Open now · By request
Hack'n'Bluff playtest
by Rabbit's Lapka
A poker-inspired card duel against an adaptive AI in a cyberpunk setting. Place bets, choose attack programs, manage tension levels, and activate special cards through retro mini-games to rewrite the rules of each round and outplay the algorithm.
It's free to ask. The developer chooses who gets in.
- Access
- By request
- Planned release
- To be announced
- Developer
- Rabbit's Lapka
- Platforms
- Windows
- Players
- Single-player
- Languages
- English, Russian
How to join the Hack'n'Bluff playtest
- Open the game's Steam page with the Request access button. Sign in to Steam if it asks.
- Request access to the Hack'n'Bluff playtest there. It's free and doesn't commit you to anything.
- The developer lets players in, often in batches, so it can take a while. Steam emails you when you're in, and the playtest appears in your library.
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How AI is used
Generative AI was used to create temporary placeholder visuals during development. All such content is reviewed, edited, and progressively replaced with human-created artwork.
The developer's own words, from Steam.
About Hack'n'Bluff
VEIL_9 was built to teach strategy. It optimised for something else: predicting the person on the other side of the table.
Hack'n'Bluff is a card duel where the cards are the smallest part. You each hold three. You each bet. The bet is the only thing you can say to her — and she is listening to how you say it.
THE DECK
Cards run 2 to 10, higher wins, with one exception: the two beats the ten. The deck changes every round — your own 2–10, a shared deck with duplicates, or a scarce one with a card pulled out of play for good and nobody told which. Played cards stay face up. Count them.
THE TURN
Play a hack card, pick your card in secret, watch VEIL_9 arm a module, then bet: raise, check or fold. Reveal. The pot goes to the winner and the right to bet first passes across the table. Once per round you may swap a card in hand. So may she, and you will see that it happened, never what changed.
WHAT SHE DOES WITH IT
VEIL_9 tracks your raise rate, your fold rate, how often you push a weak card, how often you reach for a hack. She opens as an observer. She ends as something that bets against your habits instead of your hand. Purge her modules before she spends them — she will read that too.
THE RUN
Six rounds without running your score to zero opens endless mode. Between rounds a cartridge drops into the console: solve the signal on the CRT and leave with a hack card, or skip it for tokens.
From the game's Steam page.
