Card Shark
Fair · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 7.5h
- Value
- $2.67/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics / Radeon HD 6550D or equivalent, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Card Shark is an adventure game full of cunning, intrigue, and delectable deceit. Enter a world where you’ll need to play your opponents better than you play your cards.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $3.99. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 30 in the 4 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Reigns ($2.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Detective Di: The Silk Rose Murders ($10.99, scores 60).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 4 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 7.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 586 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 483 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 7.5 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
87% start to 4% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 7.5-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
2 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 05:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game for me is a unique gem, a collection of clever minigames, built up on top of each other, wrapped in a unique intriguing story and beautiful art! I've played it twice, while also having friends watching the first playthrough, so it's a fun game to experience together. I will only note that although the game has different endings, playing a second time didn't feel too different, so I'd say it's a one shot...
Sadly, the game consist mostly of memorising quick time events, there's no build up of gameplay and tutorialisation assume you're gonna remember everything with inconsistant UI informations.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Card Shark scores 61/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1371720/card-sharkReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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