Faeria

Faeria is a combination of a digital collectible card game with a "living" game board concept. Players in Faeria battle one-on-one against other players or computer-controlled opponents. Battles take place on an empty hex board, with two vying avatars placed on opposite sides of this map; the maps also include four Faeria wells at other corners. Each player starts with a deck of thirty cards.

At the start of a player's turn, they draw a card from their deck and gain three Faeria. If they have control of any of the Faeria wells, by having a creature next to it, they gain an extra Faeria per well. They may then perform one action from their Power Wheel, play any number of cards limited by the cards' Faeria cost and land requirements, and/or move any creatures they have on the map, in any order. The Power Wheel allows the player to either gain one Faeria, draw one card, or to place land tiles onto the game board; this can be either two Neutral (Prairie) land tiles, or one tile representing Mountain, Forest, Desert, or Lake. New tiles can only be placed next to tiles the player previously placed, or adjacent to tiles one of their creatures occupy.

The earliest concepts for Faeria began in 2005, and it has been in constant development since 2010. The game was partially funded through a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign by Belgian studio Abrakam, raising $94,008 towards its development in November 2013. Faeria entered Steam Early Access in March 2016, and had its official release a year later in March 2017. Its first expansion pack, "Adventure Pouch: Oversky" was released in August 2017.

In December 2015, it was announced that Faeria would transition from a "pay once and play forever" model into free-to-play and in August 2016, Faeria officially went free-to-play. On March 30, 2018, Abrakam announced the end of support for mobile versions of Faeria and a transition from free-to-play back to a buy-to-play model. Free-to-play officially ended on July 18, 2018, with the release of the Fall of Everlife expansion.