Poker Hands

A very interesting game of poker combined with puzzle mechanics. It has a relaxing atmosphere but requires reasoning to solve each challenge. Game very good.

I really wanted to like this game, but it's honestly not very user friendly. I spent the first couple of minutes trying to figure out the controls for the game, which it turns out are just the arrow keys - no biggie, there. The problem is there are absolutely no instructions beyond a pop-up cheat sheet that tells you the terms for the different hands you can assemble. With a little polishing this could be really fun, but it would definitely benefit from a basic tutorial to get you started.

I do like the concept of this game, but the reason I am not recommending it, is how insanely easy and quite short the game is. I flew through all levels (well... Except level 45... Darn you 45...) so I didn't really feel challenged or puzzled, but rather relaxed playing this. Recommended? Yes No ✅️ Story Amazing Great Good Poor Bad Not much of a story really✅️ Graphics Realistic Great Good Decent✅️ (not many graphics I suppose, but taken in consideration what the whole game is, the graphics are alright) Poor Bad Playtime Tiny (<1 hour)✅️ Short (1-5 hours) Medium (5-15 hours) Long (15-30 hours) Longer than 30 hours DLC without additional playtime Replayability Low ✅️ Medium High DLC without additional playtime Completionist Unmissable✅️ Easy, but missable Decent Hard Impossible solo Well, Good Luck No achievements Mature content: Nudity or pornographic content Violence Horror Foul language None ✅️ Value vs. Price More value Perfect Less value✅️ Steam Deck Compatibility: Works great out of the box✅️ Works with a bit of tinkering Doesn't work well Haven't got it working at all

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Niemand erklärt einem am Anfang die Steuerung, man fuchtelt wild mit der Maus umher, um dann festzustellen dass das Spiel ausschließlich per Pfeiltasten gesteuert wird. Außerdem sind die Level teilweise sehr komisch sortiert. Es kommen einfache Level und sie werden etwas schwerer, dann kommt ein Level an dem man unfassbar lange sitzt und auf einmal ist danach wieder ein total einfaches. Der Schwierigkeitsgrad ist meiner Meinung nach also nicht steigend. Ich wollte dem Spiel eine Chance geben, allerdings konnte ich es nicht so sehr genießen. Wenn es einen 'Ausgeglichen' Button gäbe, würde ich den wählen aber so empfehle ich es leider nicht weiter.

I like the UI and music, and it is a nice experience to start, but I have mixed feelings about this game. The mechanics are new to me in that the sliding mechanism used affects the whole tableau at once with new cards coming into the game on a rotating entry point that alternates bringing cards in from the sides. On the one hand, this is a neat form of goal-oriented solitaire using poker rules. It's like Tetris though too in that the playing field can fill up with garbage hands that had no value. Using those mechanics, I wish there would be an open play mode where you could play for any poker hands you wish and earn points according the the difficulty/rarity of each (pair vs. straight flush, etc.). It could also allow the player to choose the tableau configuration, and then there could have been high score tables for each, etc. See the possibilities? It doesn't allow any of that. So, take these neat mechanics in a game with competitive possibilities similar to Tetris, and now frame it as puzzle game. ::sad clown sound:: So, what we're left with here is a solitaire game that's framed like a puzzle game, but because you cannot see cards ahead in the stack, you really cannot do any pre-planning. At least not until you try the combinations of movements that reveal the cards around the edges. Now, you can do some pre-planning but only with enough trial and error, and only if you care to remember or write down all the edge cards so you can get a proper sequenced planned out to solve the puzzle. Yeah, that's not a fun time; at least not for me. You can see I'm torn with this game. On the one hand, we've got a nice little solitaire-like game, that doesn't let you really play solitaire framed as a puzzle-like game, that isn't well done as such either. Personally, I think this has a lot of potential, but the current version doesn't quite get there. This is thumbs-up for me, but only because this is quite inexpensive and it does after all serve as a proof of concept of a potentially much better game, which I do hope they make at some point.