Android: Netrunner is a two-player expandable card game set in the dystopian Android science fiction universe, in which one player takes the role of a megacorporation defending valuable data and the other plays a hacker, called a runner, trying to break in and steal it. It was designed by Richard Garfield with Lukas Litzsinger, Damon Stone and Michael Boggs, and published by Fantasy Flight Games beginning in 2012 as a reimagining of Garfield's earlier Netrunner collectible card game, which Wizards of the Coast had released in 1996. Fantasy Flight Games discontinued the game in 2018 when its license to the Android setting expired, but the player-run studio Null Signal Games has continued producing new cards, organizing tournaments and supporting the game since 2019. The asymmetric structure, in which the two sides use entirely different card pools and win conditions, has been widely praised and studied as a distinctive design within the collectible and living card game genre.
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1. Android: Netrunner (Wikipedia)
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Android: Netrunner is an expandable card game (ECG)
Infobox, Players
Players 2
Infobox, Publication Year
Publication Year 2012
Infobox: playing_time
30-60 minutes
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View the Source2. Android: Netrunner (BoardGameGeek)
- Playing Time: 45
- Designer: Lukas Litzsinger
- Designer: Richard Garfield
- Publisher: Arclight Games
- Publisher: Edge Entertainment
- Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games
- Publisher: Galakta
- Publisher: Game Harbor
- Publisher: Giochi Uniti
- Publisher: Heidelberger Spieleverlag
- Publisher: Korea Boardgames
- Game Category: Bluffing
- Game Category: Card Game
- Game Category: Collectible Components
- Game Category: Science Fiction
- Game Mechanic: Action Points
- Game Mechanic: Deck Construction
- Game Mechanic: Hand Management
- Game Mechanic: Race
- Game Mechanic: Secret Unit Deployment
- Game Mechanic: Take That
- Game Mechanic: Variable Player Powers
- Minimum Players: 2
- Maximum Players: 2
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