Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On!

And better than ever! Can’t get enough

I wanted to play a card game with my daughter. I didn’t want to read a novella before even being able to play solitaire. Then, you play a short game followed by a ton of dialogue. I deleted it after 10 minutes of gameplay.

Love this game, it’s been a blast to play. The point where it loses it’s fun for me is when there’s mechanics that aren’t explained. For example I still have yet to figure out what the skill “international star” does. Also, I have had horses that have raced all the way to 6 years of age, but one of my horses recently, who had been doing very well, lost its first race as an adult shortly into age 5, and I was told it was “at its physical limit” and I needed to retire it. This was extremely frustrating because it was a fantastic horse that could have won even more races and these retirement rules don’t line up with how retirement worked in other cases.

This game has an addictive game loop that is satisfying, addictive, and will kick your butt. It was one of the hidden gems on the Nintendo 3DS, that few people knew about. You get to raise horses and try to win as many races with them as you can. Horses can also be bred in order to produce stronger horses with favorable traits. The game is surprisingly deep, and challenging. My only gripe with this version of the game is that you don’t have the option to draw the path of your horse on the path in between solitaire rounds, and that you can only direct them in a straight line. I truly hope this game gets a sequel someday. Everyone should give it a try!

This game was initially very hard, but the developers listen and have made good changes to make it easier for average players like me. They now have an easier “normal” level, and the new challenges section is a series of tutorials that are actually helpful, as well as a daily extra bonus system. I love how breeding involves the genealogy and temperament of the horses, and also the mystery of not knowing how each horse will do. This game takes time to master but it’s well worth it if you have patience. My two gripes with the game are the annoying pop-up characters. It would be better if there wasn’t so much back and forth talk between them. Just get to the point! Also, I often run out of boosts which are frankly necessary to move forward, so much so that I usually only race once a day so I can get a new bonus to use, otherwise I would ruin my horse. If we won more money and got more boosts, I would play a lot more throughput the day. This is a great game and I highly recommend it!

I really do like this game and it’s very easy to binge play and lose track of time. My only 2 gripes which I knows other people mentioned is the learning curve and more importantly how the performance makes you heat up your phone. Now I’m not gonna complain that the game is hard games should be challenging here, but if someone is not used to playing solitaire, it’s gonna be frustrating fast. maybe adapt to the player or get more challenging as they have more success and the opposite vice versa. I understand that some games become impossible because you want the feeling of the horse aging and things becoming harder, but it’s not obvious and I think you should make that more clear. Plus, there’s also the more important flaw the performance. I know this was originally built for DS and you made updated graphics and and it’s not unusual for phones to get warm for certain games… but it’s gets SPICY! perhaps you can have a different graphics mode for the running that is 2-D much like before. That way players have the option to have something less intensive. I want to rate it higher because it does deserve more plays, but the performance issue needs to be regarded at the very least

So glad this is on iOS/macOS now!! Too bad I can't buy it permanently...

The game is definitely built to be pay to win. The other races are infinitely more powerful than you even when you buy items, you never quite have enough coins to get the really good items either. And the constant forced “advice” upon losing a race is always “your horse ran out of energy” there is zero way to conserve energy making this a moot point. Apple…curate the content you allow in arcade…this is embarrassing

I don’t have a huge amount of time to play games. Perhaps this game becomes more satisfying once you sink a large amount of time in, breed horses, or whatever the game holds later on, but early on the game does nothing to keep me interested. The races are really hard and it doesn’t seem to matter much what I do; I win a race and lose a race and win a race and lose a race on a repeating cycle. The game gives advice each time you lose. The advice is often to conserve stamina, but that doesn’t seem to ultimately make a difference in the race outcomes. Sometimes the advice is to buy items from the store, although the store is not available every round and you get little to no money (the currency required for store purchases) for failing races. The solitaire mixed with racing is interesting and the game seems like it could maybe be addictive down the line. I just don’t feel incentivized to keep playing to find out.

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