Pine Tar Poker 9+

An excellent and underrated game: the mechanics and storytelling are excellent. I think I’m nearing the end after a good 6 hours of playtime, and I cannot stress enough how good the playtime is. This game is a quality storytelling seldom seen in mobile games and is definitely worth a purchase.

I’ve got a few minor gripes on how little is explained, but I figure they’ll be cleaned up over the next few updates. The “press and hold to explain” mechanic is rarely implemented, and sometimes I miss or forget the original explanation. Things like “what does each hand mean” or “what does the moon key do” or “what does the pencil do” are easily lost and can’t be re-explained.

Aidman, you just gave me the best Christmas present! I really enjoyed reading your review and I'm so glad you are enjoying Pine Tar.

I hear you on the explainer texts. It's a struggle to find the right balance of how much to say. Huge walls of text can turn off players and not understanding the game can do the same. I'd like to find better ways in Pine Tar.

Definitely a relaxing and interesting poker game, good for learning the game or just obsessively trying to complete all the hand variants in each round. I enjoy that there are a couple “outs” in each round as you work on getting all the hands. A fun game with lots of replay value.

Thanks for the kind words deadandy! Glad you are enjoying Pine Tar.

This game is really great and slowly reveals items along the storyline to keep you interested.

I’ve played this since the public beta and highly recommend to everyone!

Hey Ron! Thanks for the kind review and for being a part of the beta!