- Original Release: 2018
- Developer: Puppet Master
- Publisher: Puppet Master
- Platform: PC, Android, iOS
Star Trek: Adversaries was a fast-paced card game that had a good response from critics. It was a digital collectable card game that featured some really nice starship models – and quite a lot of them. Unfortunately, the game was shut down and servers taken offline before it was even live for a full year. Booting up the game just gives you a login error.
However, this is a card game, and the information on the cards was kept on the Wiki for the game, so by figuring out the rules, creating needed tokens, I was able to recreate the game in Tabletop Simulator, just without the automation. It’s doesn’t have the fancy effects or the 3D models, but I can still try out the gameplay.
It’s a really fun game that reminds me a bit of Star Realms. Most of your cards are ships that can be enhanced by crew. You put them into play and can attack the opponents ship or their flagship – with the overall goal being destroying the flagship.
Each turn, the amount of energy you can spend on playing cards is increased every turn, leading to a game that starts out slow and speeds up massively. It also requires you to plan your deck with a balance of cheaper and more expensive cards. Leftover energy at the end of your turn becomes auxiliary energy, this can be spent on your flagships Special or Ulitimate powers, which also bring into play that flagsip’s unique cards.
The cards cover all the shows up to Discovery, with the cards looking nice and clean with lovely artwork on them. It covers a nice variety of ships, including a lot of alien ships in the neutral cards.
Adversaries is a fun, quick game. I probably would have hated the lootbox nature of the mobile game, but the actual card game has some fun and interesting mechanics.
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I’ve got all the ship assets saved. There wasn’t a LOT of ships, but the ones they chose were quite varied – with some unique models from canon that still only exist in this game.
I had a tough time sleeping around the time this game came out. Spent many a sleepless night playing this. I still miss it.
I was there when it first released and it gave us our first good look at the DIS era ships. Didn’t get a chance to advance in it but glad someone like you preserved it in a new form it seems. Really cool.
This game was shockingly addicting. The ship models were some of the best I’d seen in a Trek game, and the moment to moment gameplay was very close to the feel of a chess match. I don’t play these kind of games often, but I LOVED this one. Real sad when it shut down.
Adversaries sounds like legit fun, great to see that it has been saved from mobile hell! May have to try it out some time 🙂