A classic is back!
Response from developer
Hello, after 9 years we finally relaunched the game with some improvements, we hope you like it. Unfortunately the game progress will be lost, but contact us and we send you a gift code to compensate you.
Hoping for an update before iOS 11
One can hope for an update 🙂
If you've come across this, just buy it!
Response from developer
Hello, after 9 years we finally relaunched the game with some improvements, we hope you like it. Unfortunately the game progress will be lost, but contact us and we send you a gift code to compensate you.
Casual RPG poker, just what the doctor ordered.
Response from developer
Hello, after 12 years we finally relaunched the game with some improvements, we hope you like it. Unfortunately the game progress will be lost, but contact us and we send you a gift code to compensate you.
Unbalanced
While I already have issues with timers due to my disabilities, these are worse than any I’ve ever seen. Normally I can get about 80% of the way through something before a timer runs out, but here I’m only getting 5-10%. That’s just ludicrous. I can see why other players are complaining that the timers just aren’t realistic.
This game needs some serious play-testing and major adjustments in the next release. Maybe just doing away with the timers all together.
I really wanted this game to be better. I really enjoyed my first ten minutes with it.
Response from developer
Hello, after 12 years we finally relaunched the game with some improvements, including the ones you mentioned (thanks for that). We hope you like it. Unfortunately the game progress will be lost, but contact us and we send you a gift code to compensate you.
good at first...
Response from developer
Hello, after 12 years we finally relaunched the game with some improvements, including the things you mentioned (thanks for that). We hope you like it. Unfortunately the game progress will be lost, but contact us and we send you a gift code to compensate you.
This game is virtually unplayable
This game, on the other hand, starts out encouragingly enough, what with the cute story and engaging poker hand gameplay. It soon becomes strikingly clear however that you can't advance very far - I'm talking about the third or fourth 'level, of which there are nine - without having to spend real $ on chips, so you can buy potions that restore your health and also buy re-charges for the powers you get from collecting the all-important amulets. I tried playing without shelling out as long as I could, and then I finally invested $4.99 for 10,000 in chips. That got me a little farther along, only to be faced with the Queen character on the fourth level, who has the power to freeze the cards, rendering them unusable unless you have the explode amulet, which I did, with 5 recharges - the max - and I didn't even put a dent in her 2500 life points (as opposed to my measly 212 or whatever). In the process, I used up all my $ buying health recharges, until I was nearly out of chips, with nearly all the cards frozen and nothing to do but slink off with my tail between my legs.
As others have stated, the game is seriously flawed and horrendously imbalanced, in ways far too numerous to go into here and in addition to what I described above. Didn't anyone at Instant Technologies test the sucker before releasing it last December to an unsuspecting iPad public? It certainly does not seem like it, or they just didn't care. Whatever the case, it's been reluctantly and sadly uninstalled. It was fun while it lasted.
Response from developer
Hello, after 13 years we finally relaunched the game with some improvements, including the things you mentioned (thanks for that). We hope you decide to give it another go and like what we did. Unfortunately the game progress will be lost, but contact us and we send you a gift code to compensate the money you spent.
Unique
Response from developer
Hello, after 12 years we finally relaunched the game with some improvements, we hope you like it. Unfortunately the game progress will be lost, but contact us and we send you a gift code to compensate you.
Unique Poker RPG!
Response from developer
Hello, after 13 years we finally relaunched the game with some improvements. We hope you like it. Unfortunately the game progress will be lost, but contact us and we send you a gift code to compensate you.
Great Puzzle/Strategy Card Game
Response from developer
Hello, after 13 years we finally relaunched the game with some improvements, including the things you mentioned (thanks for that). We hope you like it. Unfortunately the game progress will be lost, but contact us and we send you a gift code to compensate you.
Great game!
Response from developer
Hello, after 13 years we finally relaunched the game with some improvements, we hope you like it. Unfortunately the game progress will be lost, but contact us and we send you a gift code to compensate you.
Unbalanced, Frustrating, Waste of Time
the issues:
starting the 3rd map, the 'air spirits' becomes almost impossible to beat with a 90sec timer. really we're supposed to get straights and flushes while knocking down 500 points in 90secs... the next map is the same with a flush spirit.... nice idea... terrible execution... the spirits blocks some areas of the maps so its basically makes a portion of the maps useless.
with all the chips earned, there is nothing to buy, no stores, no weapons bonus, armors, time stopage etc.... nothing. all you can buy are more 'turns' on the amulets you have collected... wastes of time.
there are alot of other game play quirks that makes it very frustration for players who paid for the full version and were dissappointed shortly into the game.
i wished they made another version of Sword & Poker 2, its 100x better than this .
Response from developer
Hello, after 14 years we finally relaunched the game with some improvements, including the things you mentioned (thanks for that). We hope you like it. Unfortunately the game progress will be lost, but contact us and we send you a gift code to compensate you.
Fun, but needs more.
Response from developer
Hello, after 14 years we finally relaunched the game with some improvements, we hope you like it. Unfortunately the game progress will be lost, but contact us and we send you a gift code to compensate you.
Interesting game
Response from developer
Hello, after 14 years we finally relaunched the game with some improvements, including the things you mentioned (thanks for that). We hope you like it. Unfortunately the game progress will be lost, but contact us and we send you a gift code to compensate you.
Great game
Response from developer
Hello, after 14 years we finally relaunched the game with some improvements, we hope you like it. Unfortunately the game progress will be lost, but contact us and we send you a gift code to compensate you.
Innovative but repetitive
But it only has the combat system going on for it; the world and maps are bare and spartan in their simplicity. Almost no room to explore. The story while not bad uses "LOL" as a word. The worst thing, though is the poker spirits you have to beat once in a while. You can only hurt them with one specific type of poker hand, and even the first two like two pairs or three of a kind take many tries before you can beat them. You have to be lucky with your cards several times in a row, and quickly because you only have a minute and a half to beat them. I have no idea how I am supposed to beat the spirit of royal flush when I can't beat the spirit of straights yet.
Still, the game is worth a try and I hope they change the way the spirits work because they are insanely hard.
Response from developer
Hello, after 14 years we finally relaunched the game with some improvements, including the things you mentioned (thanks for that). We hope you like it. Unfortunately the game progress will be lost, but contact us and we send you a gift code to compensate you.
Has a lot of potential but needs polishing
Response from developer
Hello, after 14 years we finally relaunched the game with some improvements, including the things you mentioned (thanks for that). We hope you like it. Unfortunately the game progress will be lost, but contact us and we send you a gift code to compensate you.
Requires too much level grinding
Response from developer
Hello, after 14 years we finally relaunched the game with some improvements, including the things you mentioned (thanks for that). We hope you like it. Unfortunately the game progress will be lost, but contact us and we send you a gift code to compensate you.
Pokerish
Fun so far, though a little repetitive. Dialogue manages not to be terrible.
The bonus battles against the 'spirits' feel too random - e.g. making only flushes is just a matter of what you get dealt. Maybe a better mechanic would be that you have to make hands at *or above* a certain rank. These would also be more fun IMO if you had a fixed number of turns (10? 15?) rather than a time limit...
Response from developer
Hello, after 14 years we finally relaunched the game with some improvements, including the things you mentioned (thanks for that). We hope you like it. Unfortunately the game progress will be lost, but contact us and we send you a gift code to compensate you.