Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On! combines the classic pastimes of horse racing and solitaire into an easy to pick-up-and-play puzzle game, with humorous dialogue and hours of enjoyable content…so long as it's played in short bursts.
Pocket Card Jockey2013
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Pocket Card Jockey
2013 Nintendo81Great
Playtime
LongIt typically takes about 50 hours to finish the game.
Playable on
Game modes
Details
- Launch
- July 31, 2013
- Developer
- Game Freak
- Publisher
- Nintendo
- Themes
Overview
A hybrid horse racing/solitaire game for the 3DS. Produced by Game Freak.
Screenshots
Reception
Press82
Great- Metacritic83from 16 reviews
- OpenCritic82from 25 reviews
Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On! needed a few tweaks to make the jump from 3DS to newer platforms, but the final result is a strong thoroughbred of a game. The move to Switch gave Game Freak a chance to update some of Pocket Card Jockey's presentation, updating character models to 3D versions of their original counterparts. Outside of that and the aforementioned...
Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On! does not come to Switch with a swathe of bells and whistles or make a host of changes to Game Freak's weirdest mash-up. It's a simple port of the Apple Arcade version - which, in itself, made very few changes to the 3DS original - but with a game this great, that's no bad thing. Sure, not much has changed since 2016 (even...
The cult 3DS game has been refreshed for smartphones and the combination of card game and horse racing is as weird and addictive as ever
Pocket Card Jockey combines solitaire, turn-based tactics, and JRPG-like experience and skills into an incredibly fun, accessible diversion on the 3DS.