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Bought it for poker.
There is no poker.
There is only chaos.
I dont understand the rules.
The rules dont understand me.
Help!
10/10. Ya Joker.

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A bit short in my opinion, which is alright-not every game needs to last 200 hours. But the last segment of the game feels completely disjointed from the majority of the rest of what you've been building for the entire game so far. I thought it was leading into a new area of incremental growth, but it just... ends.

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balatro if it was an idle game :O i enjoyed it but halfway through it has a pretty noticeable plateau

In its current state, no. You quickly (within one hour) feel like you're sitting back just clicking upgrades as fast as possible and that's uninteresting to me. I can fill out the full upgrades tree within 10 minutes of starting a new "run" and then it's just waiting around to get enough money to do it all over again.

Starts way too slow IMO, until you reach the first billion, then it absolutely explodes with two different tech trees, and it suddenly becomes a roguelike where you restart your runs for chips, then trade those chips for different bonuses, which let you start much faster and have more quirks and stuff.

You start struggling to make that first billion, then the further you get you blink and you make a billion a second.

Wish there was a mixed review option though, whereas Balatro's sound effects and music are art, this game's SFX and "soundtrack" (Entry of the Gladiators) is just slowed and played with a piano, plus once you start interacting with all the objects on the table which all have annoying sounds, it feels like a dream I had when I had a fever of 104 and a migraine.

If they just put some effort into the soundtrack and added more unique cards this would be right up there with Balatro. But it isn't an early access game, this appears to be complete, really feels like a missed opportunity.

Mute the sound and play it on a steam deck or have a video in the background, 6/10

UPDATE: Wow once you defeat the jester it really does just... end. You don't even need to finish any of the upgrade trees. Feels like they ran out of ideas.

this game shows great potential, but currently delivers less content and depth than expected. while the core loop is initially engaging, the experience is ultimately short and shallow, leading to very low replayability.


Great concept and satisfying start: the initial hook is fantastic, and the loop is very satisfying for at least the first hour of play.

Production value: the game features great design, it is very colorful, and has a nice sound design. the aesthetic foundation is solid. The sound for cards flipping and landing combos is quite sattisfying.


Too short and too easy: the game pace is severely unbalanced. you get powerful too fast with just a few repetitive steps. there is no time to "plan" a build or a run because you can easily overpower the current run almost immediately.

Overwhelming and unclear rules: the rules are currently scattered and poorly explained. there is simply too little time to understand them properly before the game ends. this forces you to ignore complex planning and just chase high-rarity cards.

Pointless interactions: the few interactions with characters that exist are pointless and not memorable. they feel like filler and add nothing of substance to the gameplay.

Low replayability / no endgame hook: after completing the short campaign, the game offers few meaningful options to continue playing. the only alternative is a timed mode, which lacks incentive because it does not even grant any steam achievements.


keep in mind that this is an incremental game, which by its core design can make progression feel "pointless." however, the idea to combine deck-building with incremental features sounds great and fun. unfortunately, if you are looking for a deck-builder with deep strategic planning, high challenge, and long-term replay value, you will likely find the current offering to be disappointingly short and repetitive.

i sincerely hope the developers expand on the content and balance the progression speed, as the foundation for a great game is clearly there.

It's pretty fun, it's a idle incremental game that uses poker hands and suits to give you points to level up. It doesn't drag on for too long. I just took a while cause I was trying to bank on all common cards for 100x...not worth it. It's a pain in the ass, and it doesn't reward you with enough money to keep removing cards, but either way it's a fun little game.

It scratched the itch I had for other "pokeresque not actually poker" games, but if I didn't have that crazy itch, I wouldn't have continued playing this.

- The quests and in-game achievements felt like they had minimal impact on the game. I never had to care about them to progress.

- The tech tree didn't look like it does in the store screenshots?

- Overstimulating visual clutter and effects, lots of flashing, and all that stuff, with no option to disable them.

- Some of the game mechanics just felt a bit meh... I was under the impression that there would be some stakes. '...give yourself a fighting chance against the Jester', but it was hardly a fight. He wasn't fighting back, so there was no urgency to deckbuild and fend off his attacks or anything.

It is what it is for £5. Would only ever recommend it if you were absolutely desperate for some sort of poker concept in a game.

Visuals: 100/10
Aesthetics: 100/10
Gameplay: 2/10