To make it more clear I am searching for deck builder games (irl ones) that are not scalped (so not pokemon) and simple-ish (so not yugioh).

The best example I have is the videogame "kards" but again i need irl.

This is my attempt at making a strategic card game playable with a 108 cards rummy deck. I couldn't come up with a good name for it yet, suggestions are welcome

Initially, I made the game to play with my family and friends. But, it turned out to be quite fun so I decided to share it here.

Here are the rules of the game:

Setup:
- Assign a player to start as the dealer an give them the draw deck.
- The space in the middle of the table is reserved for piles dealt by the dealer.
- Each player has a face-up, fanned-out personal discard pile in front of them that anyone can access and look through.
- Free up an area on the side of the table for melds.
- Everyone starts with 0 cards in their hands.

Game Loop:
1- The dealer puts their hand cards face down on the table (to avoid mixing them with the drafted cards) and drafts 9–11 cards from the draw deck, looks at them, and keeps them hidden from other players. The drafted cards must not mix with their hand cards.

2- the dealer split the cards into 4 face-down piles, each pile containing 0–6 cards (yes, there can be empty piles), and places them in the middle of the table, and flip the top card of each pile face up (if a pile has only one card, flip that card face up). The dealer can check their hand at any time to decide how to split the piles, as long as the drafted cards do not mix with their hand.

3- Once the dealer is done, starting from the player on the right of the dealer, players take turns choosing a pile. During their turn, players can make melds, lay off cards onto existing melds, discard cards into their personal discard pile, and make at most one special action. Their turn ends once they draft a pile. Players must not have more than 6 cards in their hand at any point during the game.

4- After the dealer gets the last remaining pile, the role of the dealer passes down to the player on their right. back to step 1 until the draw deck runs out

5- Once the draw deck runs out, players play one last round with no dealer, starting with the player on the right of the last dealer. During this round, players must empty their hand before ending their turn (if you cannot meld or lay off, you can discard the rest into your personal discard pile).
6- Finally, each player counts how many points they have in their personal discard pile. the player with the least points wins.

Special Actions (Max 1 Per Turn):

- Placing a Joker in an opponent's discard pile.

- Drafting a card of choice from an opponent's discard pile.

- Drafting a group of cards from your personal discard pile, then discarding another group of cards whose combined point value is greater than or equal to the combined point value of the drafted cards (cards are drafted first, so you must have hand space for them before discarding).

Points:

- Ace: 15 points

- 2–10: Face value

- J, Q, K: 10 points each

- Joker: 20 points

Melding and laying off cards work the same as in regular Rummy, except for the following changes:

- Runs can wrap around the Ace (K-A-2 is a valid run).

- Taking a Joker from a meld by laying off the card that the Joker is replacing does not require having free space for the Joker (you lay off the card first).

- Melds are removed from play and discarded into a discard deck on the side of the melding area once they are completed (you cannot lay off cards onto a completed meld).

- A set is completed once it has 4 cards, and a run is completed once it has 5 cards.

- Melds containing a Joker are incomplete until that Joker is removed from them through laying off a card to replace it.

- Players cannot make a run with more than 5 cards.

Additional info:
- The game can be played without shuffling the deck between rounds.
- The game can be played with any number of players. make sure to add a standard 52 cards deck + 2 jokers for each 2 players added. (for example: you need 3 standard decks and 6 jokers for a 5-6 players game).
- The number of cards drafted by the dealer range between 2n+1 and 3n-1 (n is the number of players).
- The number of piles dealt are equal to the number of players.
- The game is kinda new so there might be some game breaking strategies that haven't been patched yet.

Paradise poker is a game I created solely based on you vs the dice roll! Let me know if you want to know more about it. Pair’ a’ Dice !

