THE LONG GAMEA
Marvel Snap
Developer Second Dinner Studios Publisher Nuverse Format Android, iOS, PC Release 2022
A progress report on the games we just can’t quit
A tthe time of our review in E379, we couldn’t be sure whether Marvel Snap was a work of genius or simply a compulsion. Months later, having kicked the habit a couple of times and come crawling back, we can see it’s a little of both. But after hundreds of matches, that this tiny game – three lanes, a deck of 12, and still a smaller card pool than Hearthstone at launch – is able to produce moments of surprise at combinations and strategies we’ve never seen before? There’s got to be a bit of genius in there.