Personal Vendetta (2024)

Exact revenge against your clones in a biopunk, body horror setting. In Personal Vendetta, each player is a clone fighting for revenge against their duplicates. Cards and game actions reflect the physical and psychological toll of confronting your own worst enemy: yourself. Attack your foes to inflict damage, react to their schemes to turn the tides of battle, and modify your state to improve your position over time. The game takes place in a world where biology and technology entwine: machines are organisms, and organisms are machines. At the center of all innovation lies cerebrium, the fundamental cells that compose all brains and computational devices alike. In a culture of quick fixes through elective brain surgery, will you improve yourself by sculpting your mind into a new, better form? Or will you carve away the cerebrium that holds you back? Personal Vendetta is a competitive, high-conflict, drafting and hand management card game for TCG admirers, comic book fans, and junkies for painful decisions. With too many options and too little time, you must strategically alternate between drafting, playing, and activating cards on your turns. Most tabletop games idealize a journey of increasing numbers, options, and power through a gradual drip-feed of increasing resources, but here the majority of your resources are present at the start of each game, making more options available from the outset, while forcing you to weigh each cost heavily. The result is a frenetic race to the bottom, where the goal is not so much about winning or even surviving, but about being the last to die.