#pocket card jockey Ride On

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MOVE ASIDE UMA MUSUME, THE REAL HORSE JOCKEY MOBILE GAME HAS ENTERED THE CHAT.

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Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On! now available for Switch

From Gematsu

Game Freak has released��Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On! for Switch via Nintendo eShop, the developer announced.

Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On! first launched for Apple Arcade on January 20, 2023.

Here is an overview of the game, via Game Freak:

About

Guide your steed to the finish line by playing solitaire! Saddle up for this unique solitaire and horse-racing hybrid from Game Freak, creators of the Pokemon franchise! Pocket Card Jockey originally released to great acclaim on the Nintendo 3DS, and while the basic rules are the same, the racing segments have been reborn in glorious 3D!

Key Features

Solitaire as Simple as Can Be – Focus your mind and clear cards with subsequent numbers in quick succession. The more cards you clear, the better your horse’s mood will be—which helps them charge energy during races!

Mind Your Positioning While Racing – Your position on the track determines the difficulty of your solitaire rounds. There are also special cards that can be picked up if you run over them while racing. These cards provide a variety of benefits, including leveling up your horse, learning new skills, or improving your performance in a race. Be careful though, because running too much on the outside of the track will cause your horse to lose precious stamina!

Go For Broke in the Homestretch – If your steed has charged tons of energy and has plenty of stamina left in the tank, they’ll sprint their heart out once you enter the homestretch. Make sure not to run into other horses as you aim for first place!

Entrust Difficult Races to Future Generations – Take the beloved steeds you’ve grown on the racetrack and pair them up on the farm. The foal they produce will inherit their abilities and become your new partner on the racecourse! Breed generation after generation of racehorses in your quest to conquer all the biggest, most prestigious races in the world!

Watch the Switch launch trailer below.

Switch Trailer

Japanese

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me: my three year-old has a lot of tough G1 races coming up. I could really use some items!

chirp, for the next four in-game years:

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Link: EVERYBODY SHUT UP AND LOOK AT THESE SILLY HORSES!!! 【POCKET CARD JOCKEY: RIDE ON!】

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The GEEK BROS return just in time to cover the Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase 2.21.2024. focused on Nintendo Switch games coming in the first half of 2024. NOW PLAYING on your favorite podcasting app or listen here - https://webegeekspc.com/keepin-up-with-the-geek-bros-podcast-nintendo-direct-showcase-feb-24/ 

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Fic prompt - Scully goes on a date with the Perfect guy. Mulder is angry, decides to go to a bar to find a one night stand. He just gets drunk and TLG bring him home where... He finds Scully sleeping on his bed

I started this forever ago, but could never really get it to flow and didn’t know how to end it. Reading through it now… it’s a little uneven, has not so much as whispered in a beta’s ear, but I kind of like where I left off and… I have so many unfinished works sitting in docs I’m letting this one fly free. Thanks for the prompt so long ago, Anon.

Dale. The guy’s fucking name was Dale. Who named their kid Dale, anyway? Perfect smile, perfect teeth, perfectly coiffed hair, polite, a doctor, and so damned charming that even Mulder had trouble not liking him.

He had a sailboat. He was taking Scully out on it. He was somehow more Vineyard than Mulder himself – a guy from fucking Chilmark. And Scully was eating it up. She was excited about the date, had been talking about it all day, ad nauseum. Well, he was pretty sure she had. He’d had to tune her out for his own mental well-being.

You’d drink, too, he’d said, maybe out loud, and it took him a moment to register the warm hand that clapped his back, the presence next to his barstool.

“I know, buddy,” Frohike said, eyebrows like caterpillars crawling across his brow, his hand squeezing Mulder’s shoulder.

“Frohike?” Mulder asked, surprised as all hell to see his friend standing there.

“Thanks, Nadine,” Frohike said to the barmaid, who handed over Mulder’s cell phone and credit card, both of which Frohike slipped into Mulder’s sport coat pocket. “Let’s get you home.”

Mulder stood woozily, and the older man had to occasionally correct his trajectory as he stumbled past the billiard tables that Casey had pulled three booths to squeeze into the back room of the bar.

