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Aces & Adventures
Developer Triple.B.Titles
Aces & Adventures is a deckbuilding RPG with poker-powered combat. Craft your deck, combining poker hands with powerful ability cards. Journey through 13 fully-voiced campaigns to save the Life Tree, or tackle procedurally-generated runs in this strategic deckbuilder unlike any other. From the Steam store page
193 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Oct 4, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
73
Fresh
138 positive · 50 negative
95% range 67–79%
| Source | + | − | = |
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| Steam reviews | 138 | 50 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
5 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
3,100 of 3,493 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 193 · most liked firstThis is an enhanced poker game. The early game could be a bit RNG dependent and slow paced. Mid to late game are much more enjoyable once you level up enough and get most of the key cards. At the end game you can finish most of the enemies before they move regardless of the draw. Overall it's quite a fun experience. Achievements require S rate and above for all stages and max level for all characters. Hunter Archer build and Enchantress Debuff build are highly effective builds that can…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Played right up until I got a "For game balance reasons, two pair can't be used in an attack" message. You either want to make a game based on poker or not. This sucks, and the other rules seem extremely arbitrary and overly complex. Definitely do not recommend this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Looking for another deckbuilder RPG game but this time with poker-like combat and a nice idea for itself? A&A got you covered. I must admit I've probably spent far more time in this game that I should have, but it hooked me to the T. The gameplay is overly satisfying and that's what the core game is about, with plenty of unlockable content and various deck possibilities, making the game a very satisfying experience. I don't have much more to say, if you liked Slay the Spire or any other game…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A masterpiece, nonpareil in a very specific niche. People have been coming up with clumsy solitaire dungeon crawlers based on the physical 52-card playing card deck since at least the birth of Dungeons and Dragons (and probably before). I've read the rules of a lot of those and played a couple runs of a few. They're all pretty mediocre, but for some reason it seems to be a fascinating design trope for countless amateurs who think "if I could just get this right..." This game gets it right.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not sure why this game is getting some poor reviews. Here is a simple list of what I enjoy most about this game: - lots of different characters and play styles to choose from! - beautiful imagery, narration elements, and thoughtful stories - you can build your own deck to use in story mode or play a rogue-like deck builder - even after 40 hours I'm still unlocking new things for my character! - has modes that are more challenging & will keep you playing over and over until you succeed! I…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Since one of the "most helpful" reviews right now has 1.1 hours game time and says that the game feels boring since "there is too much luck involved and the heroes feel weak", I'd like to counter with my 2.8 hours of game time and say that the game is actually quite charming and fun. Luck is involved, but I haven't lost a single fight yet, even though I just try the different standard decks of the different heroes so far, while going through the story mode. Using abilities at the correct time…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"For balance reasons you can't use two pairs in combat" in a poker-hand based game. Boooooooooo! Get out of here!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a decent little game that's good for passing time. But not for 20 dollars! That price is way too high! If you want to get this game, make sure to get it on sale.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Can you believe this game was made before Balatro? Balatro's demo released 4 months after the full release of this game. Sort of like Blackjack and Degenerate Gamblers, another game coincidentally published by the Yogscast publishing arm, this game has the misfortune of being Balatro-adjacent before Balatro swept the market. A separate and interesting note is that BaDG and Balatro were both inspired by Luck Be A Landlord, which independently inspired Ballionaire, which has spawned it's own…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Please for the love of all that is holy let me just pass on defense and take the damage. Idk why tf you tell me to build and play poker hand when you constantly screw them by making me play the cards i was saving in defense.