Planned Release Date: September 2026

About This Game

The House always collects

Blackjack with a knife in it

• Hit and stand toward a target of 21 — but the right card can move the target itself.
  
• Everyone keeps a hole card. You can read their total, or you can read their hands. Only one of those is honest.
  
• Going bust is not the end of it. Burn a trump to claw back under, or stand and take the bite.

Seven cards you choose to carry

• Playing a trump does not end your turn. It buys you the next one.
  
• Trumps run on charges, and charges come from winning rounds. Spend early and you’ll be empty when it matters.
  
• Open packs, strip the fallen for parts, and cut the deck down to the seven you’d actually stake your hand on.

Your body is the wager

• Every round you lose winds your device on one stage.
  
• Four rounds and it finishes its work. So does the match.
  
• Break theirs first and their seat at the House falls open to you.

The Kept

• The Gilded Smile — brass, fixed in a courtesy it cannot drop
  
• The Porcelain Saint — white, mended along one seam, and no mouth at all
  
• The Cinder Crown — riveted iron, a furnace grille still glowing
  
• The Sheaf — blackened wheat bound with bone wire
  
• The Ninth Hour — a bronze bell cast as a clock with no hands
  
• The Green Lamp — signal glass, one lens green, one red

Ways to lose

• Campaign — take all six tables and earn your seat opposite the Fate Dealer.
  
• The Gauntlet — one run, rising rivals, and damage that carries between them. It ends when you do.
  
• Versus — pass the machine across the table. Only the player sitting sees their own hole card.
  
• Blood Stakes — the winner takes two cards out of the loser’s collection and keeps them.
  
• Online — find a rival through Steam, or invite a friend straight to the table. Optional coin purses, escrowed by the House. In-game coins only, no cash-out.
  
• The Gathering — Beta — up to sixteen players share one courtyard, talk over voice and text, and call each other out. Lose and you leave; the last one standing takes the crown. New, and still being tested.

Between hands

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

All voices are Ai generated along with the soundtracks. They are however created under strict instructions and hours of testing to get them right. Ai assisted in creating models/props.