Joker Poker Texas Frenzy

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Description of App

This is a card game that combines Texas Hold'em poker with Roguelike elements. Increase your damage by continuously enhancing chips and multipliers to complete 8 major RPG game levels (and even more!)

In this fast-paced card game, you can build unique builds by drawing cards, opening card packs, upgrading card types, and collecting joker cards in various ways, forming powerful combinations to defeat the final boss!

Here, you can not only experience all the original content for free, but also discover more new joker cards and challenges.

Version

1.8.2

Free or Paid

Free With In-App Purchase

Apple Watch Support

No

Device(s) App Was Tested On

iPhone

iOS Version

18

Accessibility Comments

Tutorial to get started on Joker Poker:
This is a huge project, especially being able to play this game on mobile is a dream come true, so I'd like to show appreciation to the developer ShaoCheng Tang, for reading and implementing my suggestions. The developer learned how to use Voiceover and did a fantastic job on this feature, I'll be forever grateful for it!
The game is currently fully playable, but this is still a work in progress, my suggestions are still being implemented, so let's go.
If you have played Balatro with the use of the Black Hole mod, this is your opportunity to enjoy a game that uses the same concept, but has more content and best of all, the support from the developer, which is the most important.
What extra content is there?
A multiplayer ranked game, allowing you to fight against players all over the world.
extra decks, challenges, jokers, Cthulhu cards, and the list goes on and on. so much content for you to unlock. and the game is free! you can buy the vip version which isn't needed but I strongly recommend, because it lets you refresh the shop once per round for free, which helps you to find the wanted cards faster, as well as getting one free revive per game.

VoiceOver Performance

VoiceOver reads all page elements.

Button Labeling

All buttons are clearly labeled.

Usability

The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.

Other Comments

when opening the game for the first time, I suggest going to options and decreasing the music volume, it starts at 50 percent. I would also recommend disabling character animations to save battery and setting the score animation speed to 4 x for faster gameplay.
Starting a new game:
Since all of the decks, difficulty levels and challenges are locked for now, we will either start at base difficulty level and the first deck, or start a ranked game.
Standard game:
In the level select screen your screen reader will announce the needed score for your current level. you can either fight or use the detour to skip the fight and activate its effect. You must always consider what's better for your current situation, number of jokers and consumables, score needed to advance, etc.
When you choose a fight and the round starts, I strongly recommend using the explore by touch to find what you want instead of flicking left and right with one finger. I'm saying that because if you prefer to flick left and right to move, the cards aren't going to be sorted in order, no matter if you sort them by suit or rank. if you explore the screen dragging the finger and learning where everything is located you will be able to sort the cards properly.
at the middle of the screen, it will announce how many hands you have left for the current round. at the bottom left is the discard button and at the bottom right i's the play button.
Once you have selected a card, the screen reader will announce if the card is selected. touching the play button before playing the hand will announce the hand type, and touching the middle of the screen will also tell you the score calculation based on your planet level.
When you play a hand, The screen reader will announce exactly the number of scored chips.
you will also find the deck and planet buttons, which display information about your most played hands, values of each hand, current deck, etc.
when you beat the level, you will be taken to the shop. you can buy jokers and other card packs as well as vouchers.
I'll explain about how to rearrange the jokers, this is really important and you will need learn how to do it to be successful in the game.
Let's say that you have two jokers: convenient and arrogant.
the arrogant one gives plus 3 mult if you play club cards, while the convenient joker increases the X mult if all played cards are scored.
so we will move the arrogant one to the left, by exploring the top of the screen and finding it, double tap the joker, then find the joker card sorting button. double tap it. in the next screen you will be able to explore to find your jokers, double tap and hold the joker you want to move, then drag the joker where you want and after releasing the finger, you can either explore by touch to see if the move was successful, or use the one finger flick left and right to see if they are in the right order. if they aren't, just try again. once everything is in the right place, just press return.
Please not: you won't get speech feedback while moving the jokers, but It's definitely doable.
When opening a card pack, such as a tarot pack for example, you will get a number of special cards to use, as well as a hand of cards. this time, your hand is located upper than the usual place, and the screen reader won't tell you when you select a card, but it will still be selected and you will still be able to use the tarot, spectral cards properly, it just won't say selected. this is still being worked on and should be improved for the next update.
sorting the cards:
Let's say that you found the death tarot card in the shop and want to use it, but you need to move a card to the left in order for it to be useful.
use the same explore by touch method to find the two cards that you want to replace the positions, double tap them, and you will find an unlabeled button that the screen reader might identify it as a back button. this button is located above your first card, at the top left. if the move was successful, you will hear a sound effect, and will be able to select the cards again to use with the death tarot.
Ranked game:
In this mode, you will start in the shop with 12 coins. you will have 5 hp available, and if you score less than your opponent you lose one life. lose all of them and it's over. this mode is really fun and addicting! you can even check the opponent's inventory before starting a round, so you can have an idea if you will be able to beat it. I suggest playing the standard mode first to play the tutorial and get a feel for the game. I sincerely hope you enjoy it as much as I'm enjoying and play it for hundreds of hours, and the most important thing: have fun!
Matheus Rheine

