Asgard Rift: Battle Arena

Asgard Rift: Battle Arena is a tactical card game with awesome characters to collect and evolve. Explore an exciting epic universe, battling other players in real time. Create your strategies by leveraging fighters with unique skills and special attacks. Enjoy breathtaking matches and earn amazing rewards. Collect gorgeous chests with extraordinary cards and powerful runes to upgrade your fighters.







Gameplay

At first glance Asgard Rift: Battle Arena reminded me of a well made Plants vs Zombies, but as I continued to play I began to notice the depth of strategy within the gameplay. Having six elements to navigate through, choosing your offensive and defensive strategy is hardly easy to manage. As you progress in the game you begin to unlock new cards that vary in strength depending on their star level. Once you obtain a good amount of cards, you can construct your deck and begin to level your cards.Each battle is a 1v1 set on a 4x8 grid. Your turns are timed, so you’ll to have a little bit of precontemplated strategy before heading into battle. As you place your units onto the grid, they will automatically move forward or attack, the unit targets depends if you have an enemy unit blocking the way. Your goal is to defeat the enemy champion by dealing damage to their hp. If your units lane is blocked by an enemy unit, it will instead try and clear the lane instead of dealing damage to the hero.

Creativity

As you get further in the game, you are given cards that present a plethora of interesting abilities. Controlling the board becomes harder, as you are constantly introduced to new skills that alter your strategy and planning. The 4x8 grid does present challenges as it changes it’s state at different levels. Using your environment to your advantage is what separates the good, from the excellent players.The artwork in Asgard Rift: Battle Arena is one of the best I’ve seen on a mobile card strategy. Although the background isn’t as dynamic as I would like, each unit has personality that is unmatched and the animation takes it to another level. Although you won't find the music on the same level as the artwork, the sounds effects are at least tolerable and not too repetitive. Hopefully in future updates they will look into a better sound technician, to raise the value of Asgard Rift: Battle Arena.

Value

I wouldn’t put it fully at Pay-To-Win, since you have a solo campaign that will allow you gain cards - but… you can definitely “Supercell” your way to the top of the leaderboards. Asgard Rift: Battle Arena gives you gems, that will allow fast unlocking of chests and access to rarer cards that you would have to work pretty hard for to obtain through normal channels. Your cards rank from common through legendary, and the rate at which you obtain the higher tiered cards are ridiculously low.The time it took Mangatar to make this game, and the quality they put out - warrants a few weeks of gameplay. But the first sight of me getting steamrolled by “Supercelled” decks, is the same time I’ll be deleting this app.