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is pretty annoying to get started. Tutorial is bad, it's explanations are bad, the cards trying to tell me a story while I am trying to figure out the game is really annoying and drags out the intro a ton. Playing cards and then random cards being discarded because card cost isn't explained is not fun and is infuriating. Will probably give it another chance later but overall a terrible first experience. Tried again, theres no way to redo the tutorial so I have no clue how to learn the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wish I liked this game but it just feels boring. I think its because there is too much luck involved and the heroes feel weak. The enemy can simply get a pair on their attacks a few turns in a row and you probably won't have that so you can just die even if you didn't do anything wrong. That doesn't feel good. I like that there are permanent upgrades you can get but the ones I got also just felt really weak.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Solid deckbuilder roguelite! The poker aspects serve as a base for a unique card battler system. The balance seems well dialed in and the gameplay grows in nuance as systems interact. One of the highlights is the "flowery" prose of the narration, although it can sometimes make things more confusing to understand. The story is essentially a tale woven by a DM with imaginative scenarios and challenges that must be overcome. And there's much more depth I haven't gotten to yet since I'm writing…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is very weirdly balanced, I really want to like it, like really really want to like it, but the ability deck building is up to pure RNG if you can get the cards to even make a deck that you want to play, summons have an arbitrary limit on one character, and always going for defense is objectively the best option at all times despite that they try to give you so many ways to attack better, except if you take the attack you're left to defend with unknown cards against enemies that will…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Didnt seem as though a single choice I made mattered, and level up choices were limited to 1 of 3 choices to start with. I hope this all gets better as time goes on, but the UI is obscure as it is and it felt like a trudging through the game before you are allowed to get out of tutorial mode.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good game to play when the cat won't let you use your keyboard.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Aces and Adventures offers little excitement in terms of gameplay, and the narrative is so uninteresting that I couldn’t even tell what it was about. I was initially drawn in by the poker aspect, but it quickly became dull, with a clunky UI and an unbearably slow pace. Most of the time, you're just playing high cards and using mostly ineffective abilities, which makes it feel more boring than poker without money. Ultimately, it becomes a tedious experience, and I can't recommend it to anyone…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I bought this very cheap so I won't refund it. BUT, this game has one of the worst RNG ever. The enemies obviously know what cards on our hand and they mock us by being so obvious about it. you have 2, 5, 7, 9, and 10 eh? Here I'll attack with a J oh you attack with a Q? I'll counter with a K more than half of the times, they will +1 us. And on the war of the branches mode has exactly the same.... branches everytime just with different enemies. the first or the second enemy will…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good example of the roguelike deckbuilder genre. Unusual in that it lets you configure your whole deck before the game begins [other than powers and cards that might be modified along the way, which is a minor effect compared to your starting deck]. The graphical settings overkill made me laugh a bit - it ran sluggishly and made my GPU very hot when I first started it, but turning the settings down made it behave reasonably. I really really don't need motion blur in my deckbuilding card…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It’s what happens when Texas Hold’em crashes into a D&D campaign and decides to stay for dinner. You’re not just playing cards, you’re casting spells with a full house and critting goblins with a royal flush. Strategy meets sorcery, and somehow, it works. Deck building is snappy and battles are addictively tactical. Surprisingly deep, dangerously replayable, and just the right amount of nerdy.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →there has to be something i'm missing. i've played a bit and even when i'm winning i'm not sure what's happening. i haven't had the light bulb moment. it's just so pretty and a good interface i couldn't stop. i would personally not recommend this game to to others as i cannot clearly explain the point. but the majority of positive reviews seem to understand what is going on. not every game is for every brain.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Loving the presentation and the story format, however like others have said. When you tie the rank of the mission to how much time you spend playing, then you incentivise skipping the story; (which is halve the fun).
