Shards of Infinity is a deck-building game that has a digital adaptation. You must gain enough mastery to have infinite power or deplete your opponent’s health to win.

Shards of Infinity Rules Description:

Shards of Infinity is a fairly typical deck-building game. But it has a few nice wrinkles that make it unique.

You play as one of four factions, Wreathe, The Order, Homo Deus, and Undergrowth. Each faction is good at specific aspects of the game, like card draw, damage, healing or gaining mastery. Every card in the deck belongs to a faction and often playing more than one card from a faction on a turn improves its abilities.

There are three resources in the game, health, mastery, and crystals. Health is just that. If you reach zero health you are knocked out of the game. Mastery is used for one of the ways to win. If you get to 30 mastery points and play your Infinity Shard card, you win. Also, some cards become more powerful based on your mastery points. Crystal are used to purchase new cards from the six in the market row. Cards in the market row are replenished as you buy them.

There are two types of cards, allies and champions. Allies are played and go into your discard pile at the end of your turn. Champions have a health stat and stay in front of you until your opponent knocks them out and then they too go in your discard pile. Some Champions give you extra resources or abilities each turn.

Some Ally cards are mercenaries and have a red border. These cards may be fast-recruited. This means they instantly go into play and you resolve their abilities. But at the end of the turn they do not go into your discard pile. Instead they are placed at the bottom of the market deck.

On your turn you draw five cards from your deck and play them in any order. The app resolves each card’s effect one at a time and totals your resources gained. You may purchase cards with crystals and once per turn may pay one crystal to gain one mastery. Then you may damage your opponent or their Champions.

You win if you have 30 Mastery and play your Infinity Chard card or if all your opponents are eliminated.

Quick Review of the Shards of Infinity App:

Shards of Infinity is a fun deckbuilder that is quick to learn and play. It combines some interesting mechanics from the genre to create a refreshing game.

The interface of the app is easy to pick up and the tutorial will have you playing the game in minutes. The graphics look great and the card art is well done.

You can play against easy, medium, or hard AI. The AI is challenging. I win about 70% of the time against the medium AI, and have yet to try a lot against the hard AI. It is tough. There is also a pass-n-play mode. The app does a good job of doing the game’s accounting by keeping track of your health, mastery and in turn resources.

The Shards of Infinity app was so good I went out and got the physical game with the expansion. I hope it comes to the app soon as it gives the different factions special abilities and cards that are better if they match your faction leader. In the meantime you should pick up this app. It is available on Steam, iOS and Android.