Not quite the same but the Netrunner card game is an assymetric hacker vs corp game. It's... being revived via community support and has an active online scene I believe.
Yeah Netrunner was a fun card game, and not really P2W but B2P. You'd buy the set (or expansion) and you and your buddy could play, doing blue vs red and vice versa. The game was fun but also you had to buy it once and that was it. No RNG with regards to packs of cards, new expansions obsoleting your already owned cards, etc. If you want a fun B2P fun card game (with rogue-like elements, which you may appreciate given your comment of Nethack ;), I can recommend Slay The Spire.
Yep, sounded familiar from the Cyberpunk RED game my tabletop group started recently. It's interesting to me how I just never heard of this setting for over a decade of playing TTRPGs and now it's seemingly everywhere.
Just to comment on this, given you mention a year: the game is from 90s and out of print. It is by the same person as Magic: The Gathering:
> Netrunner is an out-of-print collectible card game (CCG) designed by Richard Garfield, the creator of Magic: The Gathering. It was published by Wizards of the Coast and introduced in April 1996.
CCG is a bit of a weird mention, as there isn't the typical RNG involved with buying the cards (like w/MtG) since you buy the entire set or expansion in once.
The game also has a spiritual successor: 'Android: Netrunner' [1]
LeonB|2 years ago
assymetric is when both buttchecks are not perfectly identical.
(Most of my own long term spelling problems are in this same format — I know there’s a double letter, butt I double the wrong letter. (Sorry))
benj111|2 years ago
At my job, this is something we are measured on. ( I work in a call centre, for a government complaints dept)
Fnoord|2 years ago
lcnPylGDnU4H9OF|2 years ago
"The game took place in the setting for the Cyberpunk 2020 role-playing game"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netrunner
Yep, sounded familiar from the Cyberpunk RED game my tabletop group started recently. It's interesting to me how I just never heard of this setting for over a decade of playing TTRPGs and now it's seemingly everywhere.
Fnoord|2 years ago
> Netrunner is an out-of-print collectible card game (CCG) designed by Richard Garfield, the creator of Magic: The Gathering. It was published by Wizards of the Coast and introduced in April 1996.
CCG is a bit of a weird mention, as there isn't the typical RNG involved with buying the cards (like w/MtG) since you buy the entire set or expansion in once.
The game also has a spiritual successor: 'Android: Netrunner' [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android:_Netrunner