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Card Shark asks you to be a filthy rotten cheat next yearPlay your cards wrong

Play your cards wrong

Look. If you just wanna shuffle decks, there’s no shortage of good card games on PC, But if you wanna cheat at cards? Well, there really ain’t much stock for your kind. EnterCard Shark, a con-artist’s dream of cheating your way through 18th-century France in search of fame, fortune, and a seat at the king’s table from the creators ofReigns. Just don’t get shot on the way, yeah?

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Where Reigns put you at the top of the social food chain, Card Shark slams you down to the bottom. You’ve got nothing but a caravan and a fast card hand, sure. But play it smart, and you’ll be able to con your way up into high society, using your winnings to buy your way onto higher-stakes tables. The end goal? Scam the King of France, robbing him of his dignity before the revolution inevitably robs him of his head.

It helps that Card Shark is proper gorgeous, too, presenting a warmly lit hand-drawn tapestry of olde fashioned crime. Card Shark shuffles ontoSteamsometime next year. Until then, Nerial have thatrecently-announced adaptation of Orwell’s Animal Farmto get out the door.