Hover Poker is a multi-player poker game developed by Jormy Games and published by Clickgamer.

The Game

You’re sitting at the poker table, you take a look at your cards and decide that you could definitely take the hand. You raise $100, take a breath, and look around. Your opponents are analyzing your every facial expression and your every gesture for any sign that you are bluffing. You pretend to nervously look away and your opponent immediately jumps on the chance to call your raise. Perfect, you’ve got them right where you want them, so you decide to take a sip of your soda and check the time. You’ve been playing Hover Poker this entire time! Your opponent? Your buddy, sitting right next to you.

You really are surrounded by your opponents, but they are more than likely your friends, as Hover Poker lets you essentially play multi-player poker with the same device, passing it around for different turns. All cards are hidden, and when it is your turn you simply touch and hold on the two peek buttons to take a look at your hand. There is a peek counter, which is a great touch, so should the counter not be zero when it is your turn and the device is passed to you, go ahead and punch whomever just passed it to you in the arm – they looked at your cards! All the usual rules of poker apply, small and big blinds pay their antes automatically, best hand wins, and you can fold, call, or raise.

The user interface could definitely use some improvement. When you wish to check, you are forced to hit the “Call” button, which logically makes sense but should definitely change to a “Check” button as to not confuse others. In addition, when raising your bet, you are given the choice between the more and less button which works in increments of $10, or the slider which lets you increase your bet much quicker but inaccurately. Lastly, going all-in is quite annoying when you have a larger amount of chips on hand, would suggest an “All-In” button that would make it much easier!

Graphics

The graphics behind Hover Poker are nothing special, they are clear and they work, cannot really complain about it because I wouldn’t expect poker to have extraordinary graphics.

Sound

The verbal cues that the in-game announcer gives you are very helpful in letting you know what the actions of the previous players have been and whose turn it is. There is no other music present in Hover Poker, but that is to be expected.

Conclusion

Hover Poker delivers everything that a multiplayer, one device, portable poker game advertises: quick and simple games of poker that can be played up to six people. There really isn’t much more to it other than that, and a single player mode or an online multiplayer mode would be great additions.

Score

MustTap Score: Iron Tap

It's technically solid, but what comes out is pretty plain.

Bottom Line
Hover Poker delivers exactly as advertised: a quick and portable way to play poker with your friends, but not much more. The user interface could use some improvements and a single player and online mode would be great additions. Worth taking a look at for poker fans.

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