Poker Squadrons
Purple Island · 2021 · Casual, Indie, World War II, Card Game, Solitaire
PC
Positive88% · 17
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About Poker Squadrons
Poker Squadrons is a single-player card game where you play out the events of the Battle of Britain.
You take control of a British Royal Air Force Fighter Squadron and are pitted against a computer opponent controlling the German Luftwaffe.
Both sides draw cards from a shared 52-card deck to simultaneously assemble 4 poker hands to send into combat.
The shuffled deck and opponent's AI ensure a unique challenge each time you play.
Poker Squadrons brings you back to 1940, when Germany launched Operation Sea Lion, their plan to invade Great Britain. Events from the historic aerial battle are presented in the game's 18 stages, which are played in 4 phases:
1. Scramble: Draw cards to assemble the best 4 poker hands possible.
2. Secret Cards: Play a secret card increase your chance of victory in combat. NOTE: This phase is not available until stage 3.
3. Form Up: Drag to reorder your assembled poker hands to match up against the incoming poker hands, some of which may contain hidden cards that remain face-down until the combat phase begins.
4. Combat: You must win at least 3 out of the 4 poker hand matchups to clear each stage.
You take control of a British Royal Air Force Fighter Squadron and are pitted against a computer opponent controlling the German Luftwaffe.
Both sides draw cards from a shared 52-card deck to simultaneously assemble 4 poker hands to send into combat.
The shuffled deck and opponent's AI ensure a unique challenge each time you play.
Phases
Poker Squadrons brings you back to 1940, when Germany launched Operation Sea Lion, their plan to invade Great Britain. Events from the historic aerial battle are presented in the game's 18 stages, which are played in 4 phases:
1. Scramble: Draw cards to assemble the best 4 poker hands possible.
2. Secret Cards: Play a secret card increase your chance of victory in combat. NOTE: This phase is not available until stage 3.
3. Form Up: Drag to reorder your assembled poker hands to match up against the incoming poker hands, some of which may contain hidden cards that remain face-down until the combat phase begins.
4. Combat: You must win at least 3 out of the 4 poker hand matchups to clear each stage.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
If you like card games you are getting plenty of value for your money at the 99 cent price point. Would like to see development continue because this tittle does have more potential.
Great challenge and interesting and creative way to play hands of popker.
Super fun card game with an excellent theme and graphics! You try to build the four best hands as cards are revealed one at a time. These will go against the enemie's four preconstructed hands. You mostly know what you have to beat, but the enemy can have hidden cards or special cards. Well, you get special cards two. When you make your four best hands, you choose which of your hands goes against which enemy hand. If there are hidden cards, you take a chance. Sometimes putting your best hand will help. Sometimes you put your worst hand there so that you can at least win the other hands. Your call. All cards are revealed, and the best hand wins! Playing the game multiple times unlocks special cards for you to use in other games, and there is a puzzle at the end which gets pieces unlocked. Plenty of game here, and I have only just started... Personally, I am hoping for the RAF to win. Again.
Some interesting ideas like the bonus cards of the observer corps to reveal the opponent's hands and the ack-ack to destroy some of their cards, along with Stukas removing some of the places you can play cards. But the pace of the game is a bit slow and it's a bit long for what it is. The graphics are a bit odd, having women pilots (for example) during the Battle of Britain. Sure, the RAF had women in WWII, but they weren't front-line fighter pilots in combat. And the person giving the RAF briefing looks like a Gestapo agent. Weird. OK for killing some time but doesn't seem to have long-term legs.
Dull, and the only thing "Battle of Britain" about it is (part) of the artwork. You just make poker hands, match them up to beat the other side's poker hands, and then sit and wait for some animations of planes shooting and stuff like that. That's it. Graphics are awful, and feel like someone has grabbed a bunch of resources from various parts of the internet, and cobbled them together, particularly the pilot artwork. One pilot will be an attractive, semi-realistic looking depiction of a woman, and the next might be some terrible cartoony looking person. There's no consistency. (I'm not even going to go into the diversity and feminization going on with that here either) A lot of that would be forgivable if the actual gameplay was more entertaining, but it is not. Refunded.
This is a great game very similar to paigow. If you're a poker fan you'll definitely love this game. Even with just a few changes to the formula it can really change how good certain strategies are.
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