Lightseekers Reviews

Lightseekers is ranked in the -1th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
7 / 10
Jan 21, 2019

Despite a limiting always-online requirement and a current lack of support for docked/tabletop play, Lightseekers rescues itself from by disaster thanks largely to the robust nature of its card system, the support for scanning in physical cards and the sheer depth of tactics available to different skill levels. Thankfully, it's also free-to-play and the the ability to earn digital cards at a steady pace via in-game challenges will keep players coming back for more each day. It's great to finally have a proper CCG on Switch – even if it's not properly optimised for Nintendo's hybrid console quite yet.

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Jan 15, 2019

The designers don't seem to have understood how strategy works with card games, and, unfortunately, that's really what differentiates a good TCG from a very poor one.

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