GAME, NEWS – 01.12.2025
An Evolving Card Game (ECG) like Silberheim is a distinct type of collectible card game. Read on for the full details.
In the world of collectible card games, there are plenty of acronyms meant to pin down the exact product type: TCG (Trading Card Game), CCG (Collectible Card Game), and now ECG (Evolving Card Game). That's what we're calling our game: Silberheim Evolving Card Game. But what exactly is an ECG?
An Evolving Card Game stands out primarily through ongoing development and expansion—but in a way that's distinct from classic TCGs or CCGs. The goal? A long-term, sustainably engaging play experience. While other games quickly lose their spark and tend to breed boredom over time, an Evolving Card Game creates diverse ways to counter that. It's essentially a Collectible Card Game... but dialed up a notch.
So, what does this evolution—and the "Evolving" part—look like in practice? In traditional Trading or Collectible Card Games, cards are released and mostly stay as they are. Adjustments typically come only when balancing tweaks are needed: If a card's too overpowered or underpowered, the game devs decide on changes. Or they ban it outright. But that kind of change? It's nowhere near enough to qualify as a true Evolving Card Game.
An Evolving Card Game goes far beyond that: Cards evolve, growing more powerful and potent—but not equally for every player. Silberheim Evolving Card Game thrives on personalized experiences. Through complex, computer-driven tracking of your playstyle, Silberheim ECG adapts to individual players. In other words: Your approach to the game directly influences which cards evolve. The underlying mechanics? They stay hidden. Players never know exactly when or how a card might transform—or what they'll need to do to trigger it. But is that enough on its own to sustain tension over the long haul?
Silberheim Evolving Card Game aims higher than that. Evolution is reimagined far beyond simple card upgrades. It's not just the game cards—known as Fragments in Silberheim—that evolve based on your playstyle. The player themselves gains the chance to unfold individually.
You begin as a formless soul entering the world of Silberheim, materializing in a place called the Chamber of Souls. In dream battles, you wrestle for victory or defeat. Armed only with hazy memories of past lives, you have one goal: Life itself. But to earn rebirth on the planet Midoa, you must prove worthy—triumph despite setbacks, master challenges rather than merely surviving them. Eventually, your soul takes shape and regains substance. You alone, through your deeds in Silberheim Evolving Card Game, hold the power to reach your goal and ascend your soul.
The depth of your soul's customization will grow even further down the line. Plans are in the works for Skill Trees in your account, enabling specialization in specific strategies, factions, and abilities.
Sounds pretty fun already, right? Well, we're not at the end of the story yet.
Story is the perfect keyword here. Behind Silberheim Evolving Card Game lies a grand-scale, complex fantasy world—expansive, meticulously crafted lore, an entire cosmos waiting to be discovered. But this world's tale is far from over. It begins in Isdraia, where the current novels and spin-offs centered on Silberheim unfold. Yet this is merely the start of a journey without a fixed destination. With a glimpse at what Silberheim is destined to become, we peer into the future of a story still being written. By you—the players of Silberheim. Your decisions will shape the world and its history as it evolves.
The story and game world, the cards and fragments of your memories, your soul in the Soul Chamber – all of it evolves based on what you do. That’s what we mean by an Evolving Card Game. This is Silberheim.
And even if, as a young and passionate team, our own ambition sometimes gets the better of us and briefly turns from friend to foe, we always give our very best. We burn for this vision and have already been working on it for seven years. That’s why we promise: the tight integration and co-development of fragments, card game editions, lore events, and more is not just meant to create some vague, marketing-driven hype. We mean it seriously.
We’re making Silberheim your world. Are you ready? Then remember.