Poker and Sorcery 12+
Poker based roguelike RPG
Carsten Zeiffert
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Go on a journey and fight monsters... by playing poker hands!
Poker and Sorcery is a turn based single player RPG heavily inspired by an old game called Sword & Poker.
**This game can be played for free with one of the characters. Players have the option to purchase the full game, which unlocks the remaining characters.**
Life in the countryside is upended when monsters start pouring out from an old tower in the mountains. You decide to travel to the tower to investigate. Find new weapons, collect artifacts and learn new skills along the way.
FEATURES
- Fight monsters by playing poker hands on a grid - the better the poker hand, the more damage you do
- Choose between four different classes: Hunter, warrior, mage and rogue, each with different starting skills and weapon proficiencies
- Find over 30 different weapons that inflict various status effects depending on the poker hand played
- Find over 30 different artifacts that help you in various ways
- Made with phones in mind: Short, bite-sized battles in portrait mode to play on the go
- Fully playable offline
What’s New
Version 1.05
Changes:
- Added a local pass and play game mode for two players. Find a friend and challenge them to a match!
- You can now compare weapons on the backpack screen with the currently equipped one by touching them.
- Added support for upside-down portrait mode for tablets.
- When trying to make a poker hand but the cards does not form a valid hand, a message is shown.
Previous changes:
- Weapon upgrades! If you find a weapon you already have, the found weapon will be an upgrade.
Ratings and Reviews
Fantastic game with one problem - leaves you wanting more.
I really like this game, but whenever I finish the tower level, I keep feeling like the game has ended too soon. I wish it was much longer. That said, it may be worth having our character revive at the start of each new world rather than having to start from scratch. My 2 cents. Anyway, I love the game and wish it were longer and harder!
Developer Response ,
Thanks!
I have plans to add an endless chapter after the tower, hopefully around the end of the year. After that I want to add a longer campaign mode, but that will take a long time to add.
Disappointing
The devs have taken a good and clever game and made it boring.
The original presented the player with choices and goals Each level of the game showed player the opponents, and rewards, they would encounter and presented multiple paths to to victory, or defeat.
Players made choices that permitted them to form their character to their own choosing.
This version is a simple trek of kill the next monster and pick a random reward, with very little player agency.
The devs added complexity without preserving playability. Where the original provided outcomes for the full range of poker hands this version reduces variety by lumping the low probability hands into a single outcome, then tags a handful poker breaking cheats as rewards.
It became tedious halfway through the first play through.
Most annoyingly, the game does not allow tablet rotation, forcing play with the power connection at the bottom, precluding playing while connected to a power source.
This app is, at best, a poor copy of a much better game.
Developer Response ,
Hi!
Good point about tablet rotation, I’ll include that in the next release. Thanks for the feedback.
Thank you for making this!
We all know the inspiration for this game and I’ve been looking for poker hand-based battle games for a long time since.
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Information
- Seller
- Carsten Zeiffert
- Size
- 140.8 MB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 12+ Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Copyright
- © 2024 Carsten Zeiffert
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Full Game $2.99