In another, you’re not directly playing at the table, but rather on service around it, meaning that you have the opportunity to look at your opponent’s cards as you pour them a glass of wine, and wipe the table in such a way that tells your partner what cards they have. For example, in one trick, you subtly mark the card that your patron should cut the deck at after your (fake) shuffle. The gameplay is almost entirely to do with sleight of hand tricks that allow you to indicate to your patron what cards your opponents are holding, or to stack the deck in his favour. I wasn’t sure what I was getting into when I started playing, and found it almost surprising just how gripping the narrative of Cark Shark is given the game’s concept, but it definitely hooks you in and takes you for a mighty ride.
You’ll even get to bump into side characters like Voltaire (the Voltaire!), for a bit of philosophical banter. Germain, who was a very real person and, historically, he was very much a deceptive troublemaker (though whether he played and cheated cards or not is not a historic certainty). Your character’s own mentor is the Comte of St. The developers have clearly done their research, name-dropping various people from the era. The way the painterly art depicts a world of decadence and the narrative leaves the impression of an upper class consumed by hubris and arrogance, and a society that is inching every bit towards the French Revolution that would occur later in the century. So starts a quest that involves you learning a wide range of different tricks, and then applying those scams to people that – best you hope – never realise that they’re being swindled. You are subsequently recruited by a ne’er-do-well noble that quickly realises that you will be quite the asset in helping him scam others in cards.
It can be infuriating, but only ever in a good way, as it tests a range of observational and co-ordinational skills that most games do not.Ĭard Shark is set in the 18th century, and kicks off with you – a mute servant – being run out of town for a crime that you did not commit (but would assuredly be punished for). Devolver Digital has the most incredible knack for finding games that are just plain good fun to publish, and this is a very good example of that ability. Card Shark is what happens when you take the act of cheating at gambling and make it cultured.
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