Poker and Sorcery

The seeds are all here. But we need more levels and more classes and more weapons and more creatures and more repeatability. Please keep updating, happy to pay for expansion.

The devs have taken a good and clever game and made it boring. The original presented the player with choices and goals Each level of the game showed player the opponents, and rewards, they would encounter and presented multiple paths to to victory, or defeat. Players made choices that permitted them to form their character to their own choosing. This version is a simple trek of kill the next monster and pick a random reward, with very little player agency. The devs added complexity without preserving playability. Where the original provided outcomes for the full range of poker hands this version reduces variety by lumping the low probability hands into a single outcome, then tags a handful poker breaking cheats as rewards. It became tedious halfway through the first play through. Most annoyingly, the game does not allow tablet rotation, forcing play with the power connection at the bottom, precluding playing while connected to a power source. This app is, at best, a poor copy of a much better game.

I really like this game, but whenever I finish the tower level, I keep feeling like the game has ended too soon. I wish it was much longer. That said, it may be worth having our character revive at the start of each new world rather than having to start from scratch. My 2 cents. Anyway, I love the game and wish it were longer and harder!