Goal: Win a best-of-3 Tug-of-War match against your opponent. Whoever wins 2 of 3 games takes the match.

Each round: Both players get a hand of cards and race to beat a target score before running out of hands.

• Play: select up to 5 cards and play them as a poker hand — higher-ranked hands (Pairs, Flushes, Straights, etc.) score more chips × mult.
• Discard: ditch and redraw cards instead, but you only get a limited number of discards per round.
• Whoever scores higher each round shifts the Tug-of-War marker — reach the round's threshold first to win it.

Power-ups: collect Jokers (passive bonuses), Tarot cards (one-time deck-altering consumables), and Planet cards (permanently boost a specific hand type) between hands. Check the Encyclopedia for full details on each.

Players can select one power card from a pool of 6 after every 3 hands played.

Extras: chat with your opponent mid-match, or challenge them to a "Wanna Bet?" side wager.

If you choose to make it personal, GAMBLE RESPONSIBLY!

Goal: Ride solo or team up with upto 4 players and fight through a campaign map across 3 Acts, ending in a final boss.

Shared resources: the whole party shares a pool of Lives (the run ends if they hit 0) and a pooled Coin bank spent at Shops.

The map: after each fight, vote as a team on which node to travel to next — Combat, Elite, Hazard, Shop, or Boss. Ties are broken by the party Host.

• Combat nodes: play poker hands to reach the target score within your hands/discards — same core scoring as PvP.
• Elite / Hazard / Boss nodes: carry a debuff for the fight — you'll get a warning before you commit to entering.
• Shop nodes: any player can spend the pooled coins on Jokers, Tarot cards, and Artifacts individually — no vote needed to buy, but the whole party must leave the shop to continue playing. The coins are shared, so be mindful and discuss before spending it in shops.

Progression: Jokers and Artifacts are personal (capped at 4 each) and stay with you all run; Tarot and Planet picks permanently upgrade your deck and hand values. Clear an Act's boss to move on — defeat the Act 3 boss for a True Victory!

Thank you for choosing to play the game! This game is inspired by and contains elements of Balatro (Core Gameplay), Slay the Spire (Co-Op) and Stardew Valley (Art Style). Do check them out, they have more depth to them and are amazing games!

Brains & Ideas
Sasi a.k.a DrunkVigilante

Development
Gemini (PvP, Act 1, 2 & Power Cards logic)
Claude (Act 3 & Artifacts)

Quality of Life Features
Antigravity - Gemini

Music
Gemini

UI & UX
Gemini

Debugging, Testing & Support
Antigravity - Gemini

Joker

Planet

Tarot