This is a single-player game. You select you character who is getting into a prison and you chose a crime as a reason why you ended up in a prison. Your goal is to escape the prison by beating the prison guard boss. However to beat the boss you probably should upgrade our starter card deck. You can do it by fighting other inmates. It is an open world game (the world is just a prison tho) and there are many of ways to beat it.
The board is a town simulation of 17 characters. 4 Office workers, 1 Office Boss, 1 Journalist, 1 News Presenter, 1 Social media content creator, 1 Chef who is also a restaurant owner, 2 Waiters, 1 Bus driver, 1 Petrol Station Owner, 1 Unemployed person, 1 hairdresser, 1 priest, 1 homeless. Each person has their own routines based on the day of the week (On the second week players will know the exact routines of each charater). You and your opponent want to become mayors and the vote is in 14 days. Your goal is to gain a vote from each person. Your goal is to play cards to convince people to vote for you. Or chose to go to sleep. You can not choose to wake up, instead each day you wake up at 8am. For every 2 hours of sleep you draw a card and you start with 6 cards. Instead of the game being turn based, it is simulatanious, you can play the cards whenever you want. The diffrence between the votes equals to the cards you can take from your opponent. All of the citizens start neutral and may not vote, if the vote is even nobody takes cards. If player lost with larger point differece than cards played, the winner takes all the cards played and can choose the rest of the cards from the whole opponent's deck. Needless to say, through the simulation the characters interact may convince each other to take sides without you playing cards.
Hacker: Once per fight you can see the the opponents hand.
Pick Pocket: Once per fight you can permamnently steal the oponents card, if you get caught the opponent will never play against you.
Spy: You know where someone hid a card.
The world consists of cells room, caffeteria, yard, storage room, kitchen, guards room and 3 hallways. Guards will organise 'official' tournaments in cafeteria, illeagal cards are off-limits. You can only access storage and kitchen when on duty.
If you are fighting in a cafeteria, guards patrol the area and if you are using illeagal cards and they see it, the cards get confiscated. If you fight in a yard, some inmates may watch the fight and snitch to you or inmate what cards are in your hand.
If you want illeagal cards smuggled for you you have to beat the yard boss. The boss abuses illeagal cards and her side-kicks (Buff guys) constantly stare at you cards, so the A.I. knows what cards you have. If you win you get access to the smuggler, who can smuggle cards and leave them in caffeteria or storage room for a fee.
Wise old man who looks homelessi in cell rooms. He has all the info, guards and where they patrol, if card will be smuggled. To unlock his advice you have to beat him. He uses heavy combo cards.
Janitor giveis a key to a storage room / caffeteria. Uses a suspicious amount of illeagal cards and looks oddly familliar to a smuggler (except the janitor is black). Plays after bed hour in the hallways.
Boss Guard, the final boss. You can not play illeagal cards against the boss. He does not use them either. Starts the game where all card game citizens want to vote for him.
Cell mate, not a boss but you can trade cards with you cell mate.
Other prisoners are simple ais that aree designed for card farming. However if they stack up strong cards, they will become hard to beat too.
Gang leaders, are between bosses and prisoners. Prisoner is mostly for getting the hand of the game while gaining few stronger cards. Gang leaders will cause troubles because of their strong cards.
Normal
Illeagal, if seen by the guard they get confiscated.
Limited cards, illeagal cards that can not be confiscated. Can be gained by bribing a guard or winning caffeteria tournament.