BURNING CARDS

Burning Cards

(A horror game where your cards are actual computer cards (sound card, graphic card, etc.) to fend off monsters)

A card game about survival… that isn’t really about cards.

You work the night shift at a remote data station, far from the safety of the residential zones.
Your job sounds simple: process work using hardware cards and keep the system running.

But every machine you power…
every signal you send…
attracts something.

They move in the dark.
They hate technology.
And they are getting closer every night.

You don’t fight them with guns.
You fight them with cards — not magical spells, not fantasy decks —
but overheating hardware modules that barely hold the system together.

Manage your cards.
Control heat.
Finish your workload before dawn.
Survive the night.

Because if the work isn’t done…
the people in the residential zone don’t make it.

And you have someone waiting for you there.

Gameplay

• Card-based system management under pressure

• Match card types to repel different entities

• Balance risk: use cards faster, they overheat

• Emergency electric shock system when things get too close

• Increasing difficulty each night

• Story told through conversations, notes, and fragments

Atmosphere

• Retro 80s-style machinery in a dying future

• Isolation, radio conversations, and unseen horrors

• Psychological tension instead of jumpscares

• A story about work, survival… and people who stay behind

Warning ^^

You are not a hero.
You are just someone trying to make it through one more shift.