u/velosofy

Made Balantix, a digital TCG / collector hybrid. Free, browser-only, no purchases.

Every pull is a unique mint with its own serial number and quality grade. The quality float (0-1) maps to a band: Good, Excellent, Near Mint, Mint, Gem Mint, same way grades work on physical cards. >=0.97 picks up the Gem Mint tag and a gold accent across the app. The top three highest-quality copies of any card carry gold / silver / bronze medals on the border, and the medals move if a better copy ever lands.

Holo cards roll a foil pattern + hue locked to their mint, so two copies of the same card never look the same. Legendaries get per-card themed treatments, and there's an off-roster secret-rare tier - one per set, doesn't show in the dex until someone pulls one.

Around the cards: free daily pack, passive regen on your tix wallet, player-to-player trading with no fees or listings, and pack battles where two players wager a pack on whose pull total comes out higher.

Heads-up: it's a collector / trading / battle game, not a combat deck-builder. There's no card-vs-card play.

Free, beta. No NFTs, no premium currency, no real money. Sign-up is username + password (no email/verification needed).

https://balantix.com

Free browser TCG / collector / idle hybrid. Plays in the tab, no install, no purchases. I collect cards myself and the thing I've always liked about physical cards is that the specific copy you pull is yours, nobody else has the same one. Tried to capture that feeling in a game.

Every card you pull has its own unique global serial, plus a quality grade (Good through Gem Mint), plus a small chance at a shiny. Legendaries get their own themed treatments per card, so one might be starlit gold and another might have flames licking behind the art. Other holo cards roll a foil pattern + hue that's locked to their serial. Each set has its own atmosphere on top, like caustics drifting under the underwater set or pollen motes in the garden set.

Around that:

• Passive tix regen, faster as you upgrade your factory
• A free daily pack so you can play without grinding
• Player-to-player trading, no fees, no listings, you negotiate
• A live market feed showing every pull as people open packs

Sign-up is just username + password, no email needed. Optional Discord link for community + event drops if you want it.

It's still beta and plenty's being polished. If you give it a try, I'd love to hear what you think.

I made Balantix, a browser-only TCG / collector / idle hybrid. Free, no purchases, runs in the tab. I collect cards myself and the thing I've always liked about physical cards is that the specific copy you pull is yours, nobody else has the same one. Tried to capture that feeling in a game.

Every card you pull has its own unique global serial, plus a quality grade (Good through Gem Mint), plus a small chance at a shiny. Legendaries get their own themed treatments per card, so one might be starlit gold and another might have flames licking behind the art. Other holo cards roll a foil pattern + hue that's locked to their serial. Each set has its own atmosphere on top, like caustics drifting under the underwater set or pollen motes in the garden set. The market page shows every pull live, so when someone hits a Gem Mint shiny on a high-end card the whole game sees it.

Around that:

• Passive tix regen, faster as you upgrade your factory
• A free daily pack so you can play without grinding
• Player-to-player trading, no fees, no listings, you negotiate

I've been reading the recent slop / scam threads here so let me get ahead of the obvious stuff:

• Free. No payments in the app, ever. No premium currency, no Patreon, no donate button on the launch page.
• No NFTs, no blockchain, no wallet anything.
• No real money in trades. Trades are cards plus a tix tip, and tix only come from passive regen, opening packs, and event drops in the community Discord.
• Packs are tuned to be a slight loss in pure salvage terms, so they're priced for collecting, not for tix-farming.
• Sign-up is just username + password. The Discord link is optional for community + event drops, the game works fine without it.

It's a beta so plenty will keep changing. If you give it a try and have any thoughts, good or bad, I'd love to hear them.

https://balantix.com