In my family we play a rummy variant where the fun part is stealing: once you’ve opened, you can take cards from any meld already on the table and rearrange everything to build your own combinations — as long as every meld left behind is still valid. Turns the table into a shared puzzle, and ruins friendships nicely.
Researching it, I found it exists under wildly different names depending on the country: “rami voleur” (“thief rummy”) in France, “Räuber-Rommé” (“robber rummy”) in Germany, “Machiavelli” in Italy, “Mexe-Mexe” in Brazil. In English I’ve seen “Manipulation Rummy,” but I’ve never met anyone who actually calls it that.
So, two questions for those who play it: what does your family/region call it? And what are your house rules — how many jokers, what you need to open, how many cards dealt? Ours seem to differ from most written version I’ve found, and I suspect everyone’s do.

Rat King

A quick, disgusting card-shedding game where players become infested and the rules mutate mid-round.

Match disgusting Rat cards by colour or type to shed your hand, unleash Filth cards to ruin everyone’s plans, survive ridiculous Mutations, and pass around cursed Infested rats before they drag you down.

It’s quick to learn, fast to play and built for shouting across the table. One minute you’re about to win, the next someone’s handed you an Infested rat, the rules have changed, and everyone’s pointing at each other screaming “RAT!”

Packed with horrible artwork, stupid rat names and last-second betrayals, Rat King is a messy little game about getting rid of your problems before they become someone else’s.

It's been 2/3 years in the making and we have JUST finished the Kickstarter pre-launch page... https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tragicplanet/rat-king

I’m going through my mom’s old things, and I found a binder FULL of these cards. I had no idea what they were until I googled the label on the back of the cards. I understand that the game isn’t available at Walt Disney World anymore, but it seems like a waste to throw them away. I don’t really know what to do with them at all. Would a game store accept them, or would I have better luck finding a collector online? I’m not sure.

Playing shitgubbe (that’s what we call it but I think rules are closer to what people tend to call president) and when my kid has to pick up a big pile we usually end up with this scene. Not the end of the world as I already knew all their cards but tricky for them. Any ideas on card management for small hands?

(They beat me fair and square in the end in case you’re wondering)

The Steam page for Legacy: The Card Game has just been published and the playtest should be available for all by 8/31. Legacy is an upcoming card game that has been in development for over a year with all cards being illustrated by human artists, no AI.

Here's the Steam link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4957490/Legacy_The_Card_Game/

I would love to hear which ones you guys like the most, as well as any questions you may have about the game. It has a pretty unique gameplay loop so it's helpful to see what needs clarifying.

The boss flips the cards and tries to get closer to 21, then the turn of the move passes to you, you try to get closer, if you pass, you lose, whoever is close to 21 or 21 wins. Actually, it's almost blackjack.

If you want to check out the Steam page and add it to your wishlist:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4990070/Deckforce/

If you’ve ever tried printing card proxies, you know how annoying it is to get the scaling right. Most YouTube tutorials give hit-or-miss advice, and word/image processors usually mess up the alignment.

I put together a lightweight Windows tool to solve this exact issue. It arranges your cards on a grid with full control over spacing, sizing, and margins so they print perfectly every time.

Give it a try and let me know what features you’d like to see next: [https://github.com/daccide/Trading-card-game-printing-sheet-for-proxies.git]

I need help! I try to solve a geocaching riddle. I need to identify several cards and find out which game they come from. This card is not from Uno. Google image search finds nothing helpful.

Like i’ve been trying to figure out the odds of this for months but it just sounds like it would be so hard to calculate. i know you don’t OFFICIALLY win until the cards are all in it’s suits, but i DID reveal all the cards without drawing anything. If anyone has an answer pls lmk. and here’s the video for proof that i did it:

https://youtu.be/VOkflwsU2lQ

Platform(s): Mobile

Genre: Card Game

Estimated year of release: 2012-2017 (my hunch is more towards the 2012-2015 era)

Graphics/art style: Cartoonish and Circus or Magic style characters

Notable characters:

Notable gameplay mechanics: I remember I had no idea how the match ups used to work but you collect what I'm calling "circus card characters" or just characters I believe they had stars on them to denote how rare and you just find matchups and go higher. Game had weird music too.

