Reviews for Pokémon TCG Pocket – Card Game

It was good at the beginning but now a year in we all thought it would eventually be so much more. I understand its gacha and designed to extract money, but it's so low effort of an app and game. Basic features or comfort aren't there, everything is slow, no dark mode, repetitive missions, repetitive content, pack points should be combined into one pool. I've spent probably $100 on PTCGP and if I bought a different game for $100 and got this, I'd be furious.

This app falls short of what it should be and is carried hard by the Pokemon name and creatures. The user experience is years behind other games, battles are stale and boring, social features are bare bones, and the latest "celebration" expansion is terrible for long time players. The list goes on, but the one positive thing is the art work for many of the cards are quite nice. If you want to have fun with an app that is well designed, look elsewhere or buy some physical Pokemon cards.

The game lacks a real purpose once you get going. Between the inability to trade for the rarest cards and the frequency of pack release, there's no hope that you're going to collect everything. And with all the battle emblems given out for pvp being identical and boring, there's no good incentive to lock into a 20 minute battle with other players. So at the end of the day, it's just a pack ripping sim with some fun AI battles that you will quickly clear out.

While the game is fun. It gets 2 stars just because of the annoying amount of menu clicks. I don't need a separate screen that I have to press okay on a wonder pick or a promo. It's a single card. I shouldn't have to be told that I got 4 booster stamina on a daily login quest. I know after the 3 time. Why do I have to go through 5 screens after every battle. It takes 10 seconds for menus to load on missions or decks (because it's not stored locally). Condense everything to 1 screen or scrollable

Introduced new TRADING mechanic into the TRADING CARD GAME and it's immediately the worst feature. It's so insanely expensive to trade that it's not only cost prohibitive to new players, but unless you're a whale it's outright nutty. I haven't missed a pack since release including the pass packs, I've spent a few bucks, and they will not get a penny more of my money until they fix trading. IT'S A TRADING CARD GAME JUST LET US TRADE. Cool down on trading? Fine. But it cost 4 cards to trade 1

I really love the changes that were made to the card game. I really like the wonder picks and the NPC battles. There is just something about collecting pokemon cards and not being able to trade them or share them with friends. For me, it just kills it for me. I have collected almost every card available with tons of duplicates. My friends are struggling to build decks, and I can't even help them. WE NEEDS TRADING THERE IS NOTHING TO DO WITH DUPES BESIDES MAKE SPARKLES.

It's pretty fun, though I do think it takes way to long for the pack stamina to reload, having to wait 12 hours just to open ONE, but other then that, I have experienced no bugs, OR crashes, and I have a pretty trashy phone, and other people are saying it crashes a lot, so maybe it's just them, or my phone is too trashy to crash. The game has good art, good graphics, good battling system, overall, it's just really good. Good job Pokémon.

Dull. I used to love the original computer version, but this is just a cash grab. You start out with no cards and have to wait 12 hours to get 5 new cards. Duplicates over 2 are pretty much useless. You can not trade. You can speed up the new card pull, but it requires a hard to get item or real money. The game is pretty much unplayable until you have several days' worth of cards. I'm on day two, and the tutorial was the only fun part. Another bad game that only sells because of the Pokemon logo

I love this game, I really do, but some of the features are really frustring. Finally trading is introduced and it is a mess. You cannot trade for high rarity cards which defeats the purpose of trading. You can also not request certain cards, just make an offer to a friend and hope they know what you want in return. On top of that you need to spend cards to earn "trade points" to trade certain cards, which just creates an unnecessarily confusing process. And don't get me started on flair.

Dropping my review from 2* to 1*. The new trading feature is abhorrent. You need to trade in your rare cards to be able to get points to trade and the exchange rate is predatory. In order to be able to trade for 1 card that I need, I would have to cash in most of my collection. I know they set it this way so that people will buy trade tokens, but shame on the developers for this. Shame. I have cancelled my premium subscription and I will no longer be spending a cent on this app.