Pocore — A Critical Assembly
Build poker hands on a 5x5 reactor grid where all ten rows and columns score at once. Radioactive cards are the path to big scores — but every move you make feeds the meltdown meter. Twelve rounds. Eight bosses. One life.
Most Card Games Are Just Luck
Pocore is about decisions, not shuffles. The tension comes from knowing the right move — and what it will cost you.
Random shuffles get boring
Most card games hand you a board and hope for the best. Pocore hands you a solvable puzzle and dares you to find the line.
No stakes, no tension
When moves are free, nothing matters. In Pocore every rearrangement of a radioactive card feeds the reactor — so each swap is a real decision.
Runs feel the same
Pocore randomizes its eight hazard bosses into every run and offers 13 build mods, so no two reactors play alike.
One Board. Ten Hands. Endless Tension.
A puzzle roguelite that rewards informed risk over lucky draws.
Ten Poker Hands at Once
Every 5x5 grid scores all five rows and all five columns as poker hands simultaneously. A single swap can rewrite half your board — finding the move that lifts the most lines is the whole game.
Radiation Is the Cost of Every Move
Isotope cards multiply your hands and cluster for escalating bonuses — but moving them feeds the meltdown meter. Drag-time previews show the exact score and radiation cost before you commit. Push too far and the core melts down.
Eight Bosses, Randomized Every Run
Pinned cards, hidden cards, quarantine zones, drifting isotopes, board scrambles, mirror constraints and more. Bosses are drawn from difficulty tiers and shuffled into every run, so the campaign never plays the same way twice.
A Workshop That Builds Your Run
Spend earnings to enrich, irradiate or burn specific cards, and pick from 13 mods across poker, radiation, economy and survival archetypes. Stack the right combo and a quiet board turns into a chain reaction.
Why Players Love Pocore
A pocket-sized roguelite with real depth.
Skill, Not Luck
The board is always solvable. Mastery is finding the cheapest path to the target — not praying for a good shuffle.
One Hand, High Stakes
Single-life runs mean every round matters. One missed quota or one meltdown ends it.
Built to Replay
Randomized bosses and 13 build mods make every run a different puzzle. Chase your best-run record.
Fair & Premium
Free to try, one small unlock for the full game. No ads, no subscriptions, no data collection.
How a Run Works
Read the Board
Study the 5x5 grid. Ten poker hands score at once — spot which swaps lift the most lines toward the target.
Weigh the Radiation
Move isotopes to chain bonuses, but watch the meter. The preview shows score and radiation cost before you release.
Bank, Build, Survive
Press SCORE to clear the round, spend in the Workshop, and push deeper against twelve rounds of escalating bosses.
Ready to Run the Reactor?
Download Pocore free and play the opening rounds. Unlock the full twelve-round campaign with a single one-time purchase.
Get Pocore on the App Store(Compatible with iPhone on iOS 18.1 and later)