Awesome idea for the jam theme! this was very satisfying to play and very intuitive right off the bat.
My only issue beyond minor polish details is that it felt like it was too low stakes. There wasn’t a goal or anything that I had to meet which made it feel kind of pointless after a while. Like imagine if in balatro you didn’t have to reach a score threshold to win. Just play the hand until you run out of cards and use the cash to buy upgrades.
Very early on I felt like skipping uprades after each round to just keep hoarding cash for the more expensive ones since I didn’t have any incentive to improve my score between rounds