The Vanagon was idling out front, Byers behind the wheel. Langly was riding shotgun, rubbernecking out the window and snapping a tight knot of green gum. The valet looked pissed and said something to Frohike that Mulder couldn’t make out as the little hacker tried to maneuver the much taller man through the open door.

“Keep your pants on, key jockey!” Frohike clapped back as he slid the big door closed. Mulder slumped against the window, miserable, sliding down the vinyl seat as Byers pulled away from the curb.

“What happened?” Langly asked, turning around and peering at Mulder through smudged glasses.

“Scully’s on a date,” Frohike said carefully. Byers’ eyes flicked to Mulder’s in the rearview, but he said nothing.

Langly nodded knowingly. “She been dickmatized? Is this dude some kind of punk?”

“No,” Mulder burped, righting himself in the seat as the contents of his stomach sloshed. “He’s actually a really nice guy.” He directed his comment to Langly’s second question, adamantly refusing to acknowledge his first.

“Let’s just get Mulder back to headquarters,” Frohike said, glaring at Langly. “Let him sleep it off.”

Mulder grabbed onto the side of the van as his head began to spin, and the thought of sleeping on the guys’ lumpy couch surrounded by the close-quarters smell of hot circuitry and day-old nachos triggered a violent urge to propel the contents of his stomach out the window beside him. He took a deep breath and steeled himself.

“No!” he burped again. “Take me home please.”

When Byers’ took the exit for Old Town, Mulder unclenched, and that’s when the urge to puke turned into a biological inevitability.

The look on his face must have conveyed some real urgency, because the next thing he knew, the van had swung over to a curb and Frohike already had the door open. He fell to his knees on the floor of the Volkswagen and hurled an arc of vomit onto the sidewalk outside the van.

“Whoa,” he heard Langly’s nasally voice pipe up when his coughing and gagging had died down considerably. “That’s some serious upchucking. I think he shot it past the fire hydrant.”

He spit once and then looked down in his hand to see a wad of Burger King napkins that Frohike had pressed into it. He mopped his face as the other man slid the sliding door closed and Byers merged back into traffic.

Mulder settled himself gingerly back onto the big bench seat.

“I feel a lot better,” he said pathetically, the sweat on his forehead cooling.

“Well you smell a lot worse,” Frohike replied, scrunching his nose in distaste.

“Bet Dale can’t hit the fire hydrant,” Mulder said.

“Dale can probably hold his liquor,” Frohike grumbled, and the puke-induced euphoria he felt withered, replaced by a humble misery. He wondered where Scully was now, if Dale had let her take the helm. He wondered how big the boat was, if it had a sleeping berth. If Dale and Scully had ever used it.

“You’d drink too, if-” Mulder started, but his words died on his tongue as it came to him what he was about to say. Out loud. To the guys.

The cab of the vehicle took on an embarrassed silence and after a long moment he looked up to find Langly reaching a hand back to him, a foil-wrapped stick of gum on offer along with a look of knowing sympathy.

Mulder took the gum with a nod of thanks and stuck the sheet of spearmint in his mouth, chasing out the taste of bile and sick and rampant jealousy.

When Byers pulled the van in front of Hegal Place, Mulder had trouble meeting anyone’s eye. Frohike was on the sidewalk waiting for him when he tipped himself out of the back of the van, sobriety duking it out with whatever liquor still swam through his bloodstream.

Frohike looked up at him with a kind and steady hand on his arm. “You want me to walk you up?” he asked.

Mulder felt around his pockets for his keys, locating them after a quick search. “No,” he said. “I got it from here.”

Frohike nodded and patted him one more time. “Put a trash can next to your bed, huh? Drink some water.”

Mulder thanked him and turned on his heel, missing the look the three guys gave each other before watching him ascend the stairs and fumble his way through the front door of his building. Eschewing the elevator and up the stairs because moving was better than standing still, down the hallway – where he’d thought he’d told her he loved her in as many words as he could, and still she went out with Dale – and through his front door. He had it bad, he realized, as he stepped through his door and into his apartment. He had it so bad that he thought he could smell a trace of her perfume – the expensive stuff she kept in her sock drawer – when he walked through the door of his own apartment. Christ.

