How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Kill Line
One card per turn. Rent, debt, and no room for mistakes. Build a deck around cash flow, evidence, and mutual support to survive mounting bills. A darkly funny, story-driven roguelike deckbuilder about a 38-year-old father trying to keep his life together.

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About This Game

One card. One turn. Find a way through.

The next deduction could end your run. Do you take a side job, block a charge, or push the paperwork through before the institution acts? Preview the result, choose your card, and watch a small decision buy you another chance.

Finish an encounter early to skip the institution’s action. Bills already due still have to be paid. Keep your cash at 20 or above to stay in the run.

Three ways to build a little breathing room.

Cash flow: get money now and manage the bills that follow. Evidence: gather paperwork and use institutional rules to reduce losses and advance your case. Mutual support: sequence cards across consecutive turns to benefit from relay effects.

Choose a starting deck, take card rewards, upgrade useful cards, and remove cards that no longer fit. Specialize or mix the three approaches: the order you play matters as much as the cards you take.

The bills follow you. So do your choices.

At 38, Mark Bennett has lost his job and his family home. Between delivery shifts, medical debt, and collection calls, he is still trying to be there for his son. Accept an advance, ask a friend for help, or decide what it costs to keep a roof over your head.

Postponing a payment buys time, not forgiveness. Bills carry between encounters, and today’s relief can become tomorrow’s problem. Dry humor, difficult compromises, and small acts of kindness run through the story.

What to expect

A fixed story route across 15 chapters, three starting decks, 36 action cards with upgrades, changing card rewards and events, and two bittersweet endings tied to your housing decision. Your goal is to survive and hold on to what you can.

Failure or quitting ends the current run; settings, statistics, and ending records are saved.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

AI-assisted tools were used to assist with the creation of some in-game image assets and promotional materials. No AI-generated content is created during gameplay.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10 64-bit (version 21H1 / build 19043 or newer)
    • Processor: 2.0 GHz Dual Core Processor
    • Memory: 2 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Integrated Graphics (Intel HD Graphics 4000 or equivalent)
    • DirectX: Version 10
    • Storage: 2 GB available space
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system