Pokémon TCG Pocket

Money Grab and Weighted Battles 90% of these reviews HAVE to be fake because no way in hell anybody is enjoying this game

Prison Although I play this game frequently, I’m really just stuck in a prison. I love collecting the cards, but I hate virtually every other aspect of this game, and I’m mostly just playing it because my fam is. The battling system sucks, and there is a power creep. Because the battling system sucks. And in order to get rewards and more hourglasses to open more cards, you’re forced to keep battling 🫩. It’s a lot of battling, it’s boring, and you have to get the right cards—consistently, because each month, stronger cards come out and then you have to get those before you can battle. I just want to collect cards. But it’s hard without the rewards from battling. I’m also mad, because they had some kind of currency they discontinued, and they opened a temporary shop with that currency to buy other points and hourglasses. I missed the hourglasses and spent all the currency on the points. This was non-refundable, and since the currency is discontinued, I can’t get more to buy the hourglasses. I messaged about it, and they refused to do anything about it. So, yeah my bad for missing it, but also, there should be some way to have undone that, or at least have helped me. I wasn’t asking for new currency, just to replace what I traded, enough to buy the hourglasses, and they couldn’t/wouldn’t do that. And when hourglasses are something I care about, it really sucked. They’re just sitting in the shop, taunting me.

Absolute garbage The single player AI blatantly cheats to always draw exactly what it needs to beat you. Chances of getting good cards out of packs and wonder picks you get for free are abysmally low. Pack points you earn can’t be carried over to the new packs released each month, which is a problem because all the old cards become obsolete within 4 sets. The only online players left are people who pay the big bucks to get all the best cards. Please just save your money and don’t feed into infuriating pay to win models.

Devs ruined it for money Pull rates nerfed into the ground, not fun to pull packs anymore. Comp is full of pay to win pack spammers that have the most meta build, which changes every month. so if you don’t have the money to drop on 400+ packs a month for 2 ace pokemon in a comp deck you just won’t have fun. Have to rate 1/5 cause I can’t rate 0/5 greed ruins games and ruins nostalgia.

Predetermined Odds Using AI to evaluate the probability of outcomes regarding opening hand, coin flip outcomes, and starting Pokemon it has determined that there is an extremely low likelihood the game is actually truly randomized. There is likely code that creates checks and balances to not let you get on a longer winning streak or losing streak. Certain decks seem to get more unfavorable odds, usually the top decks in format or those relying on special conditions such as sleep or burn.

This sucks This sucks

AI in the game cheats I have played multiple battles versus AI in the game and I have seen blatant cheating from coin flip manipulation to never seeing a card to play the game out right.

This game is terrible It’s pay to win, the premade decks are terrible for when you’re trying to do the bot battles. It suggests them and then they can’t do anything against them because the developers are too stupid to know how to make a deck. And it’s all based on rng. Terrible game I hated it and I hate the devs

Helped me learn I’ve never bothered going beyond collecting cards, so being able to gain knowledge about the actual gameplay has been really fun. The prompts during battle help my adhd brain remember the order of actions - something that would hinder me from playing an in-person game. The dev team seems to really care about user satisfaction and the amount of non-paid currency and such is very reasonable. Frequent new packs. This is one of the things my partner and I enjoy together daily.

Expert battles are just so rigged If you want to lose your hair and age, play this app! There’s clear bias towards the AI opponents and the game wants you to lose. If you download it, know that it’s actively working against you. Awful yet addicting game. It’s exactly what they want.