He toed off his shoes and made immediately for the shower, catching the alleyway stench of whatever vomit hadn’t made it all the way to the sidewalk. Standing under the hot spray, he rethought some of his more recent choices.

If he were honest with himself, he’d gone to the bar tonight to pick up a woman and take her home. It had felt like a wild, righteous idea at the time, made on an indignant huff just as Scully was waving goodbye and Dale put his hand on her back to lead her through the double doors of the Hoover building. A decision made with jealousy boiling through his veins, but abandoned when he sat down at the bar and pictured another woman with her head thrown back on his sheets. Anonymous sex didn’t hold the appeal it once had for whatever reason, and he’d ordered a drink instead. And then a second, and a third and on down the line.

What would he say to Scully if she were here now, he wondered, toweling himself off. What do you see in him? That was obvious. He bent over and drank water directly from the faucet, slurping until the headache he felt coming on was assuaged. He looked at himself in the mirror. Why him and not me? He thought, and sighed, padding naked into his bedroom – not bothering to turn on the light – and sliding on a pair of pajama pants he pulled from a drawer.

He lowered himself into the bed, dejected, tired, still a little woozy, when a sound – a quick inhale of breath – sent him shooting back up to standing, heart pounding, instantly sober.

“Mulder?” came a groggy voice from the other side of his bed, and it took him a moment to reconcile his partner’s voice and its place in his dark bedroom.

“Scully?” he said, his voice sounding two octaves too high. “Jesus.”

He reached over and switched on a bedside lamp.

“I’m sorry,” she said breathily, blinking rapidly. She scooted up on the mattress and back into the pillows. Her hair was mussed and she wore a shell-shocked look. “What time is it?”

Mulder was still so surprised to see her that he couldn't put together a coherent answer. “I-what are you doing here?”

Scully looked over at him, took in his pajamas and his bare chest, his still-damp hair, and a look of profound embarrassment washed over her face.

“I’m sorry,” she said again. “I was waiting for you and then-”

Maybe Mulder wasn’t entirely sober yet, because his brain still felt absolutely befuddled. “Where’s Dale?” he asked, sounding rather like a simpleton, like he expected Dr. Dale to come sauntering into his bedroom at any moment, wearing one of Mulder’s robes, handing over a cold martini to Scully and saying ‘great bedroom for a shag, thanks for letting us use it.’

“Out on his boat, I imagine,” she said, not meeting his eye.

“But why are you not… on his boat?” Mulder lowered himself back onto the mattress, perching on the edge. “Wait, did he try something? Are you okay?” He leapt back up to standing.

“It's fine, Mulder, he didn’t do anything. I…got seasick,” she said, finally turning to look at him, a dubious, slightly jokey look on her face.

“But you don’t get seasick.” He was still standing.

She gave him a look like he was being deliberately obtuse. It started to occur to him that she was here on purpose, not because something calamitous had happened.

“But you were excited about it,” he said, lowering himself once again back to the bed. “You kept talking about it.”

“Mulder…”

“Scully?”

She thunked her head back against the headboard.

“Maybe I was hoping you’d talk me out of it.”

“You we’re hoping I’d-“ his heart soared momentarily, a bird taking flight. And then it fell out of the sky.

“Where have you been?” Scully asked, head tilted to look at him, her brow creasing, eyes narrowed.

“I was… at a bar.”

“Oh.” Her cheeks turned scarlet in the warm yellow light of the lamp and a look came over her face like a dawning realization. “Were you… there for someone?”

His life flashed before his eyes. Scully could tell when he lied to her, and he had gone to the bar with the intention of picking up a woman.

When he didn’t answer, Scully’s eyes widened and she stood suddenly. “I have made,” she said, looking around as if for a purse or a set of keys, “an appalling miscalculation.”

Mulder wasn’t sure if she was talking to him or herself, but suddenly she was on the move, darting through his bedroom door in a rapid exodus.

