Five Card Charlie

The blackjack roguelike deckbuilder

Pick a Table, rack scoring Chips, treat the cards in your own Shoe, and beat the house one Dealer at a time. It is still blackjack. A good build is how you ride the swings.

Play the demo

Early build · coming to Steam

Dealer stands on soft 17

Hand score 0×0=0

Every Table plays its own game

Shallow Shoes count easily and pay worse. Deep ones hide the count and pay properly. Win a Night to open the next Table.

Points times mult

Every Hand that wins starts from its outcome, adds its own total in points, then runs through your treated Cards and your Chips, left to right.

    Rack your Chips

    Chips are the build. Each one fires at its moment, in rack order. Color one up and the same idea gets bigger.

    Doctor the Shoe

    The Shoe is physical. Buy treated Cards and they go into it, to be dealt to you, or to the Dealer, like any other card.

    Read the Dealer

    Each Dealer of the Night brings a Trait, and they get meaner as the Night goes on. Here is the house's whole book.

    Wear a Plaque

    One Plaque per Night is your starting identity. Plaques level up across runs as you play into them.

    Seen enough?

    Play the demo Back to the table