Marvel Snap is the sort of rare game where I feel the need to show it off. Over the holidays, I prodded it under the nose of friends and family members who typically only play a couple of games a year. ‘This is a great time killer’, I’d enthuse. ‘It’s the perfect toilet game’. It is. Bathroom breaks have never been so exhilarating.
Part of this is just a brilliant combination of stuff. Synergy, you know? The MCU might feel like it’s stalling in the public consciousness just a little (over the holidays, I heard a variation of the ‘I was done after Endgame’ sentiment about six or seven times), but Marvel’s characters are now embedded into the public consciousness in a way they weren’t before. This makes the universe far more fertile ground for a great collectible card game than some of its rivals like Magic or WarCraft, which, let’s face it, are for us nerds.