About Card Shark

Card Shark is an adventure game built on cunning, intrigue, and delicious deception, set among the salons of eighteenth-century France. Here you must play your opponents even more skilfully than you play your cards, cheating your way up from humble local card parlors all the way to the King's own table, all while an unscrupulous crew of scoundrels watches for any slip.

Mastery comes through a growing arsenal of tricks. You learn card marking, false shuffles, deck switching, false deals, and plenty more, using your ill-gotten winnings to buy a seat at ever more exclusive high-stakes tables. The catch is simple but unforgiving: do not get caught, because your fellow gamblers take a very dim view of cheats, and each swindle you pull threads you deeper into an unfolding conspiracy.

The journey carries you across the France of the era, through small towns, remote mansions, and luxurious lounges dreamed up by the Nerial team, with creative direction from Arnaud De Bock, the ornate visual artwork of Nicolai Troshinsky, and an original orchestral score by Andrea Boccadoro. Rich in atmosphere and clever mechanics, this indie simulation-adventure gives PC players a stylish descent into gilded-age trickery.