Black Deck is a turn-based collectible card game for mobile, featuring fantasy-themed hero collection and dungeon exploration.
Product velocity
Maintenance
Daily rank 🇺🇸
#94
Games · grossing
Sentiment
4.6
17k reviews
Nemesis
Hearthstone
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
The app removes the cognitive load of manual progression through autoplay features, serving players who want strategic depth without the time commitment of traditional TCGs.
For Fans of turn-based RPGs and collectible card games who enjoy fantasy themes and strategic progression.
Key features
Multi-level dungeon crawl with randomized traps and rewards, encouraging IAP spend on powerups.
Automated battle progression that increases ad-inventory per active user.
How much does it cost?
Freemium model relies on IAP for powerups and collection acceleration within a turn-based RPG framework.
Velocity
Maintenance developmentnew contentcompetitive featuresseasonal eventsShow more...
With no releases in the last 223 days, the app has entered a state of maintenance. The development history shows a period of activity in late 2025, but the lack of any recent patches indicates a significant decline in momentum. The final active period focused on seasonal content, new dungeons, and card collection expansions, but these efforts have since ceased.
Who built it?
SayGames
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Pocket Sort: Coin Merge PuzzleUser Sentiment
What do users think recently?
Review voice lately leans frustrated. Users appreciate strategic card battle mechanics provide a satisfying progression loop for players who enjoy deck building and development team shows responsiveness by implementing requested changes like hero token rewards for season enders.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Strategic card battle mechanics provide a satisfying progression loop for players who enjoy deck building
- Development team shows responsiveness by implementing requested changes like hero token rewards for season enders
- Aggressive in-game pop-ups and store advertisements interrupt the user experience after every menu transition
49 of 49 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Frustrated overall
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Competitive landscape for Black Deck - Card Battle TCG
How's the Games market?
Black Deck holds a #94 Grossing position in the US category, with its ranking volatility signaling difficulty in maintaining player spend against more active live-service titles.
Read the market outlookThe rivals identified
By Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.
Maintains a high-velocity release cadence with eight updates in six months, signaling a robust live-service model.
- Features a deep, established competitive meta with frequent balance patches and seasonal card rotations.
- Supports cross-platform play across mobile and desktop, creating a unified ecosystem for card battlers.
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Key takeaways for Black Deck - Card Battle TCG
Where is it heading?
The turn-based card market is consolidating around titles with high-velocity live-ops, leaving Black Deck exposed due to its lack of recent content updates. Without a shift toward social-retention loops, the app will continue to lose ground to rivals that offer more frequent engagement cycles.
- The seven-month update gap signals a shift to maintenance mode, which will accelerate churn as players migrate to more active live-service competitors.
The SWOT
- Strategic card-battling loop provides a satisfying progression anchor for deck-building enthusiasts
- Implementation of guild-based card trading would address the top-requested social feature
Next best moves
Audit store pop-up frequency because high-frequency ads are the top-cited complaint → reduce session-start churn
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The app's aggressive monetization is not just a…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Cross-platform play (available in Hearthstone but missing here) +1
Since the last report: The app's competitive standing has declined as the seven-month update gap has solidified into a clear maintenance-mode trajectory, now underscored by a #94 Grossing rank that highlights revenue fragility.
Bottom line
The current maintenance-mode cadence and aggressive monetization are eroding the player base, so pivoting to social-driven features like trading is necessary to stabilize retention before the user funnel collapses.
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- [1] App Store, source
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