Drawing Dead

🎯 The Goal

After meeting an untimely end in a gritty saloon poker game turned deadly, you awake to find yourself stranded in Purgatory. Imbued with supernatural abilities, your goal is to utilize a mystical deck of poker cards forged from your very soul to gamble, fight, and maneuver your way through the three heavily guarded gates of Purgatory to secure entry into the afterlife.

⚙️ Core Actions

The game delivers a slick, highly tactical solo hand-management and card-combining puzzle styled after classic Wild West poker dynamics:

• Adopt a Haunted Western Persona: Choose an asymmetric character—such as the Sheriff, the Outlaw, or the Barkeep—each featuring distinct narrative backstories and custom passive rules that manipulate the core card economy.
• Build Poker Sets for Action: Draft, manage, and discard cards from your hand to build traditional poker configurations. You must assemble matching card groups (pairs, three-of-a-kind, or four-of-a-kind) to unlock your hero’s offensive strikes and defensive manuevers.
• Manipulate the Soul Deck: Spend your character’s mystical soul-powers to alter values, sneak cards from the discard pile, or peek at incoming threats, granting you high-agency ways to recover from a bad deal.
• Breach the Gates of Purgatory: Advance across a linear timeline representing three distinct, escalating spatial gates. Each gate introduces harsher rules modifiers and unleashes waves of spectral underlings you must dispatch.
• Execute the Final Overlord: Survive the creeping operational countdown to trigger the ultimate boss showdown. You must carefully husband your highest-value sets to strip away the boss’s extensive health pool before your character’s last point of health or card deck is fully depleted.

🧠 Why you’ll like it

It is a brilliantly thematic twist on traditional card games that effortlessly merges the high-stakes tension of a poker table with a supernatural Wild West dungeon crawl. The core mechanical magic lies in the puzzle of hand optimization—forcing you to constantly weigh whether to burn low cards early to defend yourself or hold out for a massive, high-damage four-of-a-kind combo to obliterate an elite threat. Delivering short setup times, a smooth mechanical flow, and incredible, grit-soaked dark fantasy art, it is an exceptionally clever and rewarding solo challenge.