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.