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Card Shark
Developer Nerial
Card Shark is an action-adventure game developed by Nerial and published by Devolver Digital. The game was released for macOS, Windows, and Nintendo Switch on June 2, 2022. Based and set in 18th century France, the game follows a mute peasant who assists Comte de Saint Germain to con gamblers from various parlors as they pursue a Royal rumor called "The Twelve Bottles of Milk". From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
251 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Oct 30, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
82
LovedLoved
147 positive · 33 negative
95% range 75–87%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 147 | 33 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 20 | 1 | 40 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
897 of 1,016 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
81% recommend · 147 yes, 35 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 182 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (2,940 of 3,265 positive).
Players praise the unique concept of learning real sleight-of-hand card tricks. [1][2][3] The art style and music are widely appreciated for creating an immersive atmosphere. [1][4][5] Some reviewers find the game frustrating due to difficulty and repetitive sections. [6][7][8]
Liked
Representative posts
- [6]
The animations and art are excellent in this game, and seeing a presentation of how card tricks work and unfold is really quite fascinating, but unfortunately as a game, I found it hard to enjoy and recommend. If I had to breakdown my 7.5h playthrough of this game as a percentage I’d roughy gauge it as 50% tutorial-based learning card tricks, 40% fumbling through putting them into practice as part of the story, and …
- [1]
A recommend, with caveats. This is in fact a very delightful game of REAL sleight-of-hand card tricks, and I think a lot of the joy you get from this game will depend on how much you geek out at pulling these off. The art and music are also a great mood to get lost in! The moment-to-moment gameplay is a series of minigames and QTEs that correspond to performing 28 different deck and card manipulations ("28", though …
- [13]
I just finished this game and have a lot of strong emotions. The story is fantastic, the gameplay is unique and challenging, BUT a major bug really hindered my experience and I’m not the only one. This bug skipped over the climax of the story as well as the explanation of what I’m supposed to be doing during the penultimate game of cards. This left me struggling for hours to understand what I was doing wrong, as I …
- [5]
'Quick Time Event: The Game'. This is a very fun game if you're into pre-revolutionary France and like a game a little fast-paced but still comfortable. Puts you in the position of a card cheat and every round becomes very anxious. You learn other tricks also like duelling and rigging coin tosses. You also encounter famous pre-rev French personalities like the Comte, Voltaire, Pompadour, Louis XV etc. The art style …
- [2]
This was quite an enjoyable little story set in pre-revolution France. It's not really a point-and-click adventure game as such and it's quite linear, so there's not that much replay value. This game has two things going for it that make me recommend it: The first thing is that if you're interested in sleight-of-hand card tricks and clever manipulations for fooling people, this game has plenty of examples of those. …
Summarised from 34 of the 247 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 12, 2026. How summaries are made
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Players who liked Card Shark talk about unique gameplay teaching real card-cheating techniques; those who didn't talk about difficulty spikes and unforgiving timers. Which matters more to you?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Card Shark received "generally favorable" reviews according to review aggregator Metacritic. PC Gamer praised the cheating mechanics, saying "Card Shark is the closest I've seen a game get to mimicking character actions with a gamepad. It's an ingenious system and every trick is different". The Guardian liked the art style of the title, feeling it brought each scenario in the game to life, "All this is beautifully brought to life with scribbly, expressive character portraits, wine-coloured backdrops". The Verge enjoyed the stress of the game put the player under, "even when Card Shark was challenging, I had a lot of fun mastering the techniques... I would even get legitimately nervous…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 251 · most liked first144 - Card Shark "Up for a game of chance, stranger?"
neutral · AI labelView post →The animations and art are excellent in this game, and seeing a presentation of how card tricks work and unfold is really quite fascinating, but unfortunately as a game, I found it hard to enjoy and recommend. If I had to breakdown my 7.5h playthrough of this game as a percentage I’d roughy gauge it as 50% tutorial-based learning card tricks, 40% fumbling through putting them into practice as part of the story, and 10% story text. As an example, when I play a game I like to learn a bulk of the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I decided to stop playing this game. Instead of feeling like a master con artist, I felt like I was following a rigid instruction manual with increasingly complex quick-time events and memory puzzles. If you mess up a single button prompt, you often have to replay tedious sections all over again.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A recommend, with caveats. This is in fact a very delightful game of REAL sleight-of-hand card tricks, and I think a lot of the joy you get from this game will depend on how much you geek out at pulling these off. The art and music are also a great mood to get lost in! The moment-to-moment gameplay is a series of minigames and QTEs that correspond to performing 28 different deck and card manipulations ("28", though some are combinations or variations of other ones). You won't actually play a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Meh...It's not bad, really. I just didn't get much excitement out of it. The game is essentially a series of minigames where you are instructed on how to correctly input for a given trick, and then you do so. Here's an example: Down, Up, Up, Up, Up, Up, Up, Left, Down, Down, Down, Up, Up, Up, Right, Down, Down, Down, Down, Y, B, A. You see that? That's one of the input strings for the final trick. It comes a long way from the beginning where it was just: Right, Y, Up, Down. Again, its…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →NEW VIDEO In which we're gonna talk about Card Shark, a 2022 game about being a lovable scoundrel cheating at cards and robbing the French aristocracy blind. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kg_...
