time I write a review on a game.

I've lost my respect to Valve because of their greed for money at the cost of their loyal customer's trust.

They don't even give a sheeeeeeeeeetttt(censor that faktards!) about your feedback and won't even give a decent goodwill gesture for ripping off gamers.

Shame on you Valve! This ain't over!

Not fair
Not fair

The most regret spending money to buy some video game of my life.

Actinsome
Actinsome

A sad fate befell this game. I had a damn good time for the first month after release, but stale games, bad monetization, and lack of content killed it.

Karakla
Karakla

Artifact is one of these card games that has a lot of convoluted rules just to be different.

If you want to play a good card game for free, play "Eternal Card Game".

Code:Koi
Code:Koi

I regularly googled "how many people are playing artifact right now" throughout this game's life and death because the decline was genuinely shocking. From 60,000 to 60 overnight. Probably one of the biggest flops in gaming.

I check here and there now and the game averages 30 people concurrent. Completely dead, you can pretty much only play against bots now. There's the old event thing permanently there and you can either run the gauntlet mode a bunch for streaks or just go into bot matches and assign the opponent's deck.

Thing is though, I actually still really like this game. I'm one of the 30 sad fucks who actually still plays it every so often. I genuinely believe if volvo didn't completely lose touch with that microtransaction system then this game could have done well.

To the one random valve dev who reads this, you made a cool game :) shame it had to end so soon

Lumin.
Lumin.

(Pre-Purchased it for --60 bucks--)
"Hey guys, devs here, we flopped the game since day 1. We got all the money we could ever get from this sham, but now everyone knows about it, so we are not gonna make any more money-but it is your fault because you didn't give us even more money and time to fix it-so we are now also officially abandoning it and you can have everything for free". One of the biggest game scams of my past 10 years. The game was overhyped to be a fresh polished card game where you could even make money out of, turning out to be a ridiculously unbalanced half-baked troll project. I remember back in the day, all heroes having stats like 2/4 and Axe having 3/9, which is so obviously unbalaned. Shows that they clearly can't even understand basic math. Even their dirty selves knew it, which is why they gave you "10 packs for free", and by doing this, they void you of your right to request a refund because " you already used up these packs, which is a legal loophole of no refund". Pre-purchasing is the way of the consumer to tell you that they have faith in you and are backing you up so you can be more flexible about developing your product / not run out of cash before you complete it. People like you are the ones who give a bad rap for the rest of the developers who ask for pre-purchase in order to help them. You used the good faith in people towards you against them. Such filth.

BethesdaX
BethesdaX

Dead game and pls return my money

Falarus
Falarus

This game is the reason I will never invest in another Valve product outside of Steam. Hundreds of dollars down the drain. No compensation

Pixleator
Pixleator

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"Minecraft good Fortnite bad"
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I started to say the next sentence relayed to me by our Lord and Savior, Science.
"M-m-mi... Mine..."
"MINE..."
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Nearly half of humanity is here now. Even the dead came out their graves for this. Everyone is climbing on top of each other and on the walls of skyscrapers since they couldn't fit. So many lights, music, dancing, feasts... yet barely a minute passed. Humanity is very interesting.
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...
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Congratulations.
edit2:Oh kind stranger you can steal my memes all you want😭😩💦💦
edit4: thanks for the Reddit gold
edit5: thanks for the Reddit silver
edit6: thanks for the Reddit bronze
edit7:thanks for the Reddit uranium
edit8:thanks for the Reddit cardboard
edit9:thanks for letting me fuck your mom
edit37:thanks for the Reddit poop award
edit45:thanks for the Reddit slave
edit54:thanks for the prostate cancer
edit69420(nice 😳):thanks for allowing me in this sub I’m 4 years old

Wrektify
Wrektify

Let me leave a review just because it's sad to see all the reddit trolls out here in full force still, even a year+ after the game has died. All of the broke reddit teenagers and neckbeards who couldn't afford a $2 booster pack are the majority of these negative reviews and have been since day 1 release. This game is and always has been much better than most card games out there, and better than a lot of games out there in general. It's the entitled me generation of "I want the best deck ever but I want it free and I want it now" players who don't know how to do anything but netdeck to copy others builds, throwing a tantrum when they can't, that negative review bombed this and that's the truth. Complaints of daily quests amount to the same, because they want a way to get expensive cards to sell on the market (which the community was excited about at the time of release) but they didn't want to have to shell out any real money to get those cards in the first place. Well sorry, if everything is free and everyone can get everything then guess what? Nothing has value, so you have to pick and choose what you want. Not to mention half of these bad reviews are account who have played for under a few hours and just post because they see others doing it. Monkey see, monkey do. It's why we can't have nice things.

