The Bazaar Open Beta is finally approaching! Market stalls should open world-wide after today's patch, over 4 months after the Closed Beta.

  • Downtime for the patch will start at 12:00 PM EST // 5:00 PM GMT (source).

More from the founder, Reynad, here. He talks about how excited he and the team is for being able to open the gates to the game for the general public. And hopes that servers will withstand the influx of new players :)

What Is The Bazaar?

It is a free-to-play Hero-Builder, basically an auto-battler, where you pick a Hero to start with and your goal is to build a strong board to combat other players or AI.

The game pace is broken down into in-game days each consisting of several hours, and every hour, you get to either fight an AI, player, or pick from three choices, nodes, to visit a vendor or a (random) encounter to customize your board or skills and tailor the build you want to make, or discover a new one and make a hard pivot. The decision is yours.

There are hundreds of items and skills in the game and some of them are tied to specific characters, or even AI monsters, which creates a fresh experience every time you start a run. Getting a specific and powerful items and skills combinations can make for truly memorable runs.

For our Hearthstone audience, think combination of Hearthstone Arena, Mercenaries, Duels and Battlegrounds :) And it works!

First Open Beta Patch (0.1.8)

Reynad goes over new features, card expansions, monetization options, change to the "start of the run" phase and other tweaks and balance to existing characters.

Have you been playing The Bazaar in Closed Beta? Tell us what you think about the game! Or have you been lurking in the shadows of youtube watching others play like me and cannot wait to sink your teeth into the game? What are you most excited about? Tell us in the comments below!