neutral · AI labelView post →Set in 16th century France, Card Shark follows the tale of Eugiene, a mute server from a local bar. After a game of cards goes south, the owner is killed, and Eugine is left as the most likely suspect. With no where else to go, Eugiene falls in with a local troupe of thieves, who steal from the French nobility by cheating at card games. Thus, Eugiene and is new mentor, The Compte, set out across France to fleece as many nobles as they can. However, their less than noble journey will get the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I just finished this game and have a lot of strong emotions. The story is fantastic, the gameplay is unique and challenging, BUT a major bug really hindered my experience and I’m not the only one. This bug skipped over the climax of the story as well as the explanation of what I’m supposed to be doing during the penultimate game of cards. This left me struggling for hours to understand what I was doing wrong, as I didn’t know anything was skipped until I looked online after and saw others had…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ugh man. Card Shark is a fucking cool game. This industry blows.
positive · AI labelView post →This was quite an enjoyable little story set in pre-revolution France. It's not really a point-and-click adventure game as such and it's quite linear, so there's not that much replay value. This game has two things going for it that make me recommend it: The first thing is that if you're interested in sleight-of-hand card tricks and clever manipulations for fooling people, this game has plenty of examples of those. I'm fairly clueless when it comes to stuff like faking card shuffles, so a lot…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love cards, I love slight of hand, I love magic tricks. This game has all that, however, it's extremely difficult and not in a fun way. The timer is unforgiving and forces you to play fast, which is fine but it doesn't ramp up in difficulty. It's just immediately fast. Which brings us to the bad part. The cheating methods, while real and cool are not easy to do. You're expected to remember many different variables with very little practice and then they keep feeding you new methods every new…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I enjoyed this game but struggeled a bit. It's a puzzle game with a time limit/stress factor. Nice graphics and setting, the short story is also nice but not very realistic. You don't need any experience with card games besides knowing the different suits and values of the high cards. The game is not very hard but takes concentration, not the kind of game to play when you are tired. I was worried that I had to remember all the tricks but the game will let you repeat each necessary step before…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A gameplay you almost never see, in a place and time you almost never see, with an art you almost never see. It's original, and incredibly good !
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the most charming, well animated, and beautifully orchestrated(in the musical and plot sense of the word) adventure games I have played in a long time. A definite Recommend.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →'Quick Time Event: The Game'. This is a very fun game if you're into pre-revolutionary France and like a game a little fast-paced but still comfortable. Puts you in the position of a card cheat and every round becomes very anxious. You learn other tricks also like duelling and rigging coin tosses. You also encounter famous pre-rev French personalities like the Comte, Voltaire, Pompadour, Louis XV etc. The art style is beautiful and there are even multiple endings. I really enjoyed it!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is definitely a very interesting take on a card game with a story-driven approach to it and a really beautiful art style. I just have one complaint and that has to do with the difficulty/lack of access to previous tutorials on it, it's really hard to pick the game back up if you haven't played it for a while. I experienced this after taking a break from playing it for a few months, and now I find myself completely lost and can't remember the tactics/strategies that the gameplay…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So. A while ago, @devolverdigital.com sent me a code for Card Shark, along with a Card Shark Deck of Cards. And I while I streamed the game, I used the deck to show off some irl sleight of hand moves and magic tricks. BUT, I've always wanted to try doing all the moves in the game, as they're taught.
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh my. It's adorable. Card Shark Pool has been "Pack o Game-ified". CUE 🤌
neutral · AI labelView post →Another one-of-a-kind game - Card Shark is going real cheap. A story-led adventure about cheating at card games, working as wingman for the notorious Comte de Saint-Germain to swindle the rich and powerful out of their riches and worldly possessions. Teaches real card-cheating tricks!
