Please make a sequel I loved everything about this game its pure perfection
9.5/10
Loved it
9.5/10
Loved it
It’s solitaire with horse racing and power-ups, but MOSTLY solitaire and trying to beat your best times. Sometimes you fail spectacularly and other times you clutch a victory.
My greatest joy is naming the horses and seeing what names come up in the races. The speed solitaire is fun too, but more as a quick set of puzzles than a game you sit down and play for hours on end.
Fantastic game to play on a lunch break.
My greatest joy is naming the horses and seeing what names come up in the races. The speed solitaire is fun too, but more as a quick set of puzzles than a game you sit down and play for hours on end.
Fantastic game to play on a lunch break.
Este juego es una movida, divertidísimo tener varios caballos, competir, hacerlos criar, el solitario. Es tan simple como adictivo, merece la pena cada segundo que juegues hasta cansarte, de lo mejor que ha hecho GameFreak nunca.
of course, good for what it is, but starts to falter when you get into the weeds of it.
don't get me wrong, this game is great when you're first picking it up! but as you spend more time with it and look to improve and win races more often, you're thrown into a sea of card RNG and systems way more complex than they need to be for a 3ds solitaire game best played in 15 minute bursts. play it for the novelty for a little while but don't feel pressured to "beat" it, which from the 5-10 hours I played over the span of like 6 months seems like it would probably take years to complete at that pace lol.
don't get me wrong, this game is great when you're first picking it up! but as you spend more time with it and look to improve and win races more often, you're thrown into a sea of card RNG and systems way more complex than they need to be for a 3ds solitaire game best played in 15 minute bursts. play it for the novelty for a little while but don't feel pressured to "beat" it, which from the 5-10 hours I played over the span of like 6 months seems like it would probably take years to complete at that pace lol.
Hey game freak you finally got a winning game here that isn't pokemon! Now if you could port it to something that isn't an iPhone...
I have 60 hours on this game.
That should be enough to convince you to play it.
That should be enough to convince you to play it.
It was a game that I liked as a concept, but for me, the gameplay started to get repetitive quickly. It was a game that would be opened every now and then and a few races taken. (The horse talking at the end of each race is extremely annoying)
best pokemon games
Definitely, a unique combination that can be fun in short spurts, but I wouldn't spend an afternoon binging it.
i never got dsware gift cards as a kid so i only ever played the demo of this. i would play the demo the 45 times i was allowed, and then i would redownload the demo. truly deeply great
An answer I'd accept for "what is the best Nintendo game of the 2010s," of which I think the only real competition is Breath of the Wild, and I'd probably take Pocket Card Jockey over BOTW at this point. See, I love solitaire. A lot. And not only is this game an absolutely fantastic version of solitaire, it also contains some of the best writing that's ever been in a Nintendo game of deeply absurd stories. Direly undersung. One day they'll put that iOS one on the Switch and I'll scream to death, come back to life, and play the shit out of it, much like my homie the Pocket Card Jockey does.
It is an incredible game, with a lovely art style and fun gameplay. The only reason as to why I abandoned it is that I fucking suck at solitaire and I was getting tired of everyone being disappointed at me for not winning the races :(
I only have 4 trophies left and probably have another 60 hours spent on getting them. I can do it. This game is so good.
'Pick up and play for like 30 minutes before bed' should be its own genre on backloggd. This and like Planet Puzzle League are probably the peak of that genre.
the fucking game ever
I don't have the mental acuity necessary to comprehend how anyone can come up with such a concept, much less make it extremely fun.
i wish this game hadn’t slipped under the radar it’s really great and weird
Great style, and people love to gush about this game, however the gameplay is not as deep as one would assume, and gets old incredibly fast.
I'm pretty sure I'm awful at this but the charm is so high that I kept coming back to play more. It's nice to see Game Freak do something other than Pokémon as well!
Keep in mind, this review as written as I've completed most of the game's content except for the big final race.
Pocket Card Jockey is a true gem of game design. On the surface, this is a game about doing races over and over again. However, the roguelike-esque mechanic of retiring horses after a certain number of losses, combined with a calendar system that makes so you can miss out on certain races means that the stakes are always incredibly high.
This allows the player to create their own personal narratives with each horse, filled with training arcs, underdogs and redemption. It might as well be the best Pokémon game on the 3DS, as far as I'm concerned.
Pocket Card Jockey is a true gem of game design. On the surface, this is a game about doing races over and over again. However, the roguelike-esque mechanic of retiring horses after a certain number of losses, combined with a calendar system that makes so you can miss out on certain races means that the stakes are always incredibly high.
This allows the player to create their own personal narratives with each horse, filled with training arcs, underdogs and redemption. It might as well be the best Pokémon game on the 3DS, as far as I'm concerned.
Another one of GameFreak’s games that gets overlooked because it doesn’t involve monsters of the pocket variety, Pocket Card Jockey is proof that the simplest mechanics often make the best games. An addictive combo of solitaire and horse racing with charm spilling out of its every pixel, PCJ is one of the few games I would classify as perfect. Not because it’s flawless, but because I don’t know what more you could want out of it.
A very solid and polished experience for its price. The game is adorable and Go Ichinose's music is great as usual. The gameplay has a lot of depth but sometimes I just wanted to play the solitaire portion.
só joguei a demo mas foi tao incrivel
I hate using the phrase “cult-classic” but that’s the best way to describe this game. I finally understand why my grandma liked solitaire so much.
Dril Dozer better be the best game ever made because I've played 3 non-pokemon game freak titles and they were all BORING. Many people refer to this game as being addictive but all the constant, mindless interruptions from the shortest solitaire games you'll ever play put me to sleep, and I'm one of the few people who actually give a shit about solitaire.
Freecell is the best solitaire format, btw.
Freecell is the best solitaire format, btw.
this might just be a perfect video game. fantastic concept and flawless execution. game freak please i need more pocket card jockey
Maybe it's because I'm sick but I have put 7 hours into this in 3 days. It's not just solitaire with horses; there's suprising depth of strategy and lots of moving parts to work with here. It also looks very cute!
best game ever made
This game is so innovative that I honestly don't even know what genre it is. It's a pet simulator. It's a horse racing simulator. It's a card game. It has RPG elements. It has management elements. It's crazy how fun this hodgepodge is.
From my experience, this is a secretly a game about failure and disappointment- not just to yourself, but failing others specifically. I never really managed to get over the initial difficulty curve and win more than a couple of races, and the ones I did win were probably, technically, part of the tutorial, so who knows. It's fun, I think! Imagine a Soulsian "tough love" approach to game design, but there's a tragically well-written cutscene after every death where all your friends and benefactors thinly mask their disappointment in you. I couldn't hack it. Gave up and switched back to pic-a-pix or something.