Game Info
Year
2026
Players
2-5
Age
10+
Playtime
40 min
Collection
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Description
A deck-building poker game where players buy supernatural cards and use jokers to bend the rules and win bets
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Board Gaming Ramblings Review at 13:21 sentiment: mixed
video_pk 151892 · mention_pk 425974
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Interesting take on poker
- Jokers add unique abilities and strategic depth
- Enjoyable first play
Cons
- Boring to fold
- The rewards for folding are not good enough
- Players have no agency over when the game ends if others keep calling
- Felt too repetitive
- Took a bit long (90-120 minutes with 4 players)
Thematic elements
- Poker
Comparison games
- Bilatro
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- bluffing — Players may bluff about their hand strength to influence opponents' decisions.
- Card burning — Players can remove cards from their deck.
- Deck Building — Players start with a basic deck and acquire new cards to improve it over time.
- market — A central market allows players to buy new cards for their decks.
- Poker Hands — The core objective is to form the best five-card poker hands to win rounds.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Hello everyone. This is Cinema
- It's not your grandma's word game.
- I didn't have an amazing journey. I had kind of a mediocre journey.
- It's a realtime stock market trading game that plays in about 15 minutes.
- This is a deck builder game. Uh, and you're building basically poker hands.
- It's poker with deck building.
- This is another party game.
- It felt a little too repetitive.
- Maybe it's not your grandma's party game.
- Maybe it is.
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The Dice Tower Review at 1:43 sentiment: positive
video_pk 151342 · mention_pk 424979
Click to watch at 1:43 · YouTube ↗
Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Great components and table presence.
- The core deck upgrading and joker combo creation is very fun.
- The ability to cull cards from your deck allows for good deck molding.
- Visually appealing art and graphic design.
- The game is enjoyable and has potential for growth with expansions.
Cons
- The game can feel 'rich get richer'.
- Too much luck can be a factor.
- Some cards in the upgrade deck are boring (e.g., basic sevens and eights with no abilities).
- Can sometimes feel like there's too much 'take that' or negative interaction.
- Game length can be a bit long, especially with a full player count.
- It's possible to know you can't win a few rounds before the end.
Thematic elements
- poker
Comparison games
- Blatro
- Villagers
- Moons
- A Hell of a Deal
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Betting — Players place bets during rounds, with the winner taking the pot.
- Card drafting/market — Players can acquire new cards from a central market.
- Deck Building — Players start with a deck of cards and can add new cards to it throughout the game, with the goal of making it better.
- Hand Management — Players manage the cards in their hand to form poker hands.
- Jokers/Special Abilities — Special Joker cards can be bought and used for various effects that manipulate gameplay.
- Poker — The game uses poker hands as the basis for scoring and winning rounds.
- Set Collection — Forming specific poker hands (like straights, pairs, etc.) is key to winning.
- Take That — Some cards or actions allow players to negatively affect opponents, such as cluttering their deck or gifting unwanted cards.
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Quotes (from this video)
- I do like the jokers. I think they're interesting and you can make really fun combos.
- My favorite part of the game is the the the upgrading your deck.
- If you like Blatro, you should probably try out Deco. And if you like poker, you should probably try it out.
- This is probably my favorite that I've played so far of those.
- This is a game and I hate to say I'm looking forward to an expansion, you know, the game should be.
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Might I Suggest A Game Top List at 19:13 sentiment: positive
video_pk 151368 · mention_pk 425044
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Gets really weird really fast
- Love it
- Cards have weird stuff going on
- Can make these crazy game-breaking combos
- So much different player interaction
- Makes this game different every time you play it
- Chaotic option is almost always the best option
- Love games like that
- Funny little puzzle
- Really really enjoyed my plays of this game
- Awesome
- Every time I play it, I just can't stop thinking about all the ridiculous stuff that happens and I love it
- Wild off-the-rails expansion
- Broken powers and wild combos
- Really slick production
Cons
- Kind of hard to find right now.
- Sometimes you actually do want to lose a hand because then you get to draft new cards.
Thematic elements
- Batro style pokerlike card game
Comparison games
- Bellatro
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Deck Building — Players draft cards from a common pool and can strategically buy jokers to enhance their abilities.
- Hand Management — Players manage their poker hand and the cards in their deck, deciding when to call, raise, or fold.
- Poker — Core gameplay involves playing standard poker hands to win chips.
- Variable player powers — Jokers provide unique powers that affect different phases of a player's turn, such as drawing cards, thinning the deck, or special betting actions.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- And while I do love getting outside and enjoying the sunshine, you know what I love even better than that? Playing board games, obviously.
- if you want to know what new board games to pick up before we enter into cozy game night season, then might I suggest
- And one of my favorite things about this list is because I played so many different types of games at all these different events this summer, this list has something for everyone.
- And I can't wait to share them all with you. But before we get started, I want to know what your favorite game was this summer.
- And to me, that is a mark of a wonderful game.
- This game scratches that efficiency planning portion of my brain where I just want to find the perfect combo of cards in the perfect order in order to knock out as many minions as I can on a single turn.
- Making this list just made me so excited to play these games again, and that's how you know they're good.
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BoardGameCo News at 12:04
video_pk 122999 · mention_pk 353244
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Pros
- partially through the rules
- hopefully be playing it today if not tomorrow
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Belatro
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Deck Building — Players are building hands from decks of cards.
- Set Collection — The game involves building hands and using jokers, implying elements of set collection.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Asmodee's buying the uh Welcome To brand and the company. Apparently, it has 3 million plus plays.
- Whenever you have like a degree of news in the tabletop hobby, but not in board games. Like none of the board game sites that I've seen have covered this.
- The problem when you're not transparent with your audience, the problem when you let people figure it out and guess themselves, is sometimes they go to 2 + 2 = 4, when really 2 + 2 = 4.5 in this particular situation.
- Steamforged did release an update I already talked about. Yes, you know, we have it covered. Sorry about that. It's going to be taken care of. It's one of those many things that doesn't look good and probably isn't good, but it doesn't necessarily mean that all the boats are falling over at least not yet.
- Got 5 is strangely addictive. I've been playing it so much. It is a little bit insane.
- Overall I thought Opera Magna was very well done.
- I do like it more than White Castle, that's for sure.
- Overall I enjoyed it. It hit every box. It was a great game. I just didn't feel the wow factor personally. I gave that a 3.5.
- My Island was a disappointment. I I wanted that game to be more for me. It wasn't unfortunately.
- Gloomhaven which I also have been going through a lot. Again, it's another one I want to do a 12 by 12 review of.
- Certain games are just you know, my jam.
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