Poker Clicker

Be sure to try out the new update. It's 1000% better now!

In its current state, I can not recommend this game. Progression is just SO. F***ING. SLOW. I'm creeping up on an hour of gameplay and I've bought a total of 7 things. I'm still not particularly close to a Joker Card. It somehow manages to be mind-numbingly simple yet also there's no sort of guide or explanation on how the game works. What is "Score"? From what I can tell from the community hub it does nothing other than measure progress, meaning the gemstones are completely pointless in early game (?). The only reason I know how close to a Joker card is from reading the dev's posts in the Community Hub.

Best update ever!

2/10 No development within the game and not fun after the first 2 minutes.

No. This game is not good. It is just a simple clicker game with poker scoring for deciding how many coins you get per click. Extremely slow and boring. 0/10. I can't even count cards in this game!

This is very barebones, to the point that there is no game, just a clicker. It's also painfully slow, which wouldn't be an issue if the game kept you hooked for long enough until the next big feature (which I don't even know if there is one at the time of writing). Currently, you're just clicking a card for a long time, while the game doesn't offer you any upgrades until you reach 10000 coins, which is when you can finally upgrade your High Card. There need to be more treats along the way. Speaking of upgrades, the scaling is miserable. You can only increase your reward from drawing each respective hand linearly, and it's actually less than linear because the price increases with each purchase. It doesn't provide a particularly great sense of progression, even if you reach the point where you can finally upgrade stuff. The incremental nature of clicker games is missing completely. Judging from the reward table on the right, Straight Flushes are also really overpowered. I mean, they are rare, but not THAT rare. They are only about 16 times rarer than a Four of a Kind, but pay out 500 times as many coins. I think this is a good thing though, because Straight Flushes should be that impactful IMO. Also, Royal Flushes are less impactful than Straight Flushes despite being nine times as rare as other Straight Flushes. These are a few examples, but it has a few wild implications on what makes sense to upgrade, I think. WARNING: Pointless rambling ahead. [spoiler]A Royal Flush is just the highest Straight Flush anyway. I don't really like when games treat them as a separate hand aside from acknowledging their existence, unless they are a jackpot kind of thing. In this case, Straight Flushes kinda do the jackpot thing better (either Royal Flushes need to be stronger, or Straight Flushes need to be weaker). Besides, it's not like we are listing a "Steel Wheel" (Ace-to-Five Straight Flush) as well, or any other hand with a special name. But I'm just nitpicking about something that I personally dislike. Literally rambling about nothing.[/spoiler] In addition to the coins, there's also a score. It literally does nothing, and there is no ranking system either. These weird gem are also weirdly priced. You would assume that the higher you go, the more efficient the gems become, but the first gem is the only one where you get relatively less score than the others, which are all the same score-to-price ratio. As for the Poker part, I was at least expecting to be able to discard a few cards like in Video Poker or Draw Poker. The lack of such a feature turns the cards into a mere randomizer. Which is literally what cards are, but my point is that you could probably replace these cards with dice, and the only thing that would break is the name of this game. This game is way undercooked in this state. I can't see a reason to play it. Its only useful purpose is not for the gameplay itself, but as a tool for generating samples of Poker hand draws and seeing how often you get which hand.