Card Engine

About

"Card Engine is a user-friendly game design software that allows you to create your own card games with ease. It features an intuitive interface, a library of licensed stock images for commercial and personal use, and the ability to import your own images and fonts. Organize your decks and cards with drag-and-drop functionality, and export your creations as PNG, JPG, PDF, or XML files."

Genres & Tags

Play Modes

Single-Player Play through the game's story or campaign solo

81%

Audience ScoreBased on 16 reviews

gameplay1 negative mentions

The software is user-friendly and allows for easy card creation, making it accessible for beginners and casual users.
The developer is highly responsive to feedback and quickly addresses bugs, which enhances the overall user experience.
It offers a good range of templates and assets, making it a solid choice for prototyping and creating custom cards for tabletop games.

The software lacks some essential features and usability improvements, such as the ability to import CSV files for bulk card creation and a color picker.
It is not yet suitable for serious game designers looking to create complex or commercial projects due to its current limitations.
Some users find the template creation process confusing and the layering system unreliable, which can hinder the design experience.

gameplay
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The gameplay of the product is currently lacking, particularly for serious tabletop and card game designers, as it struggles to support large-scale or complex game mechanics effectively. Users do not recommend it in its present state for those seeking a robust design tool.
- “However, it is over halfway through the early access period, and in its current state, I could not recommend this product as a specialty tool for anybody serious about tabletop game design or card game design, as it would likely struggle to properly create any large-scale or mechanically intense game that relies a lot on the features I outlined above.”
grinding
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Users find the grinding aspect of card game development to be tedious and off-putting, which has deterred them from pursuing their projects.