“Scully wait!” he called out, following her, just hoping to catch her before she got to the door. He felt like if she went through it, there was a real chance he might never see her again. Dana Scully didn’t do embarrassment well.

But he almost stumbled into her when he reached the hallway. She had pulled up short next to his billiard ball coat rack, her nose scrunched up in a look of minor revulsion. He had left his discarded clothes and shoes in a rumpled trail from the door to his bathroom, and the fumes coming off of them were sour and unpleasant.

“Mulder, it smells like vomit.”

He doubted she could see his chagrined expression, backlit as he was by the light spilling from his bedroom, but he shrugged.

“I… may have tied one on,” he admitted.

“You went out drinking?” Her face looked like she was working on a very hard math problem. “Alone?”

“Well, the Gunmen came and got me.” While he was sure she was glad he hadn’t driven drunk, he knew that’s not what she was getting at. “I was upset,” he finally admitted.

“Upset?”

He took a hesitant step toward her, watched her eyes slowly climb up to his face the closer he got to her.

“Jealous.”

Her gaze was moving rapidly back and forth between his two eyes. “Jealous?” Her voice barely above a whisper. His stomach did a loop, like a swallow over a corn field.

“You wanted me to talk you out of your date?” She smiled and sighed, looked down and away from him. “What’s wrong with Dale?”

Her gaze climbed back up, lingering a little, he thought, on his bare chest.

“Nothing’s wrong with Dale. That’s the problem.”

Mulder reached out a hand, wanted run it through her hair, but grazed her shoulder instead.

“You looking for a fixer upper? I know at least five different-“

“Mulder,” she said, exasperated. “Shut the fuck up.”

He did so immediately.

[coffeetime88]

Nintendo Partner Showcase February 2024

Honey, Microsoft Shrunk the Kids (Grounded)

Full Metal Alchemist X Neir Automata (Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist)

The Cha Cha Slide, Part 5 (Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure)

Final Emblem: Ogre Saga (Unicorn Overlord)

I think this is what people expect from Pokémon for some reason (Monster Hunter Stories)

DISNEY EPIC MICKEY REBRUSHED

V for Vendetta DLC (Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance)

Bond With Your [Younger/Older] Brother! (Star Wars Battlefront Classic Collection)

Fart of the Wild (South Park: Snow Day)

Hyperlight Kirito [with 20 player co-op] (Sword Art Online Fractured Daydream)

Armored Core 7 (Gundam Breaker 4)

Do You Think Surgeons Will Also Use This As Practice? [with 16 player co-op] (Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble)

Slime Tiktok Meets Engineering Tiktok (World of Goo 2)

Dark Cloud 3: Animal Crossing [with 4 player co-op] (Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time)

Are You Telling Me A Hermit Crabbed This Shell? (Another Crab's Treasure)

Circus Celeste (Penny's Big Breakaway)

Didn't Alpharad Already Do This? (Suika Game 2-Player Battle Paid DLC)

Drill-y Kong Country (Pepper Grinder)

They Put Gambling In My Solitaire (Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On!)

Hey Tumblr, Can You Tell Me About This In A Sane Manner? (Snuffkin: Melody of Moominvalley)

2D Africa Platformer (Tales of Kenzera: ZAU)

Demon Slayer Mario Party (Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- Sweep the Board!)

Skyrim Again (Kingdom Come Deliverance - Royal Edition)

Don't Forget the Konami Code (Contra: Operation Galuga)

Ye Olde Disco Elysium (Pentiment)

Game Grumps: Return to Nine-Ball Island [with 30 player co-op] (Endless Ocean Luminous)

[intothecast]

Into the Aether | 222 | Bye Bye Boucheron

Since recording we've learned that Boucheron's single defining trait is that he loves to read. More like BOOKeron, am I right? Hmm. We'll workshop it.

Discussed: Fire Emblem Engage, Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On!, A Slight Chance of Sawblades, Perfect Grind, Final Fantasy V, Persona 3 + 4

Listen to the show here 😘

[reikaniichan]

“i was going to ask about something else, but. it’s seems you’ve got a situation..?”

“yeah they have this weird horse game they’ve gotten really into.”

