Pokémon TCG Pocket review: The perfect casual card game

Twitter sucks, I’ve got no Tinder matches, BlueSky is bursting with weak patter, Pokémon GO is old news, and lord knows that I want nothing less than to check in on the people I grew up with on Facebook and Instagram. I am in a digital prison of my own design, one where my overtly online sense of humor can no longer thrive. I feel alienated, isolated, and worst of all, bored. 2024 feels like the year the online persona died and left AI bots in its wake, parroting what came before but with imperialistic agendas at the fore. So it’s no wonder that I’ve been opening Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket at every opportunity. Is it too much to ask for a little bit of joy in the morning? Instead of logging onto Twitter and looking up the latest world news, I’ve been logging onto Pokémon TCG Pocket instead, and it’s massively improved my quality of life. Well, for the most part, anyway. Pokémon TCG Pocket is a simplified version of the Pokémon Trading Card Game. It has the same basic ruleset, except you’re dueling with