The Sword & Poker games are ancient by today’s standard, but, man, we couldn’t get enough of them back in 2010. We reviewed both the first and the second game three years ago, but here’s the gist of the game(s)- Imagine a game dripping with RPG trimmings, but all of your battles are played on a grid of cards where you have to make poker hands in order to attack monsters and crawl through dungeons.
It’s one of those games that sounds totally crazy, but sucks you in and quickly becomes impossible to put down. It’s debatable whether the first or the second is the better of the two, but here’s what I recommend you do: Download the lite version of either or both games immediately, give it five minutes. If it clicks to you, grab ’em both. The Sword & Poker games have had sort of a mysterious life on the App Store, randomly disappearing then re-appearing like some kind of creepy carnival.
Keep in mind, these are every bit games from 2010. This means no iPhone 5 widescreen graphics, no multitasking support, and hell, it doesn’t even seem to have retina display assets. None of this makes Sword & Poker any less fun.