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Poker Quest: Swords and Spades

Poker Quest: Swords and Spades

Poker Quest is a fantasy roguelike where players use a standard 52-card deck to take on fierce enemies in epic battles. Featuring over 20 unique heroes, thousands of items, and deep gameplay that will test even the most experienced players.

Released Nov 14, 2022 Developer Playsaurus Platforms Windows · Mac Card GameRoguelikeRoguelike DeckbuilderDeckbuildingDifficult
View on Steam ↗ $14.99 (US · as of 2026-09-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.

86.6%positive724 reviews
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Doesn't take too long to get into it. Not very much to do with 'poker' generally, but still fun. So far dislike playing the Queen the most.”

— a player, Steam review · 40 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Quite frankly i love this game. I have played it a desint amont of time. and its just good fun”

— a player, Steam review · 123 hrs played
Not recommended · 0 found this helpful

“There's something really fun and exciting about a long, high-stakes RPG-esque deckbuilding campaign that's constantly challenging and full of interesting cards and some really fun minigames. But ultimately I cannot recommend such a glacially-slow, addictive game with clunky…”

— a player, Steam review · 54 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. History through 2026-08 via SteamCharts; self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.

273all-time peak
0 100 200 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 122 avg · Sep 2021

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.

49achievements
2.8%median completion
0.2%rarest: Tricky Warlock
87.8% of players 65.4% of players 54.9% of players 49.2% of players 46.1% of players 44.7% of players 39.6% of players 38.9% of players 28.9% of players 22.8% of players 22.5% of players 22.5% of players 21.6% of players 18.5% of players 17.8% of players 14.2% of players 12.7% of players 10.0% of players 7.8% of players 7.6% of players 7.1% of players 6.0% of players 4.3% of players 3.8% of players 2.8% of players 2.7% of players 2.4% of players 2.1% of players 1.9% of players 1.9% of players 1.8% of players 1.5% of players 1.4% of players 1.1% of players 1.0% of players 1.0% of players 0.8% of players 0.6% of players 0.6% of players 0.6% of players 0.6% of players 0.5% of players 0.5% of players 0.5% of players 0.4% of players 0.4% of players 0.3% of players 0.2% of players 0.2% of players 87.8% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
87.8%Castle Hearts — Discovered Castle Hearts.
65.4%Victory — Win.
54.9%Death's Door — Reach exactly 1 life.
Rarest badges of honor
0.2%Tricky Warlock — Get Victory+++ in the Burnination Challenge with Warlock.
0.2%Improvisation — Get Victory+++ in the Unprepared+ Challenge with 12 different heroes
0.3%30 Challenges — Get Victory+++ in 30 Challenge Runs.

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Nov 14, 2022
Poker Quest 1.0, now out of Early Access

Today is the day! After four years of development, Poker Quest: Swords and Spades is leaving early access! With over 20 characters, 1500+ possible items, as well as daily runs, custom runs, mod suppor

Apr 22, 2022
Poker Quest v62 - Major update! New hero, graphics, and more

* NEW HERO: The Rainbow Knight! * Phoenix can be killed by Enflame once again. * Corrected texts on some items (Holy Mace, Splendid Sword of Thunder, Splendid Axe of Flame, Dark Warhammer of Pairs) an

Oct 21, 2021
🔴 Poker Quest Live Stream

Join us for a livestream of Poker Quest a new Fantasy Playing Card Roguelike at 5pm PDT on 10/22/2021. Afterwards we'll be hosting a developer QA at 6pm PDT so be sure to join us on Discord and ask us

Oct 08, 2021
Poker Quest v59 - The Blacksmith

* NEW HERO! The Blacksmith. He can upgrade all his items for a large amount of energy. * IMPORTANT: Starvation no longer kills you. Instead, it takes you to a minimum of 1 life. An exception is made f

Sep 23, 2021
Poker Quest v58 - The Witch

* NEW HERO: THE WITCH! She likes to hoard cards. * IMPORTANT CHANGE TO CURSE: Rebalanced most Curse enemies, and clarified their effects with new tooltips: "Arbitrary" and "Distinct" item targeting. P

Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.

GenresAdventure, Indie, RPG, Strategy
Player tagsCard Game · Roguelike · Roguelike Deckbuilder · Deckbuilding · Difficult · Poker · Singleplayer · Strategy · Replay Value · Roguelite · Turn-Based · Card Battler (Steam store community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * *
Achievements49
Official sitehttps://pokerquest.com
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 Processor: Intel® Core™ Duo 2.4GHz or equivalent Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: 2006 or newer graphics card. Storage: 1 GB available space Sound Card: Any sound card.