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →2 Pairs send their regards.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Seems to have been developed at the same time as Balatro, so I don't think it's a ripoff, but it comes off as that game + inelegant bloat. Most of the "poker combat" is based around singles and pairs - more complex hands actually invalidate other core mechanics and don't sit nicely alongside the rest of the game. I like that it has a theme besides "getting points," but the writing is a chore to read. Flowery language doesn't make your generic fantasy story smarter. Can't neg what is ultimately…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Aces and Adventures is a deep and complex deckbuilder that is sliced up into bite sized story chapters. I didn't find this format all that enjoyable, but the overall game is still amazing and the voice acting and delivery is top notch. The base game provides five different classes and eventually a generous amount of cards to select from. Later on, there will be more map based path adventuring which I find much more enjoyable. The initial game is very slow and it might turn some players away…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I spend waaay too long on decks that I'll ultimately never use, and then I update them with new cards anyways. Please send help.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is quite the hidden gem, this game is really fun and very polished
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →9/10 One of the best roguelike games I’ve ever played. The exceptional presentation is what, at first glance, places this game in the top tier of the genre. This presentation is reflected in the outstanding creativity of the storytelling, a very interesting & compelling art style, great gameplay with a well balanced mix of luck & skill, and an engaging fully narrated campaign. Mixing both poker hands and ability & skill cards is truly a breath of fresh air in the genre. The replay value is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mixing poker hands with deck-building combat is a really cool idea. It's super satisfying when you pull off a big combo. That said, the RNG can be brutal and make some runs feel totally unfair.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Artistic theme for this game is all over the place with the 3D main menu, which also has no info on what each area means, making the menu utterly useless, and the core game being in high fantasy 2D art. Hard to get into the actual gameplay. There is another review that puts covers it pretty well. The tutorial or lack of good one makes so much of the game seem random. Abilities picking cards "at random" makes for a pretty bad user experience, especially when it takes cards that are part of a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A roguelike deckbuilder with very good mechanics, visuals and sounds but poor optimization (lots of stutters) and no gamepad support. Worth buying on a sale.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not horrible, but the gameplay isn't nearly engaging enough to keep me coming back now that I've finished the story. Worth the $2 I paid for it, but I wouldn't pay much more.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Having played all the way through to the end of the Winter Campaign, I can recommend this game to everyone who likes card battle games. There's a deck building aspect with your ability deck, but also luck and hand manipulation with the standard cards deck! Items, equipments and character traits you gain as you progress through a run will also keep things interesting! While the Fall campaign can easily be completed using the Starter Deck, it's by going further that you will find challenge…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →* Playtime: 32 hours * Played: 2025 * Expectation: None. In my experience, these games vary wildly in quality. The GoodThe five classes play very differently. Each class has roughly three different builds. Three different game modes with four difficulty levels each. Very easy to get in to if you know poker hands. Core gameplay is fun. The BadVery GPU-intensive despite being a simple looking card game. Deck names are tiny on deck selection screen. Atrocious deckbuilder. Literally the worst…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Completely unsatisfying combat system where you have to give up your powerful attack just to take damage and there's nothing you can do about it It feels like playing actual poker with how little control you have over the rng, just with some basic "deal 1 damage" abilities sprinkled in
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I tried a couple times. Looks well made but I just can't get into it. Feels like I'm missing something... Don't really get the Very Positive rating. Does not make me want to continue or delve deeper into the game and that sleepy voiced narrator doesn't help any... Nope.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My first post in the Backlog Bloggery series for 2025 - I take a look at the game Aces & Adventures, a pretty cool roguelite deck building game. #Gaming #VideoGames #Blog #Blogging aywren.com/2025/01/03/b...
unlabelledView post →Very fun deckbuilding/pocker game + RPG-lite-ish elements indeed. Reminded me of a mix of Balatro / Slay the Spire / Monster Train / Inscryption. This game is extremely enjoyable - I spent 10+ hours just playing primarily with the 1st character only, and there are 5 of them! Really enjoyed a spin on game mechanics, how even the same character has different playstyles (also fightling more advanced enemies requires a different approach to tactics etc). Also I notice that there are many…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For $2 on sale, I enjoyed this poker meets Hearthstone blend! I did not find it near as compelling as others in the same realm (Balatro, Wildfrost, Kings Writ, etc.) Overall though it is fun!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a perfect narrative card game, absolutely masterpiece.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's OK? Maybe I need to complete all the content to get to that "wow" moment, but I haven't had much of a "wow" yet. Putting together a tiny engine is neat, but it does remain tiny. The number of choices seems relatively small, compared to competing games. Hands are small. Runs are short. There does not seem to be enough there there for things to come together, although maybe there is more after you grind to level 30 in a class or tackle the later campaigns. If you like bite-sized gaming:…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very fun deckbuilder that uses the basic hands of poker. Will inevitably be compared to Balatro but has a very different feel. The adventures are short with just a few battles each and I can see buying this game at anywhere near RRP not worth it but when heavily discounted it's more than worth your time.