neutral · AI labelView post →Very charming, though I really wish you unlocked a chapter select after you beat the game to make 100% completion more doable.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As much as I wanted to like this game it was a massive pain in the ass. What you are promised is a game about gambling, cheating and how it affects humans in part of history defined by social turmoil. And the narrative of this game delivers that! But that's about it, the gameplay is just awfull. You are stuck doing repetetive series of Quick Time Events based on finesse movements with very little space for error. While the game tells you that it is meant to be played with controller, it isn't…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Card Shark is a very good game that you should play. Best wishes to the Nerial team. You were very cheeky. #indiegame #indiegames #indiedev
positive · AI labelView post →1. Most of the tricks/minigames are poorly explained, or the explanations are confusing. 2. Playing on PC with a mouse is a nightmare; the game doesn't register many movements and interactions.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm horrible at card games. This game has taught me that I'm also horrible at cheating at card games. Fun little story set in 18th century France where you have to cheat at cards in order to build yourself up a veritable fortune, while also cheating death! Recommended!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →whoever told me that this game is a cozy game LIED to my face because this is everything but COZY. I'm on the edge of my seat at every minute of this game. I literally had to whip out my pen and paper because i simply couldn't remember the instructions. it's frustrating but a fun kind of frustration. truly anything like i have ever played before. if you really wanna enjoy the art of swindling from soulless rich people, this is the game for you!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →NEW Card Shark idev.games/game/card-sh... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #indiegames
neutral · AI labelView post →Yes, this game fully focuses on the art of cheating in a card game, and it's actually pretty nice. But personally for me, Card Shark is not really a card game, but more of an interaction game. For every trick you learn on how to cheat, you will use it for one mission or some multiple missions. The main challenge is to perform those tricks you learned on the actual card game. It profits from the fear of messing it up, which helped to make the gameplay neither boring nor monotonous. And even if…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A really interesting concept with mechanics that link well to the narrative. Unfortunately, it's not accessible to people with disabilities relating to mobility of the hands. After a few minutes of play I am in agony. Switching to easy mode didn't help. I'd recommend this for people with full hand-arm mobility, but if you have any issues with your hands, stay away.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love the hand-drawn 2D art and the classical music. The premise of cheating in cards is also intriguing enough. However, the game has three major issues. First of all, the design behind the tricks for cheating. The learning curve is gentle enough: you learn one trick per story event throughout the game, from the simplest ones to more complex ones, for a total of 28 tricks. The trouble is that a trick is roughly a series of QTE events involving almost no player agency or creativity: for most…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Another entry into our Obligatory Minigame series has landed! This time it's the Obligatory Card Game run by Simple Card Shark Sam! We really feel this game has legs. Download it now! It's free, why dontcha! fivepointsgames.itch.io/the-obligato... #Indiegame #TTRPG #TCG #JRPG
neutral · AI labelView post →My Mini Game masterpiece Card Shark is sold as a game about cheating at cards, and while that's more than true, it also isn't telling the whole story. Card Shark is more like a visual novel that happens to have a bunch of small mini-games that lock progression. Just like with most visual novels, there are a number of choices that you can make that changes aspects of the story, but there really aren't branching pathways or multiple endings, just slightly different colorings to the story.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really, really liked Card Shark! I love games based on the player's growing knowledge and I think the way the game challenges you on memory and clever thinking was really satisfying! The feeling of having done so many card tricks that you are able to pick up new ones more quickly, and that you have memorized certain shuffling sequences, was a really cool experience. You do feel that you grow in skill alongside your protagonist, even though I could never pull any of this stuff off in real…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It is a shame. I really do like this game, it is very fun, but there are too many bugs for me to recommend it. I currently cannot make any progress in my save because of a softlock (which happens very often); only this time I cannot seem to fix it. Amazing game in concept, but the bugs make it quite literally unplayable.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Absolutely unique and incredible game. You learn and execute cheating techniques while progressing through a great story with spectacular artwork. Note that the gameplay is more catered towards people interested in gambling or playing with a physical deck of cards, you won't actually be playing a strategic game of cards or anything like that. The only knock I have is that the ending is a bit disappointing compared to the build up of story as a whole. Certainly worth a play for anyone…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Should've called it: Barry Lyndon Simulator
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really want to like this game but for all its charm it is overshadowed by frustration and poor design choices. First the good: The art style and overall presentation is beautiful and the gameplay is novel. I really like the concept of using sneaky tricks to cheat your way through card games 18th Century France. The way the game accomplishes this is overall well done and feels like it requires some skill. The problem is that some mechanics are very poorly explained, and then often there…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Two vacation days left until I travel to @g2summit.bsky.social, and project “catch up on video games” continues…goal is to beat Card Shark, the bonus episodes of Not for Broadcast, and to finally start Balatro. I have to keep telling myself, “Do NOT prototype a board game, just relax a minute.”
neutral · AI labelView post →Fun mechanics, okay story. It's basically trying to turn part of Barry Lyndon into a video game (I'm surprised this isn't mentioned more often).
