Ten hours vanished into a very suspicious card game.

Why it caught our eye

Joe put more than ten hours into the demo without noticing. That’s a stronger recommendation than we can fit into a tidy genre label. Blackout Jack has the intrigue, the strategy and the numbers-going-up temptation already working together.

Blargis, the developer behind BloodThief, puts you in the underbelly of a medieval city. Build combinations, clone or destroy cards and gamble your life between hands. Finding out what’s happening matters just as much as winning the next round.