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Most recently recommended by matheus rheine 17 hours 49 minutes ago

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Comments

By Brad on Monday, June 23, 2025 - 20:09

It's fun! I've even paid for the ads to be removed, honestly I'd like to pay more if I can.

I still have issues moving the jokers around, could you perhaps get in touch with the author and ask if he could use the drag and drop thing on IOS, you know, flick down to drag a joker, double tap and then drop it where you want? That would be so much easier.

At the moment i've not been able to move the jokers but i'm having fun.

I've got to the boss I think, where a lot of the cards are face down, that's fun, not.

Also, what's the letter cards? like j spades, or k hearts?

By matheus rheine on Monday, June 23, 2025 - 21:06

Hey Brad! thank you so much for the support and for purchasing the ads removal, I agree with you that it's so much useful and cheap, so definitely worth it.
regarding your issue with the joker movement being hard, i understand that it's kinda hard at first, because you need to get a feel of where you need to move. honestly I don't have a problem with it, even having 5 jokers, but the developer is playing the game with Voiceover and is aware of the challenge. however it isn't an easy task to implement the voiceover action to move the jokers, plus he's also working on a new game and other projects at the same time. but there may be a solution for the future.
as for the cards, j is jack, q is queen, k is king.

By Brad on Monday, June 23, 2025 - 21:51

SO far, I'm good at making pares, but apart from that, that's it. there's these others, 9 and maybe a 10 just floating around, and there's got to be more I can do than make pares.

Honestly it would be nice if I could get to the tutorial again.

And oo, another game, if it's accessible I might think about picking it up.

By matheus rheine on Monday, June 23, 2025 - 22:23

If you click the planet level button when you start a game, it will tell all your hands from the worst which is a high card to the best which is a flush five of a kind. usually at the start of a game I recommend either straights which can be made by playing 5 cards in order of any suit. examples: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. or 10, j, q, k, a.
the flush is also a very good hand type to start. you can play 5 cards of the same suit. example: 2 of spades, 6 of spades, 9 of spades, jack of spades, king of spades.
later on when you have all the joker slots filled, even the worst high card hand with a single card can generate hundreds of thousand points due to the synergies between the jokers and enhancements.
the order of the jokers should be: the ones that generate chips at the far left, then others that give you mult in the middle and x mult that multiply everything at the right.
to learn more about all the different hand combinations just search google for poker hands.
hope it helps.

By Brad on Monday, June 23, 2025 - 22:44

I don't think poker is for me, to much big brain thinking. Nah, I'm smart, just not when it comes to this.

I'm glad I supported the dev though, I really am. I'm not usually a fan of mobile games but it was fun playing the game for a couple hours.