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Chroma: Bloom And Blight
Chroma: Bloom and Blight is a truly free-to-play competitive card game set in the story-rich lands of Arholt. Every card and game mode in Chroma is free, including all future expansions. Find your hero, build your deck and tell your story...without worrying about the cost of cards.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
What reviewers agree on
66 of the 96 reviews raise this.
“Commits to it's theme about the battle being a retelling of a story. There are no boring or useless cards or cards that are just worse then other cards. You start with every card in the game.”
“edit: development stopped. still a fun free game. + It's neat. + It's free! (like: all cards; just try it) (- it's a bit slow at times, mainly in the menu) Having a card game be free and not pay-to-win/pay-to-play is a…”
“I love this game! It has complexity, and with the free cards I feel like it rewards good strategy, rather than grinding events for cards, or worse paying for it. The artwork is beautiful, the story seems interesting,…”
49 of the 96 reviews raise this.
“I love the concept of a completely free to play card game. Can't wait to sink more hours into this game!”
“Commits to it's theme about the battle being a retelling of a story. There are no boring or useless cards or cards that are just worse then other cards. You start with every card in the game.”
“edit: development stopped. still a fun free game. + It's neat. + It's free! (like: all cards; just try it) (- it's a bit slow at times, mainly in the menu) Having a card game be free and not pay-to-win/pay-to-play is a…”
21 of the 96 reviews raise this.
“First of all, it's obviously incredibly nice to have a TCG come with all the cards "in-the-box". A cosmetics-based monetization is so much more user-friendly than the usual business model. Apart from that, man is the…”
“I love this game! It has complexity, and with the free cards I feel like it rewards good strategy, rather than grinding events for cards, or worse paying for it. The artwork is beautiful, the story seems interesting,…”
“The game is really good! Truly a passion project. I love the quirky early dev art, and all of the art in the game is top notch. It runs off of basic card game mechanics that you are use to if you're a fan of the genre.…”
15 of the 96 reviews raise this.
“edit: development stopped. still a fun free game. + It's neat. + It's free! (like: all cards; just try it) (- it's a bit slow at times, mainly in the menu) Having a card game be free and not pay-to-win/pay-to-play is a…”
“I've seen this game from early concept to day one release and can say it's an amazing game which has flavours that will remind you of other CCG's but with a feeling all it's own. The lore, artwork and mechanics of the…”
“I find it hard to shut down the negative comments, because the game is unpolished and lacks useful tooltips/toutorials. But the positives make up for that, the gameplay is highly enjoyable and the buisness model is…”
13 of the 96 reviews raise this.
“Commits to it's theme about the battle being a retelling of a story. There are no boring or useless cards or cards that are just worse then other cards. You start with every card in the game.”
“I love this game! It has complexity, and with the free cards I feel like it rewards good strategy, rather than grinding events for cards, or worse paying for it. The artwork is beautiful, the story seems interesting,…”
“I've seen this game from early concept to day one release and can say it's an amazing game which has flavours that will remind you of other CCG's but with a feeling all it's own. The lore, artwork and mechanics of the…”
22 of the 96 reviews raise this · 8 of them still recommend the game.
“Releasing a free card game where all the cards are already unlocked is a noble idea. Unfortunately, the year is 2022, and games are competing for a player's attention. I assume that the developers of Chroma have now…”
“No point playing right now, its estreamly buggy, there is lots of cards doing things diferent from their text, there is lots of broken interactions, i mean realy broken its evident that the end efects are not supose to…”
“The strongest point of the game - that all the cards and heroes are immediately available - just means there's no sense of progression. I am just running the same decks against some AI every once in a while (And,…”
18 of the 96 reviews raise this · 14 of them still recommend the game.
