Pokitaire (2021)

*informational* Hybrid poker and solitaire + unique - only 1 game mode = An interesting card game that has potential but is pretty basic. Takes about 3 minutes per round and not too much to do after a few rounds. [h1][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/35180752-3-point-play/] Follow our curator for similar games [/url][/h1]

The scoring is broken in the game - it scores from the lowest matching set to the highest rather than the reverse. If you have a full house, it will score it as a 3 of a kind if you don't already have that. If you have a straight flush, it will score it as a straight or a flush if you don't have either of those already scored. I just can't recommend it for that reason. Otherwise, this would be a very fun game.

Pokitaire is yet another mobile/browser app from HH-Games that seems to have been launched on Steam instead of the app stores or the WWW where it belongs. It's a riff on Solitaire where you make poker hands akin to Yahtzee, and you're scored on the hands you make more like Yahtzee. Resolution is locked, and, well, this is a 2D solitaire game and shouldn't be confused with a serious PC game for PC gamers. Given that you can play dozens if not hundreds of card games free on the web and on mobile, it's impossible to recommend any PC gamer pays money for this.

I really enjoyed this game at first, but there is a flaw in the scoring that really messes things up. It comes up with hands that have Aces in them, for example a full house with aces will only show up as three of a kind. There are other examples as well. I contacted the development team, and was informed that no fix was ever going to happen. CORRECTION: I was contacted by the publisher, not the developer. So I have to change my review to negative. Shame, it had potential.

There are too many ridiculous bugs that make playing this more frustrating than fun. I can't recommend it.

https://youtu.be/CRIL0RrCyVQ Amazing setup for a hybridization of two popular game styles that fails to deliver in a fun way. The limited scope of play options makes games feel far too dependent on random luck than player choice.