Hit Me: Roguelike Blackjack

Hit Me is a blackjack roguelike: a deckbuilder built on the real game of 21. Beat the Dealer, then stack Jokers that multiply your points until your wins blow past the table's target. The house cheats. So do you. HOW IT PLAYS Each table sets a score target and gives you a limited number of Deals to reach it. Every hand you win scores points times your flame, a multiplier that grows with every card you draw and stays lit for the rest of the table after a win. So every Hit is a real decision: one more card for a bigger score, or one too many and you bust. Miss the target and the run is over. Clear it and spend what you earned on new Jokers and Cheats. The shop is where the deckbuilding happens. Jokers, the cards you carry through the run, multiply the points: a 21 counts twice, a hand you win without drawing a card scores ×3, and every J, Q and K in a winning hand doubles its points. When the cards turn on you, play a Cheat in the middle of a hand: chalk a 20 into a 21, stick an Ace on a card, or call a UFO to abduct the Dealer. Basic blackjack strategy is only the start: your choices between hands make this a strategy card game, not a coin flip. REAL BLACKJACK RULES This is the classic game of twenty one: hit, stand, double and split against the Dealer. The Standard deck is a regular 52-card deck, reshuffled at the start of every table. The Dealer draws to 17 and stands on soft 17, unless a Boss or one of the Night's events changes it. A natural blackjack wins unless the Dealer has one too, and a five-card Charlie (five cards without a bust) wins on its own. If you know hit and stand, you can play. The depth comes from what you build. ELEVEN NIGHTS IN THE BACK ROOM A run is 11 Nights and 33 tables in an illegal back room. Every Night ends at a Boss Table where the Dealer plays by a rule of their own, and the last three Dealers wait in the Showdowns on Nights 9, 10 and 11. Beat them and walk out on top. Every Night also throws something at you: rain through a leaky roof, a brawl, a power cut, a loan shark or a police sweep at the shop door. As in any roguelite deckbuilder, the shops, the order of the Boss Dealers and each Night's trouble change from run to run. PLENTY TO BUILD AND UNLOCK • 21 Jokers in three rarities, 21 Cheats and card upgrades for your deck. • 10 Vouchers that change the rules of a run, and 9 Tags you earn by skipping a table. • 11 Dealers, each with a face and a grudge. • 4 starting decks and 4 Stakes of rising difficulty: you start with one of each and unlock the rest as you play. • Endless mode after your first win: how many Nights can you last? • A new Daily Run every day: one attempt, with the same deck, shops and Dealers for everyone. • 30 achievements and a Collection of everything you have found. SHORT SESSIONS, SAVED EVERY MOVE A table takes a minute or two and a full run 35 to 55 minutes, so there is always time for one more table. The game saves after every action: close it mid-hand and pick up where you left off. MADE FOR YOUR PHONE Portrait, one-handed play with every button within thumb reach. Chunky pixel art, an animated felt table, an optional CRT filter and a soundtrack that follows the Night. Optional four-color suits, a left-handed layout, and adjustable sound, music and haptics. In English, Turkish, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. OFFLINE BLACKJACK, NOTHING TO BUY Stuck on a long flight with no signal? This roguelike card game plays fully offline: no WiFi needed, no account, no sign-in. It is a premium indie game for one player: pay once and everything in it is yours, with no ads. WHO IT IS FOR Fans of roguelike card games get a deck builder with real blackjack rules; fans of blackjack games get the same table with runs, unlocks, Bosses and an engine to grow. A roguelike card game. No real-money gambling, no in-app purchases, no ads. Hit Me is a single-player game of skill and luck. There is no real money in it: the dollars are play money with no cash value.

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