Poker Quest: Swords and Spades on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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Poker Quest is a fantasy roguelike where players use a standard 52-card deck to take on fierce enemies in epic battles. Featuring over 20 unique heroes, thousands of items, and deep gameplay that will test even the most experienced players.

Poker Quest: Swords and Spades is a deckbuilding, roguelike deckbuilder and card battler game developed and published by Playsaurus.
Released on November 14th 2022 is available in English on Windows and MacOS.

It has received 674 reviews of which 588 were positive and 86 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.2 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Poker Quest: Swords and Spades into these genres:

Deckbuilding Roguelike Deckbuilder Card Battler Card Game Rogue-lite Rogue-like Turn-Based Strategy Replay Value Singleplayer Mouse only Procedural Generation Strategy RPG Medieval Difficult Turn-Based Combat 2D Dungeon Crawler Indie RPG

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7
Processor: Intel® Core™ Duo 2.4GHz or equivalent
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: 2006 or newer graphics card.
Storage: 1 GB available space
Sound Card: Any sound card.

MacOS

OS: Mac OS X v10.6, and above
Processor: Intel® Core™ Duo 2.4GHz or equivalent
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: 2008 or newer graphics card.
Storage: 1 GB available space
Sound Card: Any sound card.

User reviews & Ratings

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Jan. 2025

This is a phenomenal, unique, and underrated game that can be replayed endlessly, but you must accept and enjoy it for what it is, rather than comparing it to superficially similar games. The developers perfectly explain this: "Poker Quest feels a lot like a deck-builder, but is fundamentally very different... contains a vast, novel set of game mechanics that centrally focus on the properties of the playing cards." Really it's not a deck builder at all, but a kind of dealer's choice poker game where each (combat) round's format is determined by the enemy you are battling. You don't build a deck, but rather optimize a character, whose skills, stats, and equipment, combined with the enemy's, form the ruleset for these rounds, and thus change dramatically through the course of a run, and between runs. Unlike most generic rogue-likes or deck-builders, where choosing skills, equipment, and cards IS the game, and decisions in combat itself are often little more than perfunctory proofs of your build, in Poker Quest your build merely determines the mechanics and parameters of a combinatorially rich card game, which you then have to skillfully compete at by drawing and playing cards using probabilistic principles typical of strategies employed in traditional card games. If you have no interest or facility with this latter aspect, then you are apt to fail or simply not enjoy the game. For this reason I suspect it will be far more appealing to those interested in poker, bridge, or skat than to the average slay the spire player. Playing your hands is the meat of the game, and although you can choose more "autopilot" characters and load-outs to reduce the complexity of your choices and speed through battles, this can mean sacrificing opportunities for an edge and exposing yourself to more random losses. Since heroes and equipment fundamentally alter the rules, rather than simply modifying stats, each character and build feels deeply distinct and uses completely different strategies in a way that stands out from any deck builder or CRPG I've played. And I much prefer the vehicle of standard playing cards for conveying randomness, which has been familiar, tried and true for centuries and across continents, rather than yet another statistical invention of some game developer. The game can be played as casually or as brutally as you like depending on the mode you select and whether you take a smaller win or "raise the stakes" to reach the final boss, and as with any traditional card game, you can occasionally find yourself in situations you just can't win. But I quite enjoy losing and improving at this game, which is to me an essential mark of a good one.

Aug. 2024

The game is really challenging, the maps are random, and strategy is a key factor. All things I look for in a game. Also, the game is turn based so you can play while watching a movie. Great casual game.

July 2024

Lots of fun, very addictive. RNG can be a bit much at times, but that's kind of expected with the genre.

June 2024

I started playing this game on kongregte when it was still in development, to see how well of a game it has turned into seeing its improvement over the years amazes me. Came in not knowing a single thing about poker, left a gambling addict.

May 2024

I played this game back in the early stages, and it was already fun then; now it's far more polished, with a wide character class pool and multiple game modes for tons of replay value. My experience with most roguelike gameplay loops (like StS) is that you're basically at the mercy of RNG for the big character build stuff, while the in-combat decision-making is mostly trivial busywork where the best move is quite obvious in each situation. Poker Quest, by contrast, gives you plenty of options at each stage of character advancement so you still feel pretty in control of your character, and more relevantly has actual important and unclear choices to be made turn by turn, so when a strong character falls or a weak one pulls through, it feels like your doing rather than the way the dice fell. scrapping Duke is top ten anime betrayals

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14.79€

8.2

588

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Developer

Playsaurus

Publisher

Playsaurus

Release 14 Nov 2022

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