NationStates Worlds
| NationStates Worlds | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Serdadu Games |
| Publisher(s) | Serdadu Games |
| Series | Realms of the Multiverse (initally), various |
| Engine | Unity |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, macOS, iOS, Android |
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| Genre(s) | Digital collectible card game |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Nationstates Worlds, often capitalized as NationStates Worlds and abbreviated as NSW is a free-to-play online digital collectible card game developed by Serdadu Games. It was first announced by CEO Jaret Agus Fajar in ChinaJoy 2045. It began its closed beta phase in the Asia-Pacific region in November the same year, and its open beta phase in February the following year before finally being released in April 2046.
Nationstates Worlds is available on Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems, as well as on iOS and Android phones, Windows 8 devices, Android tablets, and iPad, supporting iPad Air, iPad 4th generation, iPad 3rd generation, iPad 2, iPad mini, and iPad mini with Retina display.
Gameplay
Nationstates Worlds is a card game set initially in the Realms Multiverse, but has expanded to other universes in 2050. Players can compete against each other or the AI in one-on-one combat (except in the Alliance format). Players choose from ten starting party leaders (often shortened to just Leaders), each coming from one class. All classes have unique cards and abilities, known as leader skills, which help define class archetypes. Each player uses a deck of cards from their collection with the end goal being to reduce the opponent's health to zero.
There are 4 different types of cards: units, commands, weapons, and leaders. These cards are ordered by rarity, with Gold cards being the rarest, followed by Silver, Bronze, and Stone. Serdadu releases expansions of additional cards every quarter, as well as smaller mini-sets and odd packs between expansions and on multiple special days such as International Men's Day or Lunar New Year, to increase the variety in the metagame. The game uses a freemium model of revenue, meaning players can play for free or pay to acquire additional card packs or content.
Formats
- Standard, the one of the first formats introduced, has the player start with a 40-card deck (s)he assembles his/herself. In this format, the player is matched against another based on his/her rank. Every win awards the player with one star, with the exception of winning on a streak, which awards the player with two stars, while two or more losses in a row results in the deduction of one star. Five stars are required for the player to advance in rank. The list of ranks, from highest to lowest, are as follows:
- Master of Games
- Cosmic
- Archon
- Elder
- Celestial
- Mythic
- Legendary
- Conqueror
- Emperor
- Advisor
- Warlord
- Veteran
- Fabled
- Revered
- Honoured
- Respected
- Renowned
- Recognized
- Seasoned
- Regular
- Irregular
- Duelist
- Initiate
- Civilian
- Quidditch, based on the sport. Decks used in the quidditch format must be in the list of allowed cards. Furthermore, the effects of some cards are changed in this format to better suit the idea of a quidditch match, and all the allowed unit cards have a subtype corresponding to the unit's position in the team (i.e. Altagiin Tomorbaatar is a human athlete chaser as opposed to just human athlete like he is in other formats). Each player has a goalpost where the leader's portrait is usually placed,