Marvel Snap

Marvel Snap is a lane battler card game. Players each have a deck of 12 cards, and each card depicts a Marvel character with cost, power level, and generally a special ability. At the start of each round, both players are able play one or more cards face down on one or more locations. Playing cards costs energy; each player starts with one energy for the first turn, and their capacity increases by one each turn after, allowing them to play more expensive cards.

Locations are randomly assigned for each match, and revealed one by one in the first three turns with each location having a unique effect. At the end of each round cards are revealed and the special abilities of cards trigger. Whoever has the highest power at a given location wins that location, and the player who wins two out of three locations after six rounds wins the game.

Marvel Snap is the debut game from Second Dinner, a game development studio founded by former Hearthstone developers Hamilton Chu, Ben Brode, Yong Woo, Jomaro Kindred and Michael Schweitzer.

The developers stated they used a "grocery cart" approach when designing the game, taking partial inspiration from multiple games, including Clash Royale, Backgammon, and Paul Peterson's Smash Up. A key aspect of development was attempting to create a deep game without introducing complicated game mechanic; developers found that the doubling "Snap!" could provide significant opportunities to bluff and counter-bluff in the game. The game originally had a significant plot, but developers were not able to find any compelling story and decided complete removal of story altogether was preferable to a poor story interrupting the game.

According to the review aggregator website Metacritic, Marvel Snap has received "generally favorable reviews".

In a review, GamesRadar+ noted the game is angled towards "a generation of players too distracted to keep track of an overly complicated metagame," while praising its approachability and replay value.