“–also the art is super cute! look at the horses and their lil nubbin legs asasfsasfgfdssff–“ (shirt: I Am a ARTIST… I have never seen a horse IN MY LIFE…)

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the game is question is Pocket Card Jockey. it sure is a game.. with cards and horses…

it starts and player character loses a race.. and then, the next horse they try to ride is stubborn and kicks them off.. and they get trampled… (don’t worry they get better lol)

the art is very cute :)

[glitterguts13]

UNO REVERSE CARD! What are some games YOU recommend for the Steam sale! (I do not use Steam I just wanna know what you enjoy ORZ)

Omg do NOT get me started. I'll talk about games on sale too but let me gush about some other systems as well!

Here are some of my all-time favorites spanning different platforms!

PS5

Honestly, I spent so much money on this stupid console only to play F2P games on it (AKA Genshin and Honkai) but I also fucking LOVE Warframe. You can also play it on PC and Switch (don't play it on a Switch Jesus Christ don't even try) but it's free and eats up so much of my time-

Switch

Pokemon (I have just about every game ever made across all the different consoles) but for some slightly lesser-known titles: Paeleo Pines: you get to collect and care for adorable colorful dinosaurs! (Also on Steam)

Fashion Dreamer: the Switch version of the old DS and 3SD Style Savvy games (a lot of people say it's lacking content, but I've loved it)

Pocket Jockey Ride On!: horse racing meets solitaire, just let it up, super addictive!

Muse Dash: a rhythm game with so many fucking tracks it's insane (Also on Steam, would recommend getting it on Steam, much more music choices and frequent updates) Mythic Ocean: a story-driven game with multiple endings featuring strange and beautiful sea creatures (seriously the fact no one talks about this game is criminal)

Dead or Alive xtreme 3

STEAM

Cassette Beasts: sort of like Pokemon but only in the sense you catch creatures and battle them. Very different and has a massive amount of content.

Doronko Wanko: I believe this game is just free to play. You won't get a lot out of it, but you play as a Pomeranian getting his owners house as dirty as possible. Fun and adorable little time waster.

Gris: A visually stunning little puzzle game about overcoming grief.

Palworld: Listen, I don't agree with them about stealing designs from Pokemon (as a die-hard Pokemon fan) but...I got it for free and I have to admit, it is fun as fuck.

Penko Park: NO ONE EVER TALKS ABOUT THIS GAME it's like Pokemon Snap but with creepy little monsters instead. Has a really cool style!

Tinykin: amazing puzzle game where you use these little alien guys to help you throughout levels while collecting shit. Played it for like 20 hours straight and finished it in one sitting. Don't do that, but it's super fun.

American Truck Simulator: LISTEN, LISTEN I KNOW IT'S WEIRD but goddamn if it is not the most relaxing shit to play. Put on a youtube video essay in the background and just jump in for an hour or so...I love it, and I want all the expansion passes one day.

[mandangashams]

[S24-V02] Pocket Card Jockey: Ride on!

VIDEOJUEGO (PC, digital) | Terminado el 12/3/2024

Es la segunda versión del juego de los caballitos y el solitario de las cartas, que he aprovechado a jugar sabiendo que estaba gratis en el Apple Arcade. No cambia mucho respecto al que ya jugué en mi querida 3DS, aunque ahora le han metido aspectos de RPG (como habilidades para los caballos) y el sistema para conseguir nuevos tiene más sentido, pero es decepcionante que la historia sea literalmente la misma y los añadidos no aporten demasiado nuevo a la experiencia, aunque engancha que da gusto. Una vez consigues ganar la carrera mundial de la música épica la cosa se puede dar por terminada.

6/10

[gertlushgaming]

Brothers A Tale Of Two Sons Remake Review (PlayStation 5)

Brothers A Tale Of Two Sons Remake Review, Guide two brothers on an epic journey of discovery, loss, adventure, and mystery remade for the latest generation of graphics, performance, and gameplay. Play in single-player mode or local co-op with a friend. This is one journey you will never forget.

