Upstream Ante
Michael Richard Lannon · 2024 · Roguelike Deckbuilder, Card Battler, Card Game, Roguelike, Strategy
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About Upstream Ante
Upstream Ante: Unleash Your Strategy in a High-Stakes Card Game!Dive into the thrilling world of Upstream Ante, a roguelike card game inspired by Poker and Texas Hold’em. Strategize, place your bets, and play with powerful hands to outwit your opponents.Master the art of combining standard cards with jokers, buffs, and debuffs to create winning strategies. Earn chips, unlock more jokes, and drive your enemy to bankruptcy to ramp up the intensity. With every hand, the stakes get higher, and the game gets more chaotic. Can you reach intensity level 15 and claim victory?
Choose from 8 different game modes, each offering a unique gameplay experience. Find the mode that suits your style and play your way to victory.
- A challenging yet rewarding roguelike experience with multiple winning strategies.
- Endless possibilities with every upgrade, debuff, discard, angel card, devil card, and joker dramatically altering your game.
- Over 70 unique Jokers and 16 unique Upgrades and Debuffs to add a twist to each hand.
Choose from 8 different game modes, each offering a unique gameplay experience. Find the mode that suits your style and play your way to victory.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Lucky me gets the dubious honour of being the first to review more shovelware... this time, "Upstream Ante". Upstream Ante could be described as Balatro from Temu, but even that is being far too kind... this is a very badly made 1v1 (player vs AI) hold'em poker game with a couple of "gimmicks", eg "angel" and "devil" cards that help or hinder you, and a slew of ridiculous technical problems... like for example the total amount of money owned by both players in a round varies... which means the developer couldn't even work out the mathematics right. Money shouldn't be created or destroyed during a poker game! And that's just the tip of the iceberg... this game is a complete train wreck that doesn't even function properly in the very basic role of being a poker game. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. There's an ugly screen filter meant to make the …12 found this helpful
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