Anyone play this game? The video on steam doesn’t really give me an idea of how to play, it just shows a poker hand and the player clicks on a bunch of jokers?
its a poker-themed roguelike deckbuilder. sort of like slay the spire but with playing cards. jokers give effects and theres tarot cards, planet cards, spectral cards and so on and your goal is to get more and more poker chips through chaining things together or adding effects, playing different strategies. its really fun. its rather addictive once you get going
Has “roguelike” lost all meaning now?
What does roguelike mean to you?
Roguelike (or rogue-like) is a style of role-playing game traditionally characterized by a dungeon crawl through procedurally generated levels, turn-based gameplay, grid-based movement, and permanent death of the player character.
If that’s your definition of Rougelike then yes.
Most people understand procedural generation and permadeath to be the core features.
While many feature turn-based gameplay, grid-based movement is not typical.It’s a card game. Decks in card games are shuffled. Card games existed long before Rogue. Shuffling a deck doesn’t make something “roguelike,” much less procedurally generated.
It’s a betting game. You lose when you’re out of money. Betting games existed long before Rogue. Running out of money doesn’t make something “roguelike.”
It’s just poker with extra shit in it.