Brothers A Tale Of Two Sons Remake Review Pros:

- Nice graphics. - 17.06GB download size. - Platinum trophy. - Bonus art gallery menu. - Graphics settings - performance and quality. - Accessibility options - the highlight of interactive points (high/default/off), silhouette of your characters (off/default/high), colorblind setting, screenshake, and vibration. - Adventure gameplay. - How to play menu option. - In-game cutscenes and character interactions. - Uses its language. - A full 3D world with 360-degree camera control with the shoulder buttons. - Two-player local support Co-op. - Does a really good job of conveying the story without just saying it, expressions and noises help set the atmosphere. - Sit on benches to get a glorious view of your current location. - Find wells to spit in. - Both the Wells and benches act like Collectibles in the game. - 3rd person view. - Slight puzzle elements throughout. - Ask for directions by showing your scroll to people. - In solo play you control both brothers, one on each side of the controller. - A very impactful and powerful story. - The brothers can interact with the same things and people but sometimes what they do is different. - It's a really good Sunday afternoon game. Brothers A Tale Of Two Sons Remake Review Cons: - There are no subtitles for the brief voice parts. - Cannot rebind controls. - I'm never sure when you last hit a checkpoint. - The camera is very sluggish with no sensitivity sliders. - Slight performance hiccups like juddering and slowdown even on the performance graphics setting. - You do not get any in-game tutorials or pop-up text. - Cannot skip cutscenes. - It's not the fastest loading time for a Playstation 5 game. Related Post: Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On! Review (Nintendo Switch OLED) Brothers A Tale Of Two Sons Remake: Official website. Developer: Avantgarden Games Publisher: 505 Games Store Links - PlayStation Read the full article

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POCKET CARD JOCKEY: Ride On! Official Trailer | Nintendo Direct 2024 | HD

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Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On! è ora disponibile su Switch

Game Freak ha rilasciato Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On! su Switch (Nintendo eShop), ha annunciato lo sviluppatore. Read the full article

[44gamez]

The best mobile games to play in 2024

There’s no scarcity ofbest mobile games in 2024, and it may be onerous to sift by the sheer variety of video games downloadable in your cellphone. That’s the place we are available in: Over time, we’ve stuffed up our telephones with cell video games to seek out the perfect video games throughout genres. In search of a hidden object recreation? A singular tower protection title? A turn-based RPG or traditional side-scrolling runner? Let’s dig into the best mobile games you'll be able to obtain at the moment. Most of those best mobile games can be found on each Android and iOS gadgets. A number of them are free to obtain, with in-game purchases to unlock extra recreation time or further gadgets. However others require an extra subscription service, like Apple Arcade or Netflix.

Krispee Street

The place to play: Accessible on iOS through Apple Arcade or Netflix Merely put, Krispee Street is a hidden object recreation — its crowded visuals conceal numerous little particulars to hunt out, a few of which inform little tales throughout the contained worlds. There’s a lot to like concerning the foolish, colourful artwork fashion and the characters that inhabit the world, which is predicated on a webcomic. (I hadn’t heard of the webcomic earlier than entering into Krispee Street, so don’t let unfamiliarity scare you off.) Regardless of Krispee Street being visually chaotic with lots of of issues — characters and objects — to seek out inside its margins, I might describe the expertise of enjoying the sport as something however. After I desire a cell recreation that’s completely chill, I pull up Krispee Road and get inspecting. —Nicole Carpenter

Gubbins

The place to play: Accessible on Android and iOS I noticed somebody describe Gubbins as “Scrabble on acid,” and yeah, that checks out. Studio Folly’s phrase recreation is a extra laid-back model of Scrabble, however with pesky little creatures — the gubbins — that assist or harm the board. Like in Scrabble, you begin with a bunch of letters (utilizing them reveals extra letters, till you run out) to put out in your board to make phrases for factors. You need to amass a whole lot of factors by utilizing your letters (and gubbins) creatively. Among the modifiers will fill in letters routinely, as an example, or lock up components of the board. It’s a type of video games that’s straightforward to play however more durable to grasp, making it a cell recreation that I usually come again to. Plus, the colours and music merely rule. —NC

