Planned Release Date: November 2026

About This Game

You owe ₩200,000,000 to men who don't take excuses.

It's 1999. You're at a folding table in a Busan back room, and the only thing standing between you and the collectors is a deck of 48 hwatu cards.

GO, STOP is a roguelike deckbuilder built on the card game Koreans have been playing for a hundred years — at funerals, at family gatherings, and in rooms like this one. Match the months. Steal the floor. Turn flowers into cash before sunrise.

NEVER TOUCHED A HWATU CARD? NEITHER HAD MOST OF OUR PLAYTESTERS.

There's no tutorial to sit through. Month numbers sit right on the cards, the codex is one click away, and the game explains each trick the first time it happens. By the second night you'll be reading the floor like you grew up doing it.

THE CHOICE THE GAME IS NAMED AFTER

Hit your target and the table asks you one question: take the money, or call "Go" and let it ride. Every Go doubles the multiplier. It also raises the bar and gives your rival another chance to snatch the round out from under you — and if he does, he takes the pot and your wallet with it.

Stopping is safe. Stopping is also how you end the night short of what you owe.

CHEATING IS A MECHANIC. GETTING CAUGHT IS A PROBLEM.

Slip a card off the bottom of the deck. Shake three-of-a-month to double your collection. Drop a bomb and bury the floor. Every trick works — right up until the man across the table notices, and then you're paying for it.

WHAT YOU BUILD ALONG THE WAY

Fifty charms that break the scoring rules in ways they probably shouldn't. Sixty ghost cards that don't belong in any real deck. Consumables, card editions, hands you grind sharper run after run. Eight cities, eight bosses, each one playing by house rules he made up himself.

THE DEBT DOESN'T SLEEP

Principal grows every time you move to a new city. Interest lands every third night whether you're ready or not. You can always borrow more — that's how they get you.

Three nights a city. Eight cities between Busan and Seoul. One ledger, and your name's at the top of it.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

All 2D artwork (hwatu card illustrations, character portraits, backgrounds) and music tracks were created using generative AI tools, then curated, edited, and assembled by the developer. All AI content is pre-rendered during development — nothing is generated live at runtime. Localization was machine-assisted and human-reviewed. Store page assets were produced the same way.