This is a fusion of a deckbuilding game and poker, but the emphasis is placed almost 70 / 30 on how much you'll be engaging with the games poker vs. deckbuilding mechanics. There is so much more emphasis on getting high pairs or high suits in order to attack and defend, while the custom deck you build to go into each campaign feels like it acts as a supporting role. I got through half of the campaigns offered before I ever changed a card from the starting deck.

So as a deckbuilder it kind of fails to provide really challenging or interesting deck building challenges. Almost anything will work. Combine that with the rather slow progression of unlocking new abilities and cards, and by the end of the final campaign I really only had one viable strategy for the character I was using. There were clearly other strategies based on cards I unlocked, but I didn't get enough of them or the abilities unlocked that supported them. I wanted to explore the class I played with more, but I simply couldn't.

There is a great idea here, but it is a little too underbacked to really call it a "good" experience.

Reviewed on Dec 13, 2023


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