Gods Unchained is a recent buzzword in crypto gaming, it could be the next big blockchain thing. Card games are very popular these days, you can pay and bring few popular streamers to play this game and you have a winning scenario where new players will come in abundance, specially when there is a chance to earn crypto while playing the game. But the most important question to ask here, is this game any fun?
Gods Unchained is basically a Hearthstone clone with some neat new mechanics, don't be surprised if you get hooked, this is a very fun game to play, at least to me it is. I played a lot of Hearthstone so to me this feels like some kind of Hearthstone expansion, but it's not, you need to learn a lot of new cards, you need to learn god powers, some new mechanics like souless, void and such.
There are 9 mana crystals in total, mana crystal progression every turn goes like this 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 5.5 - 6 - 6.5 - 7 - 7.33 - 7.66 - 8 - 8.33 - 8.66 - 9, so basically in order to play a 9 mana card 15 turns need to end, while in Hearthstone 10 is the max mana which you get in 10 turns. In this game if you play 2nd you have will have 3 extra coin usages while the first player has one coin usage. There are also many abilities that will feel very familiar, like protected (taunt), blitz (rush), afterlife (deathrattle) and few others.
In my 100s of games played it seems there are a lot of zoo decks out there, most of the games will be resolved in 6 turns, there are also some control decks out there which will slowly but surely burn you down.
While you play this game you will be hearing a lot about Genesis cards and Core cards. Genesis packs can be bought and you can't unlock those cards without paying for them or winning high in weekend constructed events. Core packs are your free to play packs which you will earn just by playing games and leveling up. One thing to note, this is still in beta so your core cards will be gone and you will need to unlock them again once the game goes live.
In terms of how far can you get without buying Genesis cards with only free to play cards it depends, I managed to get to Auric Gold (tier 9 with 12 tiers total) with only Nature starting deck the game provides, then I started fighting vs a lot of high level players with legendary cards in their decks, it will definitely become harder to advance further with free to play decks after that.
Overall Gods Unchained is shaping up to be a pretty nice game, if you buy some packs with Ethereum your experience may be even more interesting, soon the game is launching and you will be able to trade those cards on the markets. Try it out if you wish, it's completely free to play, to enter beta you can use my beta key vEUyOhkRJT.