Card Shark
Card Shark is an adventure game full of cunning, intrigue, and delectable deceit. Enter a world where you’ll need to play your opponents better than you play your cards. Cheat your way to the top of…
Card Shark is an adventure developed by Nerial, released 2 June 2022 on Nintendo Switch, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $3.99 at Steam.
What Card Shark is
Card Shark is an adventure game developed by Nerial and released in 2022. It was published by Devolver Digital. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Our adversaries tonight? An unscrupulous group of scoundrels and rogues, rumoured to possess an unlimited fund between them. If we stick to the strategies you’ve learnt, this will be a walkover." - Comte de Saint-Germain Cheat your way to the top of 18th-century French society. Master deceptions using card marking, false shuffles, deck switching, false deals, and more! Use your ill-gotten gains to buy your way into the closed world of high-stakes tables. Uncover a conspiracy as you climb from local card parlors to the King's table. A word of advice: Don't get caught. Your fellow gamblers do not take kindly to cheats... Travel through 18th century France and discover small towns, remote…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are drama and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Card Shark holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 90% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2022 averaged 74, so it scored 14 points above the year average.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $3.99 at Steam, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Card Shark launched on 2 June 2022, within three weeks of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, Neon White and The Quarry. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It arrived 5 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, Neon White, The Quarry.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Card Shark yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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