Cardwheel

nitzan.games LLC

In-app purchases

About this game

Spin. Drop. Score.

Cardwheel is a fun roguelite where you drop balls into a big spin wheel. Each run begins with choosing a wheel, and each wheel changes the difficulty and how you play.

How it works:

🎡 Choose Your Wheel: Each wheel gives you a unique setup and starting resources.

🃏 Make Your Choice: Enter the next round, or skip it for powerful bonuses like cash, free card packs, or guaranteed rare jokers in the shop.

🎨 Spin for Score: Drop 6 balls into a wheel of 4 colors. Match colors to rack up chips, multiply your total, and try to clear the round’s score goal. However, be cautious, as your spins are limited.

🛒 Shop & Upgrade: Between rounds, visit the shop to buy jokers and card packs. Jokers twist the rules (e.g., more chips for red balls, multipliers for pairs), while card packs change how balls, slots, or colors behave.

👹 Boss Challenges: Every three rounds, face a unique twist. Some colors stop scoring, modifiers shut down, or jokers get disabled. Adapt fast; there are 8 bosses to beat.

Why you’ll love Cardwheel
● Endless strategic combos from jokers, packs, and spins
● Every run feels different with new wheels and modifiers
● Challenging roguelite loop: risk, reward, and adaptation
● Simple to learn, endlessly replayable

Spin the wheel. Build your deck of tricks. Outwit the bosses. Can you survive the full run and conquer all 8?

Ratings and reviews

Good game with some flaws. The most glaring flaws imo are the unlockable wheels, and the bosses. Starting with the bosses, the modifiers too frequently are just "this color(s) can't score" which isn't fun and just punishes for no reason. Having modifiers that do things like scrambling wheel/ball order more often, spin backwards, etc would be more engaging. Right now, it doesn't feel good failing because I chose the wrong two colors. The unlockable wheels aren't more interesting, just harder.

fun but very shallow gameplay. jokers are mostly just the same 5 or so archetypes repeated over and over, and offer poor synergy. Half of them are unusable together (e. g. if exactly 3 balls land on color). Same thing for upgrades, they lack depth and interesting mechanics. the game is an interesting spin (ha) on balatro minus the magical variety and chaos that makes it special. it feels like every run becomes "maybe the board your color of choice".

I'm enjoying it way more than I expected. played it constantly while I visited Las Vegas. it took all the urges from me to even spend a dime on a real roulette. thanks!! if you love balatro then you'll most likely enjoy this as well. it takes some different skills but the base concept is the same. great job !!!

What’s new

Endless mode is here!
5 new bosses.
3 new skips.
Lots of balance fixes and tweaks.