Card game Gwent enters open beta phase — it’s essentially launching

One of the biggest challengers yet to Hearthstone’s throne is now available to everyone.

Gwent: The Witcher Card game has entered its public beta test for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Now everyone who wants to try the free-to-play digital card game can download it on those platforms. A public beta for a game like this is basically a launch. You’re playing the full game, but with the understanding that the designers are still tweaking things and could reset your progress. This open beta could also help generate hype for Gwent as it hopes to take a chunk of a digital card game market that market research firm SuperData expects to be worth $1.4 billion in 2017.