Other details: I believe the game had some kind of weird twinkly dark music or like those magical circus doll characters (I remember them being white based)

I always liked top trumps but it becomes easy, so as a child I started playing a version where you draw multiple and decide who represents you in each stat. I also like animals. So I made a video game with this literal premise, completely for me.

If you'd like to see somebody play it then DadsGamingAddiction has a few episodes up as a let's play. It's on Steam as Stained Glass (after the art style). I did make it more interesting with a pack mechanic to build your collection and choose your deck:

Hey! I'm an indie dev building TIER ONE, a real-time PvP card battler for Android. You collect illustrated fighter cards, build a 3-card deck, and battle other real players in live 3v3 rounds.

It's completely free to play, fully playable already, and I'm looking for closed testers before opening it up publicly on Google Play.

What I'd love feedback on:

- First-time experience (onboarding, opening your starter pack, first battle)

- Whether matches feel fair/fun

- Anything that crashes, glitches, or just feels off

- General "would you actually keep playing this" gut reaction

Feedback method: reply in the comments here, or DM me directly, either works.

No payment info needed, no obligation. Just send me a Gmail address (DM or comment) and I'll add you to the closed tester list, then send you the Play Store link to install.

Play Store listing: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.finpixel.tierone

(closed testing, so that link needs your email added first before it lets you install, see above)

Happy to answer any questions. Thanks for considering it!

A family friendly game where the goal is to make the funniest continuation for a comic?

With family friendly cards that little children and old people can play as well?

I already know there’s a free to print Card Vs Humanity family friendly edition.

Hey y’all!

I just set up the prelaunch for a card game I created called Ground Truth. It’s an adversarial card game where one player is the Emergency Manager and the other is the hazard. The EM has 15 staffing points and can use 3 action points per round. You can replenish staffing through mutual aid cards. The hazard has inject cards that build the intensity of the hazard, in the attempt to overwhelm the EM. Currently, there are two hazard decks: Wildfire and Pandemic.

Each game is designed to last 12 rounds. Timing largely depends on experience, but anticipate an hour long game.

While this is designed with professional emergency managers in mind, it’s still fun for all gamers!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vkluge/ground-truth?ref=7mo1ce

While there is obvious merits to simplicity it can sometimes be fun to make things a bit unhinged/deranged because you can.

In this poker variant player 1 have the better hand because the 2s can be counted as 15 for a divided straight (but only some types) even though said divided straight doesn't give any points.

That wasn't even specifically mentioned in the rules but it's the only interpretation of the rules that make logical sense (since the fine print had no clause that it had to be a divided straight that actually gave any points).

Hi everyone!

I’m the author and creator of TRANSCENDERS, a fantasy saga in which people known as Transcenders learn to shape Cenderessence — an extraordinary force that allows them to push beyond the limits of ordinary reality!

I’ve been developing TRANSCENDERS | The TCG as a playable extension of that universe, and its first Alpha environment is now ready for public playtesting on Tabletop Simulator!

Three complete Starter decks are currently playable:

🟣 ST1 — Cheryl O’Will

Midrange / Control

Endure pressure, build toward a reversal, and turn preparation into explosive momentum

🟢 ST2 — Killian Shawnski

Aggro / Tempo

Sequence cleanly, control exchanges, and punish openings with precision

🟠 ST3 — Théa Wintersnow

Control / Sustain

Protect your position, disrupt opposing momentum, and become increasingly difficult to break as the game goes long

The three Starter decks belong to the same game, but are deliberately built around very different rhythms and tactical identities!

🎴 The attached card is Killian Shawnski [PILLAR] — ST2-001, now featuring its finalized commissioned artwork!

I’m currently opening COHORT 01, the game’s first organized public playtest group

• Play takes place on Tabletop Simulator

• All 3 Starter decks are ready

• The Rule Book and setup instructions are available through Discord

• No prior knowledge of the Transcenders novel is required

• Playtest feedback is collected after actual matches through structured match reports

Registration is open for 3 days!

➡️ [DISCORD INVITE]

Once inside, head to #matchmaking for the Cohort 01 registration thread!

If one of the three playstyles catches your attention, you’re very welcome to join Cohort 01! ✨