One of the originals to use this battle mechanic. Welcome back. You should absolutely play this.

This is really a card puzzle game that uses some poker mechanics. You don't "play poker" in any meaningful sense, as there is no betting. As the game progresses you unlock 'amulets' that let you manipulate the deck (e.g. draw more cards, remove cards from the 'board', etc.), and you get bonuses for using those to win battles quickly and with higher-ranked hands.Fun so far, though a little repetitive. Dialogue manages not to be terrible.The bonus battles against the 'spirits' feel too random - e.g. making only flushes is just a matter of what you get dealt. Maybe a better mechanic would be that you have to make hands at *or above* a certain rank. These would also be more fun IMO if you had a fixed number of turns (10? 15?) rather than a time limit...

I love trying new types of games, specially anything that can offer something new in the tired RPG genre, and this game delivers. The poker based combat system works better than it has any right to.But it only has the combat system going on for it; the world and maps are bare and spartan in their simplicity. Almost no room to explore. The story while not bad uses "LOL" as a word. The worst thing, though is the poker spirits you have to beat once in a while. You can only hurt them with one specific type of poker hand, and even the first two like two pairs or three of a kind take many tries before you can beat them. You have to be lucky with your cards several times in a row, and quickly because you only have a minute and a half to beat them. I have no idea how I am supposed to beat the spirit of royal flush when I can't beat the spirit of straights yet.Still, the game is worth a try and I hope they change the way the spirits work because they are insanely hard.

Here we have a supposedly clever game, from Brazil, which bills itself as 'the first RPPG' - role playing poker game. I love this kind of thing; I was lethally addicted to Puzzle Quest, where the match 3 genre was forever immortalized by the brilliant gameplay and majestic storyline. The biggest difference between Poker Knight and that stunning entry is quite simple: Puzzle Quest was actually PLAYABLE.This game, on the other hand, starts out encouragingly enough, what with the cute story and engaging poker hand gameplay. It soon becomes strikingly clear however that you can't advance very far - I'm talking about the third or fourth 'level, of which there are nine - without having to spend real $ on chips, so you can buy potions that restore your health and also buy re-charges for the powers you get from collecting the all-important amulets. I tried playing without shelling out as long as I could, and then I finally invested $4.99 for 10,000 in chips. That got me a little farther along, only to be faced with the Queen character on the fourth level, who has the power to freeze the cards, rendering them unusable unless you have the explode amulet, which I did, with 5 recharges - the max - and I didn't even put a dent in her 2500 life points (as opposed to my measly 212 or whatever). In the process, I used up all my $ buying health recharges, until I was nearly out of chips, with nearly all the cards frozen and nothing to do but slink off with my tail between my legs. As others have stated, the game is seriously flawed and horrendously imbalanced, in ways far too numerous to go into here and in addition to what I described above. Didn't anyone at Instant Technologies test the sucker before releasing it last December to an unsuspecting iPad public? It certainly does not seem like it, or they just didn't care. Whatever the case, it's been reluctantly and sadly uninstalled. It was fun while it lasted.