F2P-friendly with enough effort
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews
“I currently own every card in the game, still have over 100,000 liquefy, and I’ve obtained 6 premium leaders just from opening packs.”
Steam review · 435.7 h played ↗
Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Mostly Negative · 27%Mostly Negative · 27%Cygames, Inc.2025Card Battler · Deckbuilding · Strategy
Free to play
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 2 h ago
The verdict
Fast, flashy anime card battler with great art and a fun evolve mechanic, but a stingy card economy, costly cosmetic gacha and a stale, burst-heavy meta hurt it. Skip it if you want quick F2P deckbuilding.
Great for
Patient daily players who like fast anime card battles and will focus on one or two decks
Main risk
Slow, costly card collection (no liquefying under 3 copies) leaves you facing stronger decks
What changed in the last 30 days
15 recent reviews
Steam shows recent reviews at 35% positive versus 29% overall. The few recent positive reviews say the economy is fair or F2P-friendly, but the sample is small and the reasons are not clear-cut.
15 recent reviews
What players love
Fun, fast gameplay with evolve mechanics
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“Games are fast-paced, with even control decks usually having a proactive win condition”
Steam review · 662.9 h played ↗
Beautiful art, animation and voice acting
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“The game is beautifully designed, voice-acted, and animated.”
Steam review · 662.9 h played ↗
Lots of PvE and event content
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“Content is huge both PvP and PvE !”
Steam review · 10 h played ↗
Free decks, simplified mode and tutorials help newcomers
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 positive reviews
“the game's new Simplified mode gives you the entire first set”
Steam review · 108.6 h played ↗
Shadowverse Park social hub
Mentioned in ~1 in 38 positive reviews
“Interaction: Unlike the lonely menu screens of the old game, you can actually see and interact with the community here.”
Steam review · 137.6 h played ↗
What players complain about
Stingy economy, hard to build decks
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“It takes 52500 vials to craft all of them, you get around 10-15k within 2 months which is the duration of a set”
Steam review · 4.1 h played ↗
Stale, burst-heavy meta with little interaction
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“from Spamslop, to Rushslop to Stormslop.”
Steam review · 365 h played ↗
Original Shadowverse shut down, nothing carried over
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“everyone who played the original game for years can't even transfer all their owned leaders and everything they own already”
Steam review · 0.1 h played ↗
Greedy cosmetic gacha and leader prices
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“Each individual exchange ticket has a 0.015% chance of appearing in a card pack.”
Steam review · 20.1 h played ↗
Can't liquefy cards until you own 3+ copies
Mentioned in ~1 in 10 negative reviews
“You aren't allowed to liquefy cards unless you have 4 copies of them. First Shadowverse game didn't have this restriction.”
Steam review · 2.9 h played ↗
Connection errors and region lock issues
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 negative reviews
“when in match it keeps disconnecting or stuck on 'Internet connection issues' till the timer runs out”
Steam review · 776.1 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Verified30 GB
Minimum
OSWindows® 11
ProcessorIntel® Core™ i5-8500 Processor / AMD Ryzen™ 5 3500
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsGeForce GTX™ 970 / AMD Radeon™ RX 6500 XT
Storage30 GB available space
Recommended
OSWindows® 11
ProcessorIntel® Core™ i7-10700K Processor / AMD Ryzen™ 7 3700X
Memory16 GB RAM
GraphicsGeForce GTX™ 1660 / AMD Radeon™ RX 6600 XT
Storage30 GB available space
OSWindows® 11
ProcessorIntel® Core™ i5-8500 Processor / AMD Ryzen™ 5 3500
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsGeForce GTX™ 970 / AMD Radeon™ RX 6500 XT
Storage30 GB available space
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