Black Jacket

Good stuff. Enjoyable card play and intriguing story. Great atmosphere. Glad I bought it. Enjoyed it enough that I bought the supporter pack. I will recommend this to my friends who like to gamble for their souls.

Black Jacket is a godawful Inscryption clone based around blackjack instead of poker. It's very clearly supposed to have a focus on the writing, which is derivative - it's effectively The Sexy Brutale except without any of the impact that game had. The game itself is bad because it's entirely rigged as the plot demands. The cycle goes like this: you win a few hands and then the opponents start hitting 21 every time or using deck nuke strategies that have no counterplay. Once you've lost enough, the game throws a progression upgrade at you that finally lets you win. Because of this, the Balatro-like elements aren't good either: a few of the decks are outright counterproductive to use and may as well be a hard mode that requires having Cheat Engine open to win with even when you're in the mode where the game lets you win. Hearts in particular are really bad: the idea is that each card has a negative point value but can potentially make the opponent's hand even worse than your own, but it's the equivalent of shooting yourself in the head and hoping the bullet penetrates through your skull into your enemy's heart. Avoid.