Parallel digital buying and selling card sport debuts on Epic Video games Retailer

Parallel Studios is launching its digital buying and selling card sport Parallel on the Epic Video games Retailer in the present day.

With a staff hailing from the likes of Blizzard, Epic Video games, Ubisoft, Riot Video games, and Xbox Recreation Studios, Parallel desires to make waves within the card gaming world.

Parallel is a free-to-play digital buying and selling card sport inbuilt a sci-fi universe. Accumulate playing cards, construct decks, and battle your friends in a strategic battle for management of Earth. You’ll be able to mix playing cards from one of many 5 factions and the common pool to create a 40-card deck.

It’s a sport set on Earth, 10,000 years sooner or later. 5 parallel evolutions of humanity combat for management of the planet they as soon as known as residence.

There are a number of factors that separate Parallel from different TCGs within the house (ex. Magic the Gathering, Hearthstone, and so forth.). It’s a free to play title the place gamers can play and earn playing cards. Parallel compensates gamers who play at no cost by robotically getting into them into weekly and month-to-month giveaways each season.

That is on high of rewards gamers can get by in-game tournaments, battle cross, referring pals and profitable ranked matches.

Gamers strategically select which playing cards to financial institution every flip, gaining power that enables them to play models, relics, results and upgrades. Gamers will discover that selecting what card to financial institution and what card to play is important, as the suitable mixture can create a strong profitable technique.

Paragons and factions

Parallel has 5 distinctive factions with 15 sport altering leaders (Paragons) every with their very own lively/passive skills serving to gamers craft a singular play type.

You’ll be able to play at your tempo. Parallel has completely different sport modes for every type of gamers. Rookies and informal gamers can get pleasure from modes like unranked, AI and rookie. Aggressive gamers can take part within the Ranked Ladder and Match Modes to earn unique rewards and prizes.

Based in 2021, Parallel has already seen fairly a little bit of success. Regardless of its TCG being in open beta, the sport has already received a number of sport of the yr awards. The studio not too long ago introduced a prize pool of $500,000 for its 2024 aggressive scene.

Together with that, a number of skilled gamers and distinguished creators who performed Hearthstone have joined Parallel’s ambassador program, priming the sport to be the subsequent massive TCG. Lastly, the studio has introduced that an enlargement set known as Planetfall shall be playable within the sport’s subsequent main replace. It will add over 100 new playing cards to the sport and the studio plans to launch extra enlargement units sooner or later.

“Parallel going stay on Epic opens us as much as thousands and thousands extra gamers worldwide. This enlargement into Epic comes alongside the kickoff of our world aggressive collection, the Parallel League, which has over $500,000 in prizes in its first yr,” stated Franklin Fitch, head of partnerships at Parallel Studios, in a press release. “However we don’t plan to cease there. As we roll out extra methods to entry and play Parallel, we additionally plan to scale our aggressive prize pool into thousands and thousands of {dollars} subsequent yr.”

“Our journey has been nothing wanting extraordinary, and being on Epic marks a big milestone in our world enlargement technique,” stated Sascha M, CEO of Parallel, in a press release.