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Lead a fantasy hero through branching roguelike runs, using poker hands from a standard deck to activate equipped gear in combat.
Released 14 Nov 2022
Poker Hands Power Gear
Read Hidden Enemy Cards
Choose Branching Routes
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.
Developed by Playsaurus · Published by Playsaurus
Themes from a helpfulness-selected sample of Steam reviews, not the aggregate Steam score.
Choose a hero and travel through procedurally generated fantasy routes filled with monsters, merchants, treasure, and events. Each hero brings distinct equipment and abilities to a run.
In turn-based battles, use cards from a standard 52-card deck to form poker hands that activate your equipped weapons and other abilities. Manage your cards and resources while weighing the risks of each move.
Gather and combine items, make route and event choices, and try to survive each run. Unlock additional heroes, and choose between play modes with or without permanent upgrades; daily and challenge runs add alternate rule sets.
Players in the supplied reviews often praise the poker-based combat, the variety of heroes and equipment, and the strategic decisions around cards and resources. Some describe the distinct character playstyles and item combinations as giving runs replay value. The most common frustration is the strong role of randomness, which can make losses feel difficult to prevent; other complaints mention the small starting hand and uneven balance.
Poker Quest is a fantasy game where you battle through a world full of monsters, using a standard deck of playing cards (like the "Queen of Spades") to empower your items in combat. Bigger and better hands can trigger stronger abilities on your items.
Discover thousands of different items and hundreds of monsters. March forward through a huge variety of locations and events in a procedurally generated, high-fantasy world.
Choose one of many heroes. Each hero comes with a unique set of equipment and abilities, to encourage many different play styles.
A deep and interesting world full of Castles, Knights, Wizards, and Dragons. And Poker cards.
Choose whether to play with or without permanent upgrades. (Some would call it roguelite vs. roguelike modes)
20+ unique heroes, and many more to come.
Daily Runs with public stats and other interesting details.
Challenge runs with game-changing modifiers.
Mini-games. Casinos!
Thousands of unique items.
Hundreds of unique monsters.
Poker Quest feels a lot like a deck-builder, but is fundamentally very different. The world map takes inspiration from Slay the Spire, with the intent of providing a great variety of events. The combat is inspired by Dicey Dungeons, but instead of dice, we use playing cards. That is where the similarities to other games end. Poker Quest contains a vast, novel set of game mechanics that centrally focus on the properties of the playing cards.
Some of the knowledge that you may have gained from other card games will naturally carry over to Poker Quest. Additionally, Poker Quest is a game that you can play to hone your skills at determining card probabilities, but while playing a fantasy RPG. With enough practice on the hardest difficulties, the answers to questions like "What are the chances they have a Spade in those two cards?" can become second nature to you. Or you can play on Casual mode and not worry too much about these things.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Achievements | 49 |
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| Controller required | No |
| Website | Official website |
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