Honkai: Star Rail

The place to play: Accessible on Android and iOS Honkai: Star Rail is the explanation I ensure that my cellphone is properly charged earlier than leaving for a day trip. Genshin Affect creator Hoyoverse launched this gacha recreation final spring, and I've discovered it to be the proper recreation to play whereas out and about. This goofy sci-fi RPG has turn-based fight that feels nice on my cellphone’s small display. And I like that I can sync progress as I play on PC and my iPad so I can simply chip away at common duties. Honkai: Star Rail has charming characters and gorgeous graphics that look surprisingly nice on my cellphone. It turns a prolonged bus trip into the proper alternative to compensate for an occasion or lastly end a quest I’ve been pushing aside. —Ana Diaz

Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On!

The place to play: Accessible on iOS through Apple Arcade Recreation Freak, greatest identified for Pokémon, has a much less iconic recreation that must be extra well-known: Pocket Card Jockey. It was launched initially on Nintendo 3DS in Japan in 2013 and got here to English-speaking markets in 2016. However the recreation’s discovered new life on Apple Arcade with Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On! The premise is similar as the unique, however with a 3D twist on the horse racing factor. You see, Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On! is each a horse racing role-playing recreation and assortment recreation the place races embody fast-paced rounds of solitaire. It’s pleasant — simply take a look at these little horses. —NC

Two Dots

The place to play: Accessible on Android and iOS Two Dots is a traditional that stands the take a look at of time. Although it was launched in 2014, Two Dots nonetheless will get updates and extra ranges, the place you’re tasked with assembly goals by connecting coloured dots. There are a shocking variety of other ways for these ranges to play out, which means a ton of challenges. However Two Dots additionally has a hidden object mode, too, so as to add in a bit extra variety within the gameplay. —NC

Laya’s Horizon

The place to play: Accessible on Android and iOS through Netflix Video games Laya’s Horizon matches an entire dang open-world exploration recreation onto your cellphone. The sport was created by the builders of the viral hits Alto’s Journey and Alto’s Odyssey, and sends gamers on a full 3D journey the place you discover by gliding by the sky. What actually makes this a simple advice for me is that it pairs a easy however lovely polygonal artwork fashion with a contact management scheme that really makes it really feel good to fly. Add the truth that this it’s only a good, enjoyable recreation to play and also you’ve received the recipe for a refined cell recreation. —AD

Bad North: Jotunn Version

The place to play: Accessible on Android and iOS Tower protection is a traditional style, however Bad North: Jotunn Version provides it a roguelike, real-time technique twist. That’s a whole lot of jargon to elucidate it, however the premise is easy: Viking invaders are attacking your island, and also you’re the one tasked with main the defenses towards the invaders whereas evacuating everybody else. Every fast spherical takes place on a procedurally generated island, which means that’s a ton of variation between rounds. The aesthetics of the sport look fairly easy, however past that facade is a deep technique recreation. —NC

Sneaky Sasquatch

The place to play: Accessible on iOS through Apple Arcade The overall viewers for Sneaky Sasquatch will probably skew younger, however there’s a motive it’s such a extensively beloved and extremely rated recreation on iOS. You play as a sasquatch that rummages by trash and campsites to seek out meals and helpful gadgets. The start of the sport emphasizes stealth components as you evade the eyes of fearful campers, however this recreation accommodates a lot extra. You possibly can fish, play minigames, race automobiles, get a job, gown up, and even enhance your own home. RAC7 nonetheless releases common updates with new content material, too. Earlier than lengthy, nobody will be capable of cease the sasquatch’s meteoric rise to grow to be mayor of the city. —AD

Pokémon Go

The place to play: Accessible on Android and iOS You’ve heard of Pokémon Go, however perhaps you haven’t realized that it’s nonetheless going robust, with common updates and tons of Pokémon to catch. Should you’re in some way not acquainted, Pokémon Go is a mobile-only recreation developed by Niantic; you stroll round your neighborhood — or farther! — to hunt out and catch Pokémon. Past that primary premise, there’s additionally a battle system for holding on to gyms and battling your buddies. Should you’re somebody with that “gotta catch ’em all mentality,” you gained’t be capable of put Pokémon Go down. —NC

