Apocalypse Hunters (Free) is an augmented reality collectible card game that looks to capitalize on the success Pokemon GO (Free) had in 2016, while also injecting a simplified card-battling system that?s strikingly reminiscent of Hearthstone (Free). Here?s what I thought after playing for a couple of days, getting my head around the battle system and tackling the deck building mechanic.

The game begins with an exposition dump set to still cartoon images that sets up the game world. Of course it begins with scientists who decided to play God, and as every Jurassic Park film has taught us, playing God and genetic splicing don?t often go according to plan. A freak accident released all of the Frankenstein’d creatures into the world, and a unique virus along with them. So you as a Bounty Hunter (Not an Apocalypse Hunter") must tame the creatures and cure the virus. So here I was, a brand new Bounty Hunter apparently in a destroyed Earth that feels somewhere between Mad Max and Pokemon GO, sitting in my small apartment in outer Melbourne. Much like the aforementioned Pokemon GO, Apocalypse Hunters pulls location data of your surrounding area and populates a world map that you can walk around and play the game as you go about your everyday life.
This whole conceit is a simple justification as to why there are winged rats and glowing-eyed frogs hanging out on every street corner and lurking down every park in your otherwise normal neighborhood.
Like the dutiful bounty...