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →9/10 - Great game but I wish there is better controller support pros: *Can be played on a steamdeck for around 3 hours @ ~10w *Very fun game specially if you like slay the spire and other deck builders *Each story arc has full voice acting(really good too) *5 champions with lots of spells and abilities to unlock means replayability *you can build own deck *poker hands are easy to learn *you need to think and strategize when to use a card *cool poems and dialouges *very affordable on sale,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Takes about an hour to really see what the game has to offer. I was hesitant about paying full retail but the summer sale knocked the price to $2. Knowing what I know now, I would have paid full retail earlier.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Simple, but elegantly done. I think that's the best description for this game. Everything feels minimal, but polished. The art, the gameplay, the menus. It's an excellent turn based card RPG. Fans of games in the genre (Slay the Spire, Monster Train) will probably enjoy this. One complaint: I didn't fully understand the game mode selection at first. It uses vague names to define whether you're doing adventure, spire run, etc. But you'll get the hang of it quick enough.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →6/10 - Overall, I like where the game was going, but playing, I just kept thinking how I'd rather be playing Slay the Spire, Roguebook instead. The games aren't that similar, just would rather play those than this game. Although for those that like games with story, this definitely has more story than those games have. I do like games with story, but when I had to keep replaying the same story multiple times because of bad poker hands, it was a bit repetitive and not very enjoyable. So…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really cool game, but keep in mind two things: 1) It's the type of roguelite where the more you play the easier it gets (which imho is the wrong way to do it), because you not only unlock new cards, but you get superior versions of them and, most importantly, get crazy permanent powerups when you level up your class. BUT, given there're various difficulties I guess it's ok. 2) The achievements are completely fck up. You level up once "CONGRATS ON HAVING REACHED LEVEL 30!"; you complete one…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Got as part of a humble bundle. Very enjoyable game, honestly I liked this a lot more than Balatro even. The characters are cool and have fun dialogue lines (but often become repetitive on a grind). Everyone had unique enough abilities that it didn't feel like I was playing the same character no matter which option. The art on all of the cards is very fun and adorable at times. For the story, its pretty fun but only will be about 3-4 hours and then the rest increases the difficulty of the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Played right up until 'for game balance reasons, you cannot make a poker hand of two pair'. Huh? Nothing about the narrative drew me in, finishing your attack requires both attack confirmation and end turn confirmation with no ability to turn this off in the settings. It's slow, it doesn't follow the rules of poker, I'm not sure why I'd play this over most of the other titles in my game library
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Once you start the game there is no way to restart your profile. Game is good but if you ever want to start again its impossible
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a neat concept to mix poker and card based combat, but it didn't really click for me. Most of my hands ended up not being very helpful.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yes, the visual inconsistency between the 3D menu and the 2D combat view looks awkward. Yes, the UI is confusing and leaves a lot to be desired. Yes, optimization in the main menu drops for no apparent reason. These minor shortcomings are easily mitigated by the terrific game design.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not playable on steamdeck or with controller. No d-pad mapping, it's entirely joystick and trigger. Maybe the game was fun? I don't know, I tapped out after 20 minutes of suffering the obnoxious controls.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A deckbuilding game with innovative gameplay, cool art style, lots of progression, voiced campaigns and number of different characters to play as. Highly recommended!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is an excellent singleplayer fantasy adventure deck builder with strong poker elements. There are many adventures and game modes to try, five characters with customizable decks to play with, and 30 levels worth of new cards and abilities to grind per character. I've played about 7 hours at this point and haven't even tried any of the other characters. I expect to get many dozens of hours of fun out of this game at this rate. Highly recommended!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's probably just me, but when I read "deckbuilding RPG with poker-powered combat" I assumed they'd offer a tutorial on how to play poker as well as the game. Nope, can't even attack properly if you don't know the poker hands. Shame, the voice-over and introduction to the story seemed interesting.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game uses Poker mechanics. Anyone who's ever played a couple of hours of Poker in their lives will tell you that losing streaks are commonplace. Don't know what I was thinking. Uninstalled, next game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Maybe I'm missing something, but there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of poker in this poker game. On offense, you can't tell what your opponent is going to respond with, so unless you have a really high single card or a decently high pair, it's basically random chance whether or not your attacks will work. On defense, you can see what you're being attacked with, but you have to use the same number of cards as your attacker, so having an actual poker hand doesn't matter in this scenario. The…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →how to make a boring card game speedrun sub 2 years
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While an interesting concept, the game suffers from a critically unbalanced card pool. Some characters can walk through every enemy without letting them act (like the Mage), and others offer really absurd power gaps between a "good" turn and a turn where you are ending the run (like Enchantress). Attempting to backtrack and do older missions to grind up mana for levels only results in you running into Lv 1 enemies that somehow now have the Divine Light Of Victory leaking from their pores, and…
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