Jetpack Joyride

The place to play: Accessible on Android and iOS, whereas Jetpack Joyride 2: Bullet Rush is obtainable on iOS through Apple Arcade One other traditional cell recreation, Jetpack Joyride is what it says on the tin: It’s an infinite runner the place you’re jetpacking as an alternative of working, dodging obstacles in more and more tough ranges. It was first launched in 2011 by Halfbrick Studios, nevertheless it’s nonetheless going robust with gameplay updates. Jetpack Joyride has a sequel, Jetpack Joyride 2: Bullet Rush, which is obtainable on Apple Arcade, however the unique continues to be value retaining downloaded in your cellphone. —NC Join the Read the full article

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Game Freak's Freakiest Game is Back

As the Nintendo 3DS digital storefront meets an untimely end, it's been heartening to see some of the games I feared would be lost to time popping up in unexpected places. Pocket Card Jockey, one of the many small experiments by the team behind Pokémon, was a game as successful as it was ridiculous about racing horses by playing solitaire — the better at solitaire you are, the better your horse will perform. It's a nonsensical premise, and the game knows it.

The opening moments (this is real!!) find your protagonist dying in a horse-related accident, followed by an angelic resurrection on the condition that you're to win a derby race in your lifetime or be sent to Hell. To make things fair, the angel blesses you with the ability to ride horses as well as you can play solitaire.

Each race involves playing quick rounds of the card game to build up points which can be spent directing your horse around the track based on where they're most comfortable — inside or outside the pack of your competitors. There's a lot more to think about on a race-by-race basis than I can succinctly write out here, and time spent outside the track can present players with a possibly overwhelming web of decisions as you begin to buy and breed horses, all of which I think is the game's greatest fault. While the core loop of playing solitaire and racing is a dream, managing the happiness, stats, and abilities of horses while also worrying about placement on a moment-to-moment basis can feel like elements that distract for players seeking a breezy time.

Despite my grievances with the learning curve, I absolutely adored the game, and would go as far as saying it's one of the best titles ever released on the 3DS. The truth of my gripes with the visual and mechanic clutter is that after a while, I began engaging with and loving everything the game has to offer. The genius of Pocket Card Jockey lies in the understanding that solitaire by itself has always been a perfect game to take on the go, and layering any kind of progression atop it only supercharges the desire to keep returning in free moments. As the 3DS storefront faces impending closure, I'm thrilled to know the game — like its jockey protagonist — will get a second chance at life via today's release on Apple Arcade.

Director Masao Taya spoke to Giovanni Colantonio about the release over at Digital Trends:

“With Apple Arcade, which requires absolutely no in-app purchase beyond the subscription service fees, there was no need to forcefully remodel the game into an F2P style, so we figured that we’d do our best to make the fans happy,” Taya says.

“When it was made public that the game would be added to the Apple Arcade lineup, there was quite a big reaction in Japan, with Pocket Card Jockey trending on Twitter,” Taya says. “I was really surprised when the number of new unread items on my Twitter app showed up as 999. It impressed on me the number of players who’d been waiting for this.”

I was curious how the game, which uses the top screen of the 3DS for horse racing and the bottom for solitaire and movement, would translate to the single screen of an iPhone, and have been pleasantly surprised so far. While the number of on-screen elements can be a bit difficult to parse at first, I found myself settling right back into old habits as soon as I'd made it through the tutorial.

The dream, after Ride On! was initially announced, was that taking a game famous for its quick-burst gameplay and making it available on an even more convenient piece of hardware would possibly help it surpass the original. I am absolutely an outlier in that I usually have my 3DS on me when I'm out and about, always ready to chip away at a project in Animal Crossing or meander through Hyrule when on a long subway ride. More often than not, though, I would dip into Pocket Card Jockey to knock out a race or two when given the opportunity.

Having the stickiest and most bizarre game of the Nintendo 3DS' library available on my phone means one less device in my pockets, and that's a plus in my book.

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Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On! is now available for iPhone, iPad, and Mac via an Apple Arcade subscription.

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