Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth’s card game isn’t just fun, it’s all over the place if our hands-on preview is anything to go by

While we already know that Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth will feature a brand new in-universe card game called Queen’s Blood. It seems that the game is productive, with opponents all over the game world.

In our hands-on with a preview build of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, we got to experience the Grasslands Area, the action RPG’s first open-world zone. In addition to trying out the card game itself, we also saw this in the world of Rebirth is full of Queen’s Blood players. Although not everyone can be challenged to a round, the card game seems so popular that it is reminiscent of Gwent by The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt when it comes to the number of people playing.

Every major city seems to have at least someone who loves Queen’s Blood. The game itself is also a lot of fun. Like it Marvel Snap, the minigame is played in three lanes. The goal is to control the board and claim territory, allowing you to play more powerful cards. You take turns placing your cards, and once everyone has played as many cards as possible, the scores in each lane are added together. Whoever has the most points in a given course gets to add that score to their total, meaning that sometimes it’s worth putting all your eggs in one basket. If you have a greater total than your opponent, you win.

To spice things up, different cards affect the areas around them in different ways, exerting control over the board in interesting patterns. Some cards even have special abilities that can shake things up.