A rogue-lite video poker game where your money is your life!


Demo Build 1.1 (8/12/2024) showcases the basic mechanics of VPR including:

  • Video Poker Simulation
  • Battle Mechanics: winning hands deals damage to the enemy, and enemy attacks reduce your Credits. 
  • Stances and Statuses: Try to Block or Riposte enemy attacks without succumbing to Stun or Bleed.
  • Upgrade system: Every few hands choose an upgrade from one of three paths, unlocking stronger upgrades with progress.
  • Settings Menu: Including Upgrade Tracking, a Tutorial, Volume Controls and an Action Log that keeps track of every event.
  • Added difficulty settings
  • Minor bug fixes

Full Release of Video Poker Rogue will include:

  • More Enemies
  • More Upgrades
  • Difficulty Settings
  • Challenge Modes
  • Plenty to Unlock

Video Poker Rogue full release on Steam is tentatively set for the end of the year. 

Follow us on Discord for updates!


How to Play

Welcome to Video Poker Rogue!

Press the Bet button to set your Bet amount.

Higher risks bear higher rewards.

Your starting maximum Bet is based on the difficulty.

Press the “Draw” Button to deal 5 cards.

You start with 1 draw per hand, nice!

Click on the cards to Hold them between draws.

Held cards are indicated by a Blue Box.

Cards not held will be discarded between draws.

Try to make the best 5 card poker hand.

Hand Values are located on the PayTable.

Winnings are dealt as damage to the Enemy.

Every few hands, you will get a choice of upgrade.

Upgrades belong to one of three paths

Accumulating upgrades of the same path unlocks stronger upgrades.

Powerful artifacts will also appear, but can only be used once.

Every few hands, the Enemy will attack, dealing damage to your Credits!

Defeat the Enemy before they deplete your precious Credits!



Credits:

Card Sprites by Caz Wolf

Enemy Sprite by ozanoyunbozan

Enemy Background by craftpix.net

Icons and UI Features by Layer Lab

Additional Icons by lorc and skoll

Sound Effects:

Fantasy and Horror Libraries by Little Robot Sound Factory

Fantasy Sound Effects by Tinysized SFX

Additional Sound Effects by  wobbleboxx

Hit Sound by qubodup

Fireball Effect by Julien Matthey

Bird Sound Effect by robertopicone

Music:

Trotto by Porro (1300-1400) 

Sing care away (Scottish Folk Song)


StatusIn development
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
AuthorRegicideStudios
GenreCard Game, Strategy
Made withFL Studio, Godot, GIMP
Tags2D, Deck Building, Fantasy, poker, Retro, Roguelike, Roguelite, Singleplayer
Average sessionA few minutes
LanguagesEnglish
InputsMouse, Touchscreen, Smartphone
AccessibilityOne button

Development log

Comments

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It looks like any time I get the Crowned Knight at or under 60 health the game freezes up. Can still open setting and change the bet amount. Nothing else seems to work though.

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having a glitch where when the moment i run the game it just starts flashing like crazy/oscillates between a frame of the game and a blank screen and is unplayable

Minor bug.  If I get 2 pair and Jacks or Better has the same payout, it lists Jacks or better.  

For the ability that lets you change a card color once a round, it should work after you get your 2nd draw of cards.  It's not very good if you end the round immediately after the second cards are dealt

We'll fix that in the next update thanks for letting us know!

I have no idea where the bet button is, nor do I know if it's a button on my keyboard that I press.

Its the button to the left of the draw button. You cant change bet though until you get an upgrade to do so. We'll try to make that clearer, thanks for the feedback!

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Good game but if you try to change the suit of the wild card, it turns invisible

That's a solid bug catch thanks for letting us know!

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The concept is good.

The game become more interesting as you specialized in one of the 3 skill paths.

I hope to see more in your future updates :)

Some QoL suggestions :

  • A way to see what skills you have and on which hand they will trigger.
  • Some insight on how skills are evolved versions of previous ones, like shield bash level 1, level 2, etc.

Thanks so much for playing and for your feedback! We plan on addressing those issues so definitely come back for the next update!

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Video Poker Rogue Gameplay

https://youtu.be/j2iXMIw7Ej0

Hey, this is so cool, thanks for playing and posting this! Would it be possible for you to post a link to this page in the description?

Also, I think the audio is out of sync, just thought I should mention. Thanks again!