DarkStone, the Cardgame

Players take the role of forum users posting to a gaming messageboard and use cards as individual posts to sway the conversation and earn Victory Points. Cards enact actions such as off-topic replies, trash-talking, targeting new users, hyping a game, pinning threads, or invoking moderator interventions like deleting offensive posts or mass-deletion to quash flames. Tactics include creating flames to derail rivals, dismantling another player’s argument, naming users to draw them in, or timing server maintenance effects that spoil half-written posts. The player with the most Victory Points at the end is the most influential on the board.

Players: 3–5 best 5
Playing time: 45–60 min
Age: 16+
Complexity: 2 / 5