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Initially a cool idea, ultimately a pointless exercise sprinkled with modernist sexuality smuggling.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tried the cheats irl and failed each of them >:D
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Card Shark: Bought for the clever art and the fact that while I will kick your ass at cards, I don't want to play cards, because they turn everyone, including me, into an asshole. Which seems to be the plot. store.steampowered.com/app/1371720/...
neutral · AI labelView post →ME: How about we make this game a little more…. interesting CARD SHARK: Oh yeah ME: (dips the cards in purple paint, drops them in a blender, grinds them into confetti) FIVE HUNDRED TWENTY CARD PICKUP BABY OH YEAH I WIN I WIN I WIN
neutral · AI labelView post →We finished Card Shark last night! The last match was a doozy, and I can't believe I was able to complete this game with my goldfish brain, but I did it nonetheless. I want to reiterate again that it's SO COOL that a lot of the cards tricks taught are based on real world ones!
positive · AI labelView post →I recommend checking out Card Shark, though I must admit this game was a dead stop for me. I could just not get into the mechanics of the game and they kept adding more and more minigames to learn. I just did not have the brain power for this one, but reviews are high on this one!
neutral · AI labelView post →I like trying out games a little out of the norm as far as popular genres. This is Card Shark. Marking the high and low cards to my advantage. You get to practice repeatedly but when the game is actually on the line pulling off the moves without getting caught can be intense…and tough!
neutral · AI labelView post →Sadly, the game consist mostly of memorising quick time events, there's no build up of gameplay and tutorialisation assume you're gonna remember everything with inconsistant UI informations.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the game have soft lock bug, cannot continue to the story
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the last couple of game I've played have been card themed store.steampowered.com/app/1371720/... This, and balatro. Card Shark is really interesting. Card game cheating. Hm.
neutral · AI labelView post →seems weird that i recommend this game with only 2 hours played, but the thing is that this game is gorgeous and get more attention but i just suck ASS at it so thats why :Ddd
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It is a fun game, but very, very glitchy. I had to use console commands to reset scenarios on several occasions. Considering this game is several years old I doubt they will bother fixing the bugs any time soon.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What a great game. Even if the game is pretty hard but at least the last hard trick feels so rewarding when you get it! The mood and the story is so cool! Big reco!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So there you have it, many things for the Shiv Cult to look forward to in 2024! And who knows, maybe we'll even see some other... movement in the near future (oho, I am a subtle tease)! In the meantime, I'm Loxley, Satyr of Strategy, Caprine Card Shark and Board Game Goat. Ta-ra!/
neutral · AI labelView post →Started playing Card Shark. Really cool art style and fun gameplay. Wanna be a trickster in the 18th century? This is the game for you! #indiegames store.steampowered.com/app/1371720/...
positive · AI labelView post →This game for me is a unique gem, a collection of clever minigames, built up on top of each other, wrapped in a unique intriguing story and beautiful art! I've played it twice, while also having friends watching the first playthrough, so it's a fun game to experience together. I will only note that although the game has different endings, playing a second time didn't feel too different, so I'd say it's a one shot experience (a very good one!) The story is well written, it was refreshing…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →@taytimetravelor.bsky.social mentioned card sharks & shark week which made me think about my comment from another Gaylor post. I said. "There's blood in the water" 🦈 My Claire said "Google card shark" & the first thing that came up was a game called Card Shark (2022) 🤯 Nintendo Switch=UNO reverse
neutral · AI labelView post →I like the current emote you are using Card Shark. But I also think Sarcastic Salute emote is pretty cool!✨ I gotta say there is so many good emotes in this game I sometimes can't decide either x3
neutral · AI labelView post →I have got mixed feelings about this game First is that it’s a good game with mechanics that I’ve never seen anywhere else. Cheating cards is fun. On the other hand, the game lacks many things. The tricks are sometimes complicated that you don’t know what to do and when you made one mistake, it could lead to your death. There is no card trick practice outside the tutorial section so you got to play the real gamble to see what to do. The autosave feature made it hard to redo your mistakes…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So this game is super original both in theme & visuals BUT - I had so many bugs (3 years after release) where I hade to relaunch, and a big one where simply I'm stuck in an ACT4 tutorial dialog, can't finish the game - the game teach you so badly, many times I simply couldn't inderstand what I was expected to do, and you have a re-do a whole sequence
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is infuriating. While I really like the art design, the gameplay is so annoying. There is so much waiting for one opportune moment, and sometimes your mouse just doesn't register exactly what you need to do. And that one mistake could cost you severely. At one point, I was one the highest setting, and made one mistake. I didn't realize that it would delete my whole file! However, since the game has a painfully so start, it is difficult to motivate one's self to start all over again.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i got filtered hard, had my save deleted via that wonderful game "mechanic", got filtered again, but i didn't want to quit until i finished the game. i'm glad i got to the end! the card tricks are clean simple fun, the game itself is beautiful and has a great art style. i loved how it was set in 18th century france, it's so colourful. it's a bit clunky playing on controller at times but oh well. overall i enjoyed it; it's not perfect, and it can get frustrating, but for a game this short it's…
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