“Sadly it is much too glitchy at the moment (best of three seems impossible right now, some edge case units cause glitches like Maul) and the descriptions of things aren't very complete at times. There is also a general…”
“I've seen this game from early concept to day one release and can say it's an amazing game which has flavours that will remind you of other CCG's but with a feeling all it's own. The lore, artwork and mechanics of the…”
“I find it hard to shut down the negative comments, because the game is unpolished and lacks useful tooltips/toutorials. But the positives make up for that, the gameplay is highly enjoyable and the buisness model is…”
13 of the 96 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“No point playing right now, its estreamly buggy, there is lots of cards doing things diferent from their text, there is lots of broken interactions, i mean realy broken its evident that the end efects are not supose to…”
“The strongest point of the game - that all the cards and heroes are immediately available - just means there's no sense of progression. I am just running the same decks against some AI every once in a while (And,…”
“Disclaimer: Played the tutorial and one bot game at the time i wrote this. Pros: -All cards/champions are free, can only buy cosmetics -There are tons of cards and champions (each has unique abilities), e.g. tons of…”
12 of the 96 reviews raise this · 7 of them still recommend the game.
“No point playing right now, its estreamly buggy, there is lots of cards doing things diferent from their text, there is lots of broken interactions, i mean realy broken its evident that the end efects are not supose to…”
“Sadly it is much too glitchy at the moment (best of three seems impossible right now, some edge case units cause glitches like Maul) and the descriptions of things aren't very complete at times. There is also a general…”
“The strongest point of the game - that all the cards and heroes are immediately available - just means there's no sense of progression. I am just running the same decks against some AI every once in a while (And,…”
9 of the 96 reviews raise this · 8 of them still recommend the game.
“First of all, it's obviously incredibly nice to have a TCG come with all the cards "in-the-box". A cosmetics-based monetization is so much more user-friendly than the usual business model. Apart from that, man is the…”
“edit: development stopped. still a fun free game. + It's neat. + It's free! (like: all cards; just try it) (- it's a bit slow at times, mainly in the menu) Having a card game be free and not pay-to-win/pay-to-play is a…”
“Review based on a small amount of playtime. The gameplay is good, build heavily on top of magic and hearthstone. As a veteran gamer it was easy to learn. Game include a tutorial. The graphics are pretty. The client is a…”
Counted across 96 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 77.7% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“I'll try to be brief, but TL;DR: I highly recommend anyone who sees the game gives it an honest shot. First: COMPLETELY free to play. Entirely. You get all the cards, all the Heroes, everything. Experiment at will; this game is your sandbox. Second: the mechanics are top notch.…”
— a player, Steam review · 29 hrs played“ALL the cards are free. ALL of them. I've played Yugioh, Hearthstone, Shadowverse and I can't play any of them past them for long because you have to pay extortionate amount of money for the cards. Though there are still some rough edges, Chroma: Bloom And Blight is an amazing…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“I.. guess this is dead? I load in, get a a firewall access request by "Epic Games" [what happened to the Clarity games and WhisperGames listed as developer and publisher?], and then load into the game. The only options are Casual, Ranked, Bot, and Tutorial. Well... that's hugely…”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs playedLatest official news
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NEW CARDS!
Todays patch adds 10 new cards into Chroma. All these cards are of course freely available to everyone. The cards are: Upon Thy Soul Cinder Eddy Unhallowed Ground The Charred Witch Dance Reminiscence
Missing tutorial text bug fix
Sometimes the tutorial wouldn't load in properly, showing no text to the players. This bug was very tricky to find since it doesn't show up in the engine. We hope we got it though. Apologies for the i
Patch 13.02.2021
Balance patch to prepare for the upcoming tournament. Check the announcements channel in Discord for more information. Harbinger Primary no longer activates instantly when triggered by Ghror Battle St
Patch 10.02.2021
Added a second tutorial. This tutorial focuses mostly on mana costs but also covers a variety of different topics. UI bug fixes: Knife Made Wise Companion position bug; tooltip length setting resettin
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Casual, Free To Play, Indie, Strategy |
| Player tags | Casual · Card Battler · Trading Card Game · Turn-Based Tactics · PvP · Card Game · Competitive · PvE · Board Game · Tabletop · Turn-Based Strategy · e-sports (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · In-App Purchases |
| Languages | English, Simplified Chinese |
| Official site | https://www.claritygames.de/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: 64-bit Windows 7 / Windows 10 Processor: Intel Core i5-2300, 2.8 GHz or equal equivalent Memory: 6 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 660 or equal equivalent DirectX: Version 11 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 8 GB available space