description Android: Netrunner Overview
Android: Netrunner is an asymmetric, two-player card game released by Fantasy Flight Games in 2012, adapting Richard Garfield’s 1996 collectible card game. Set in a dystopian cyberpunk future, one player assumes the role of a powerful megacorporation, while the other plays a lone runner attempting to breach the corporation's servers. It utilized the Living Card Game distribution model, offering fixed card contents in expansions rather than randomized boosters, making it ideal for competitive deckbuilders.
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Android: Netrunner ranks #1 of 140 in the Trading Card Game ranking, ahead of Netrunner (Fantasy Flight revival).
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What are the two roles players choose from in Android: Netrunner?
Android: Netrunner is an asymmetric, two-player card game where one player assumes the role of a powerful megacorporation. The other player takes on the role of a lone hacker, known as a Runner, attempting to steal the corporation's hidden agendas.
When did Android: Netrunner originally release?
Fantasy Flight Games released Android: Netrunner in 2012, adapting the game from Richard Garfield’s original 1996 collectible card game. The 2012 version was designed as a Living Card Game to remove the randomized elements of traditional booster packs.
What is the difference between a Living Card Game and a Collectible Card Game?
In a Collectible Card Game like Magic: The Gathering, players buy randomized booster packs hoping for rare cards. Android: Netrunner was sold as a Living Card Game, meaning every expansion box contained a fixed, known set of cards that players could buy once.
What is the cyberpunk setting of Android: Netrunner?
The game is set in Fantasy Flight Games' Android universe, a dystopian cyberpunk future heavily inspired by Blade Runner. Four massive mega-corporations—Jinteki, Haas-Bioroid, Weyland Consortium, and NBN—vie for control against the underground network of runners.
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