RIP Artifact, a solid 7.5 out of 10 of a game upon release that fell prey to the idiotic Reddit community of noob casual gamers.

gonzoforpresident
gonzoforpresident

I bought the game at release, sold my starter cards, made some real money, uninstalled. Zero interest in the game. Thanks Valve!

Darth Plaegus
Darth Plaegus

Great potential that fell flat due to the added c in ccg, because for obvious financial reasons, and idiots needing the dopamine kick of opening dozens of mystery boxes until they get the cards they need to play the decks they want to play, and absolutely 0 attempts to alleviate any of its issues post launch.
The "remastered" version that is Foundry is somehow a worse version of this game, with a less predatory transaction system in turn for dumbed down core gameplay mechanics.
Valve have long stopped making games, their new VR stuff might be decent, but everything else is forgettable.

Pr3Ci510n
Pr3Ci510n

Nobody plays this anymore. It is abandoned by both the players who originally played it and the devs.

(You know, the card packs on the Community Market idea would have worked.)

dotdenton
dotdenton

кто пишет негатив тот позер ебучий

twitch.tv/brunod55
twitch.tv/brunod55

I would rather do math homework than play this

BLUE MAP ONLY
BLUE MAP ONLY

Daed game but yeah gameplay is great

Bongy
Bongy

Absolutely incredible card game.

batteries
batteries

Fantastic game! Very in depth, complex, and strategic. Really makes you feel smart when you succeed. I'm sure plenty of people are still playing it. It's a Valve game, after all. They are pretty on top of their stuff. They wouldn't just leave something to rot, right? I mean, it could still thrive with a niche audience, all you have to do is patch it and... guys? Hello? Is anyone there?

...

sure is quiet around here...

Rick James
Rick James

All games of this genre only exist to exploit people.

There is no message or meaning to this game. No story, no moral.

They didn't even bother to implement achievements or trading cards.

We are expected to believe this game play is enjoyable:

So much time/money wasted accumulating some virtual items only to be able to test out one of a handful of viable strategies.

The feedback loop of 50% victory rate thanks to matchmaking quotas keeps us coming back like drug addicts.

Where is the fun in this game? RNG on our side today, and successfully executing a strategy somebody else came up with gives us a dopamine hit? Matched against an inferior opponent makes us feel good?

At least a board game gives you access to all the pieces from the time of purchase, despite being repetitive.

Thank goodness I could sell my "free" handout cards to reclaim the money spent on this game.

loopuleasa
loopuleasa

A lesson for Valve

When developing a game, you need to stop sometimes and check whether it is fun or not

Fried Zucchini
Fried Zucchini

Now we have all cards but still the same game.

Darcyeet
Darcyeet

Playerbase is non existent, still slaps tho

washed up smurf
washed up smurf

A game isn't fun/great when opponent has an advantage over you just because he spent money on fancy cards and heroes. It should be fair.

wuTzUp
wuTzUp

do things better and try again

RAVEN
RAVEN

the peps are cRRaapp but the game is good

Haloid
Haloid

The most complex online card game on the market.

It was basically killed by bad marketing and the fact that the average card game player is only able to 1) Buy overpriced packs and 2) Play 1cost -> 2cost ->3cost.

Grab a couple of friends, download it for free, play a couple of phantom draft and then quite after 30minutes because your brain has turned to mush from the possibilities.

men are weak af
men are weak af

I used to enjoy this game but there's not enough players on these days, it just feels like a waste, waiting around forever for a session. TOTAL BUMMER.

Bunta
Bunta

I cant believe I let myself buy this on release ROFLLL

Ashimar
Ashimar

great game that was ruined by a company that is too busy making billions

Crozz
Crozz

Valve cash grab... worse than vaporware since it was actually introduced by Valve. Normally i give Gabe my money but this one he essentially took my money.

Captain Cuddlefish
Captain Cuddlefish

playing echo slam shook me to my core

kamyl
kamyl

I actually enjoyed this game, even though I wasn't very good at it.

Crasher
Crasher

Good gameplay with the 3 table concept, good system of tournaments inside the game, good soundtrack and a good lore expasion of dota universe through the comics. Unfortunately, it was abandoned to focus on an auto chess game wich no one cares now. I hope valve bring back this game from the dead, either the classic or the foundry.

Cxhreen
Cxhreen

Give me back my money. I did not eat for a month for this.

Xablaumon
Xablaumon

Potential and plenty of RNG.
Monetization makes Blaublau very sad.

Chris
Chris

I love this game. One of the biggest tragedies I've seen. Wish I was in an alternate universe where they had released the game for free day 1.

Madjinn
Madjinn

Can everyone start playing this again, be a lot cooler if you did

Metaxen
Metaxen

10% LUCK
20% SKILL
15% CONCENTRATED POWER OF WILL
5% PLEASURE
50% PAIN
AND 100% REASON TO REMEMBER THE NAME

Actually this game is 99% pain and 1% pleasure, but its still fun and you should play it.