This morning I had the pleasant surprise of my Netrunner order arriving.

An even more pleasant surprise was seeing the size of the packaging of each set. The big mostly empty set boxes from the FFG days gone. Now we have deck boxes stuffed with cards. Which I really like. It makes the starter decks in the System Gateway very portable.

Instead you get the rules online, plus have to source tokens from a third party. This later point means the game isn’t very accessible for new players to the game.

Sadly the drawback is where once you got the rule book in the core set and the tokens needed to play. Now you don’t get either.

You can download the rules as a pdf, and like me get them printed out (I used Doxzoo in the UK).

One nice touch is the new player guides to take a corp or runner through learning the game using the starter decks. I’d love these to be available as a pdf too so they can be printed. I like that there is also a video to go along with these starter guides.

I like the included reference cards. Whether it’s a summary of the actions a player can take, to on the starter runner and corp identities the play areas. Plus having a card with the starter decks on is really handy for resetting the decks for teaching new players.

Card quality seems amazing, and the art looks stunning. I believe they have used some of the same artists as FFG did.

Also considering the price of each set is less than £30 they present amazing value.

The only thing you need to take into account as an additional cost is sourcing tokens for the game.

Yep really impressed with the production of these sets.