In a world where corporations can scan the human mind and interface it directly with electronic data, more data moves every second than was processed in the first five-thousand years of written language. The network is the crux of modern human civilization, and while visionary corporations seek to secure their most valuable data, elite hackers known as netrunners seek to steal it.

Android: Netrunner The Card Game

Android: Netrunner The Card Game

Android: Netrunner is a Living Card Game (LCG) from Fantasy Flight Games. It is a game set in the cyberpunk Android universe. It is a card game for 2 players that takes about 45 minutes to play.

A Living what?

A Living Card Game (LCG) Chummer.. It offers an innovative fixed distribution method that breaks away from the traditional Collectible Card Game model (CCG). While LCGs still offer the same dynamic, expanding, and constantly evolving game play that makes CCG’s so much fun, they do away with the deterrent of the blind-buy purchase model that has burned out so many players.

It means you don’t have to chase rare cards and buy 100 hundreds boosters to find THE ultimate card.

There are NO rare cards and every expansion is a set of fixed cards. This ensures that games are determined by a player’s deck building skills and play strategies, rather than who spent the most money in pursuit of hard-to-find ultra-rare cards. The fixed format means that every player has equal access to every card needed to build his or her deck.

Android Netrunner

Game Play

In Android: Netrunner, each player starts with five credits, five cards in hand, and a set number of actions per turn. Each player seeks to score seven points from agendas, but from there the corporation and runner verge in two wildly different and wholly flavourful directions.

Asymmetrical game play

Jinteki Corporation

Corporations seek to score agendas by advancing them. Doing so takes time and credits. To buy the time and earn the credits they need, they must secure their servers and data forts with “ice.” These security programs come in different varieties, from simple barriers, to code gates and aggressive sentries. They serve as the corporation’s virtual eyes, ears, and machine guns on the sprawling information superhighways of the network.

joker runner

In turn, runners need to spend their time and credits acquiring a sufficient wealth of resources, purchasing the necessary hardware, and developing suitably powerful ice-breaker programs to hack past corporate security measures. Their jobs are always a little desperate, driven by tight timelines, and shrouded in mystery. When a runner jacks-in and starts a run at a corporate server, he risks having his best programs trashed or being caught by a trace program and left vulnerable to corporate countermeasures. It’s not uncommon for an unprepared runner to fail to bypass a nasty sentry and suffer massive brain damage as a result. Even if a runner gets through a data fort’s defences, there’s no telling what it holds. Sometimes, the runner finds something of value. Sometimes, the best he can do is work to trash whatever the corporation was developing.

So you have two different and opposite gameplay a.k.a. ”Assymetrical gameplay”.

I didn’t play this game yet but clearly I really wanna try it. I saw it in different specialized shops in Singapore and you can find a huge list of review on Internet.

Here are some reviews from

• rockpapershotgun.com
• critshappen.net
• boardgamequest.com

And you chummer? Do you know this game and extensions ? Gimme your impressions please I’m eager to know about it 🙂

Netrunner Cards