This game is a lot of fun, though it's somewhat random and thus you can feel frustrated waiting for your first win. As with all games like this (where more items are unlocked as you play) it might actually be easier to win early in the game since the number of potential items is lower thus increasing the chances that you'll get a good combination of jokers and other things.

So you might ask yourself, what is this game about? Well, it's a card game where you play poker hands to earn points in the form of "chips" to achieve a set round goal (called a "blind") in a set number of hands with a set number of discards. Each Ante has 3 rounds (Blinds): Small, Big, and Boss. You play poker hands from a deck, discarding cards. The Boss is mandatory, and each has unique challenges (e.g. "Verdant Leaf" prevents scoring until a joker is removed, "The Eye" prevents hand reuse). Defeat each Blind, earn rewards and shop access for Jokers, Arcanas, Planets, Vouchers to buy cards that boost score, discard, or restock, or affect gameplay.

For example, the first round goal is 300 chips and you start with around 3-5 "hands" to attempt to reach that goal. You'll also start with 3-5 discards per round with each discard being up to 5 cards at a time. Your hand size will be around 7 cards to start out with but the actual number depends on the starting conditions given by the type of deck you play. There's 5 colored decks: red, blue, green, yellow and black. Some decks give extra discards, some give extra hands, some give extra money. Each deck presents its own challenge. Once you beat the game with a given deck, you can change the chip color which further changes the game difficulty.

Anyway, as I said, this is kind of random, so you may find yourself losing a lot even if you play the game perfectly. OR You might find yourself winning even though you play really sloppily (If the random seed is just so stacked in your favor) You don't find out the seed until after the game is over though, but if you've ever thought maybe you could have won if you did something differently, then this is a great option. The only caveat here is that you don't unlock anything from playing a seeded game, and so it would purely be for the fun of playing.

There's lots of room for strategy, but since you can buy usually 2 jokers at most per round, you may find that it's difficult to form a good strategy with what you have. One of my favorite combos is to have the four finger joker (allows you to make straights and flushes with only 4 cards) combined with the Square joker (starts with +16 chips per hand played but increases +4 chips for every time you play only four cards) and the Seance Joker (straights or flushes creates a random spectral card). You can see how each card works together, but the odds of these jokers all being available together is slim.

Cards can be modified to have extra effects like +multiplier (+4 per card played), Wild (used as any suit), Bonus (adds +30 chips to the current card value), glass (x2 multiplier but 25% chance of being destroyed once played), Steel (1.5X multiplier added as long as you hold it in your hand and it's not played), and there's more. You can also have card editions (foil/polychrome/holographic etc), and seals applied to the card (small colored circles that give an extra effect to that card under certain conditions). You can also add cards to your deck to have more than 52 cards, or you can destroy cards to have fewer than 52.

The card modifications aren't permanent so you don't have to worry about messing up the deck, but you CAN mess the deck up for your current run. For example, it's possible to change cards so that you have extra cards of a certain suit by changing them from another (e.g. from Hearts to clubs), which can make the odds of making a flush go up for Clubs but down for hearts. There's also a spectral card that will change a large number of cards to be all the same rank (e.g. a whole hand full of 8's) making it possible to get a 5 of a kind.

You don't have to have any special knowledge of how to play poker to enjoy the game as the game will tell you what the hands are as you select it and you'll learn the difference between a flush, a straight, and a straight flush as the game goes on.

In conclusion, if you like games that are both random AND give options for strategy, and you like unlocking new stuff, this game will give you all of that. If you prefer games that rely more on strategy and skill, this will be a bit frustrating for you, but honestly, how many card games are there that rely solely on skill? I think it's a fun game though, and worth the purchase.

This game is a lot of fun, though it's somewhat random and thus you can feel frustrated waiting for your first win. As with all games like this (where more items are unlocked as you play) it might actually be easier to win early in the game since the number of potential items is lower thus increasing the chances that you'll get a good combination of jokers and other things. So you might ask yourself, what is this game about? Well, it's a card game where you play poker hands to earn points in the form of "chips" to achieve a set round goal (called a "blind") in a set number of hands with a set number of discards. Each Ante has 3 rounds (Blinds): Small, Big, and Boss. You play poker hands from a deck, discarding cards. The Boss is mandatory, and each has unique challenges (e.g. "Verdant Leaf" prevents scoring until a joker is removed, "The Eye" prevents hand reuse). Defeat each Blind, earn rewards and shop access for Jokers, Arcanas, Planets, Vouchers to buy cards that boost score, discard, or restock, or affect gameplay. For example, the first round goal is 300 chips and you start with around 3-5 "hands" to attempt to reach that goal. You'll also start with 3-5 discards per round with each discard being up to 5 cards at a time. Your hand size will be around 7 cards to start out with but the actual number depends on the starting conditions given by the type of deck you play. There's 5 colored decks: red, blue, green, yellow and black. Some decks give extra discards, some give extra hands, some give extra money. Each deck presents its own challenge. Once you beat the game with a given deck, you can change the chip color which further changes the game difficulty. Anyway, as I said, this is kind of random, so you may find yourself losing a lot even if you play the game perfectly. OR You might find yourself winning even though you play really sloppily (If the random seed is just so stacked in your favor) You don't find out the seed until after the game is over though, but if you've ever thought maybe you could have won if you did something differently, then this is a great option. The only caveat here is that you don't unlock anything from playing a seeded game, and so it would purely be for the fun of playing. There's lots of room for strategy, but since you can buy usually 2 jokers at most per round, you may find that it's difficult to form a good strategy with what you have. One of my favorite combos is to have the four finger joker (allows you to make straights and flushes with only 4 cards) combined with the Square joker (starts with +16 chips per hand played but increases +4 chips for every time you play only four cards) and the Seance Joker (straights or flushes creates a random spectral card). You can see how each card works together, but the odds of these jokers all being available together is slim. Cards can be modified to have extra effects like +multiplier (+4 per card played), Wild (used as any suit), Bonus (adds +30 chips to the current card value), glass (x2 multiplier but 25% chance of being destroyed once played), Steel (1.5X multiplier added as long as you hold it in your hand and it's not played), and there's more. You can also have card editions (foil/polychrome/holographic etc), and seals applied to the card (small colored circles that give an extra effect to that card under certain conditions). You can also add cards to your deck to have more than 52 cards, or you can destroy cards to have fewer than 52. The card modifications aren't permanent so you don't have to worry about messing up the deck, but you CAN mess the deck up for your current run. For example, it's possible to change cards so that you have extra cards of a certain suit by changing them from another (e.g. from Hearts to clubs), which can make the odds of making a flush go up for Clubs but down for hearts. There's also a spectral card that will change a large number of cards to be all the same rank (e.g. a whole hand full of 8's) making it possible to get a 5 of a kind. You don't have to have any special knowledge of how to play poker to enjoy the game as the game will tell you what the hands are as you select it and you'll learn the difference between a flush, a straight, and a straight flush as the game goes on. In conclusion, if you like games that are both random AND give options for strategy, and you like unlocking new stuff, this game will give you all of that. If you prefer games that rely more on strategy and skill, this will be a bit frustrating for you, but honestly, how many card games are there that rely solely on skill? I think it's a fun game though, and worth the purchase.