We all love that feeling when we’ve gotten away with something, and Nerial’s upcoming adventure game Card Shark is the epitome of that mischievous excitement. Playing as a quick-handed cheater in 18th century France, you’re tasked with climbing high society by beating nobles in games of cards.
Together with your partner and accomplice, the tricky Count of St Germain, you travel from location to location across France swindling politicians and royals out of their riches through a number of deviously clever card techniques. “It’s a story of intrigue where people backstab each other,” Card Shark’s Nicolai Troshinsky says. “There’s conspiracy, lying, people pretending to be other people –all that sweet stuff”
You’d think in a game about swindling the rich, you’d get to play the Robin Hood figure and bask…
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PC Gamer United Kingdom (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2021