Hearthstone

Hearthstone shuffled cards through the house in 2017, long after Blizzard's digital CCG had rewritten the rulebook. The game had already topped 50 million players by 2016 when we brought it to stream. We watched the card game landscape transform through Blizzard's lens—accessible, strategic, and endlessly iterable. At 408 peak viewers, it showed the staying power of a game that had proven digital card games could compete with physical alternatives.