Press Kit

2018 - First Edition

2019 - Deluxe Edition + The Other Side (Expansion)

2020 - Collector's Box + Ragnarok (Expansion)

2021 - Mobile Version + Wildwood Tales (Expansion)

A SKILL-BASED CARD GAME

You get the accessibility of all the card games you love, but combined with the competitive nature and depth of Chess. There's very little luck involved. Everything will come down to who made the better decision.

UNIQUE "BOARD DRAFTING" GAMEPLAY

Instead of holding a hand of cards, everything happens right on the board. Both players compete for the same deck and the same selection of sellswords and try to assemble stronger combinations of cards than their opponent.

VARIETY AND DIVERSITY

There are many different sellsword characters in the game, each featuring their own unique artwork and special ability! Every match will differ from the one before and you will have to plan out your strategy on the fly each time.

DECISIONS FIRST

The choices you make during a match are what determines your success! The outcome of the game does not depend on who has the "bigger collection" and there are no good or bad pre-determined matchups!

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• "An incredible amount of depth in terms of tactics and strategy!" - Board to Death
• "There's a lot of interesting decisions and every decision really matters!" - Meeple Town
• "It’s a fantastic game, a MOBA in a box!" - The Kwaranteen
• "Your strategy is going to change every time you play!" - Roll For Crit
• "With variability, strategy, and just plain old fun, the two-person card game allows players to bring an exhilarating tactics adventure anywhere in the world." - GameTyrant

More reviews here.

We allow for the contents of Crimson Company to be published through video broadcasting services for any commercial or non-commercial purposes. Monetization of videos created containing assets from Crimson Company is legally & explicitly allowed.

While we love games like Magic: The Gathering, Hearthstone and Gwent, we also see some flaws in them. We think we can do better when it comes to delivering a truly skill-based, yet fast-paced and accessible head-to-head challenge.

Specifically, our design goals were:

• emphasizing strengths while minimizing weaknesses of comparable games
• providing intense and short 1v1 matches
• building the game around an elegant core system
• offering truly skill-based gameplay with luck playing a very minor role
• using fair randomness to make every match feel different from the previous one
• creating level playing fields with no private card collections or pre-constructed decks

Learn more in our behind-the-scenes game design articles:

• Our origins, inspirations and design principles: A New Kind Of Card Game
• Why Crimson Company lends itself to becoming a digital game: Why make an app?
• How the game maximizes the depth of decisions: Game Design Deep Dive - Depth