Card Shark

Great game, but two of the achievements are broken. :c

Great game, makes me think, concentrate and remember a lot of things at same time. That should be in a school play program to increase attention span. Game is must try on controller. I’m playing on SteamDeck and it is so funny read dialogues even if you failed trick and see that reaction. Also protagonist dumb (doesn’t speak) and can answer only by making faces, lol Also there is no card games, it is all 48 different mini games where you cheat and move hands and cards around to trick everyone as con-artist

Fun lil puzzle game with a unique concept. Don't play it if you like poker, it'll be boring.

touch and controller are both unusable at points, turning a good game into a disappointment.

Boring gameplay of obtuse QTE sequences, where you have to keep many very similar steps and rules in memory all the time. I was playing on the default medium difficulty, and the sheer amount of indistinguishable scams and cheats you are supposed to do just overwhelms you. Card Shark forces you to focus on cards, so you don't focus on what little narrative is going around you. Though I can't say there is much of it anyway, it seems to be there just as a tool to move the gameplay scenarios forward. There is no good hook, narrative is almost nonexistent, characters are bland, dialogue is uninspired. But the worst part about this game is that you do not feel like you are playing cards or cheating for that matter. Just playing some poorly implemented QTE over and over again, made harder by being deliberately obscure about which button to press when. If you manage to somehow get it right and not get lost in the poorly explained sequences of the cheats, then you will be "rewarded" with a short generic dialogue about a plotline that fails at making you invested. I couldn't care less and stopped playing in the second chapter. What a slog.

Quick Time Events: The Game. Is the title I'd like to jokingly give it. Your reaction time and how quickly you can perform practiced motions are the main meat of the gameplay but it has other charms. The soundtrack is pretty nice and the story is compelling. It can also serve as a primer on learning card tricks. Overall, a pretty solid game.