Card Shark

released on Jun 02, 2022

Card Shark is an adventure game full of cunning, intrigue, and delectable deceit. Enter a world where you’ll need to play your opponents better than you play your cards. Cheat your way to the top of 18th-century French society. Master deceptions using card marking, false shuffles, deck switching, false deals, and more! Use your ill-gotten gains to buy your way into the closed world of high-stakes tables. Card Shark is a new adventure that’s all about playing your cards right.


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After a dull opening act spent cleaning tables, the playpen made of WarioWare busywork gives way to la terreur when suddenly you're left to your own devices, combining the comte's mega-microgames into tangible thoughtlines that video games don't often afford us; now we're suddenly playing with the cards adults use!

Later sections often take a psychic toll upon the gamer's undeveloped brain, and it's only right that a game about the pyrrhic toll of cheating eventually becomes so mind-destroying that you end up looking at videos showing you how to cheat at cheating - any% WR for this game is just a guy turning on cheats and then letting the dialogue roll for 50 mins.

Don't want to spoil the potential endings for anyone (because this game is hinging quite a lot on its so-so-story), but I'm glad the developers were following my train of thought as it pulled into Epilogue Station. Bravo gentlemen! The first person to combine this gameplay with an existing card game is gonna clean out the gambling hall. I wanna slip-cut a Pot of Greed into a Yu-Gi-Oh draw deck while sipping a glass of Gamer Fuel.

I LOVED this game. One of my favourite tropes in books/TV shows/movies is the con artist character.

Here, you have a whole group of them, teaching you how to do REAL tricks and cons, with cards, coins and more, to rake in some money.

It doesn't stop there though, this is actually, primarily, a game about the story, which is a masterful alternate history tale with political intrigue and drama that could rival game of thrones.

The art style put me off at first, but along with the music, it really serves to just suck you in to the story and I now think it is fantastic.

This is vastly underrated and one of my favourite games.

Scamming French royalty out of money using card tricks. Mostly feels and plays like nothing more but a collection of mini games (because it is), but expects you to combine different tricks more freely towards the end. That extra agency does make you feel like you ve come a long way and are now coming up with your own new card tricks, quite satisfying.

Narrazione, design, storia e concept incredibili a mio parere, purtroppo certe dinamiche con la tastiera a me risultano fin troppo rocciose rendendolo inutilmente tedioso. Rimane comunque una perla

Es un juego que te permite hacer trampas sobre hacer trampas con las cartas. Simplemente brillante