Amid 28 separate acts of card manipulation and related deception, a story involving much chicanery, false identities, secrets and at least one unreliable narrator, perhaps the most startling sleight-of-hand in Card Shark is one that the game pulls on you, the player. But in keeping with the theme of bluff and subterfuge – and their accompanying showmanship – we won’t divulge what that is just yet.
You will have to stick around for the final reveal.
Together with Nerial, no stranger in the art of telling stories with cards, artist and designer Nicolai Troshinsky has crafted a captivating, beautifully presented rags-toriches adventure that bucks contemporary trends: it’s not so much a deck-builder as a deck-exploiter. You play as