Addicting, fun, and different. I love it.
The graphics won't blow your mind, there's nothing here that will appeal to the twitch gaming crowd, and it takes a bit a couple wins under your belt to understand what's going on. Much of the voice acting is bad to the point of hillarious, but that might just be on purpose.
That said, once you get enough play time in on this to get the hang of it, it's extremely addicting. It's one of those games that keep you saying "Just one more round and I'll quit, honest." until you look up and realize just how many hours it's really been.
The basic gameplay is pretty straightforward. You go around a board, grabbing up squares while trying to get the right amount of magic to complete the game. So that part is basically Monopoly. You also have a stack of "cards" that you randomly draw cards for your hand and play for various effects which is pretty much any collectible card game our there, or even just the old game of War with a standard deck of cards. Where it becomes crazy strategy is deciding which of your cards to put in your deck, when to play them, and how, and that's the part that gets addicting. Unfortunately, that's also the part that can get confusing and will keep a lot of people from getting far enough along to start enjoying it. Give it a chance, though, and the strategy will start coming to you. Think of it like any other type of game the first time you played it. RPGs and FPS games are at least as complicated as this one is to someone who hasn't played them before.
It's unlikely you have another game like this one buried in your collection unless you've got the previous versions of Culcept but I'll say it's worth the shot. Give yourself a break from Call of Duty or Mass Effect for a bit and give this one a try. Oh, and one little cherry on top to catch your interest. It's price brand new is only $40.