Every story mission consists of learning a new sequence of minigames from your mentor, practising it a few times and then doing it for real under some slightly stressful time pressure.įor the chumps you’re taking to the cleaners will smell a rat if you hover the card you’re dealing them over the rather conspicuous mirror on the table for more than thirty seconds. You do your little cheaty thing and then it cuts straight to you raking in coins as if to say “Obviously you won, you were cheating, you were also breathing in and out the whole time and we didn’t feel the need to spell that out, either.” So as I say it doesn’t actually play like a card game, it plays more like something halfway between Papers Please and Wario Ware. The actual playing of the card game we skip past. ![]() A few shitty ones that are little more than quick time events but an otherwise rich smorgasbord of challenges based around observation, memory and refined skill as you use a variety of methods to stack decks and peek at your opponent’s hand. In truth, Card Shark is a collection of minigames themed around a broad variety of techniques for cheating at cards. “Adventure game?” As ever, that’s about as informative as telling us it comes in a box. It is a hard concept to summarize, but come the fuck on. View Full Transcriptīut no, the Steam page is just bad at bringing across what you actually do in Card Shark. ![]() I got my fill of video poker mashing the quickload button in the first Leisure Suit Larry game. I assumed you did from the way the Steam page described it, which is why I was a little hesitant to try it. And things reached a new zenith of weirdness last week when I played Card Shark, a new indie game about card games where you don’t actually play any card games. It’s like using a vacuum cleaner to scare off the family pets while you lick the carpet clean. But now we actually have the technology to visualize an actual big awesome fight between two scary dragons and we’re using it to depict the fucking cards. Card games and board games were invented because someone wanted to imagine a big awesome fight between two scary dragons and cards were the best solution available at the time to visualize that. I just feel there’s something inherently fucked about the concept of card battling video games. Like with last week’s Neon White presenting all its guns as cards even though the only way a tabletop would get anywhere near that game is if it was being used as a vaulting horse. What is it with the indie sphere and card games these days? A few noteworthy card battlers come and go and now tabletop chic appears to be in. We have a merch store as well! Visit the store for brand new ZP merch. Want to watch Zero Punctuation ad-free? Sign-up for The Escapist + today and support your favorite content creators! ![]() ![]() Tap foundation piles to autoplay compatible cards.Card Shark supports Klondike Solitaire, FreeCell, Spider Solitaire, Canfield, Forty Thieves, Beleaguered Castle, Crazy Eights, Draw Poker, and Memory Match.Features include:- silky smooth animations with a tasteful 3d presentation.- photo library support for custom tables and card backs- multiple styles of card fronts, backs, tables- does not interfere with ipod music- left/right handed stock placement- undo/redo- optional vegas scoring- fast load time- sophisticated random number generator capable of dealing billions of unique handsAre you an artist? Contact the author for tools to help you design your own decks.If you like this game, please consider supporting further development by submitting a user review and/or upgrading to Card Shark Collection Deluxe."Card Shark Solitaire is currently the best free solitaire game in the App Store.This week in Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee reviews Card Shark and Postal: Brain Damaged.įor more major games Yahtz has reviewed lately, check out Neon White, The Quarry, Sifu, Hardspace: Shipbreaker, Rogue Legacy 2, and Elden Ring. Card Shark uses an intuitive drag-drop interface and is fat finger friendly - piles are automatically split following a drag-drop gesture.
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