Dealer's Tell: All Bets Are Final

Every cheat has a tell. This one has a rule. A roguelite deduction game at a blackjack table. The devil deals - and cheats by a secret rule. Beating him isn't The felt says the dealer stands on 17. He doesn't. Every floor, he follows one secret scheme : he stops on exactly 18, turns up the card you were dealt first, deals you exactly twelve. 16 schemes - and the cards give every one away. Every hand lands on your tablet . Cross out the suspects the cards don't back up. It won't do the counting for you. Want the numbers? Pay - every check on a floor costs more than the last. One left? A screen drops from the ceiling. Write down what he does and when . Right - he slides you the key himself. Wrong - the marks pile up. Every hand you win is a mark . At the sixth, the dealing stops: name the scheme now. Miss, and the floor beneath your chair gives way. Fifteen floors - one room , and every descent makes it worse. A working club. A hall being packed away. Walls that bend. Columns turned to ribs - breathing. At the end, a throat, and heat beyond it. He changes too. On the first floor: Welcome. Do sit — the previous guest has only just vacated the seat. On the fourteenth: CLOSER. more. more. i've waited so long so long so lo- Every floor has its own house rules : blackjack pays six to five, the readouts go dark, his hole card lies face up. Every run is a different table. Between floors waits the Changer . She came down like you - and stayed. She sells the things of those who didn't make it: over forty, from a marked deck to an IOU. Between runs, the Black Market trades in what outlives your death. Six deals - and each one you sign raises the price of the rest. The stairwell walls carry writing from someone who came down before you. One new line per run; the last ones only for those who reach the bottom. Whose hand it is, you won't see at once. 16 cheating schemes - every one readable from the cards 15 floors down and three endings 14 house rules - every run the table plays differently 16 stairwell inscriptions - a story that unfolds run by run Pressure, not a timer : light and sound answer your marks 40+ items and 6 deals that stay with you between runs A dealer who changes floor by floor - from a courteous croupier to something that no longer pretends to be human PS1 look : vertex jitter, warping textures, banded light 25 achievements and controller support Every chip is fake: no real-money gambling, no microtransactions . The only real stake is your soul. Take a seat. He's already shuffling.