Carpe Deal 'Em

Carpe Deal 'Em combines a life simulator with a card game, visual novel and CYOA elements. Each year of a character’s life is a round: you play and discard cards to shape events and their outcomes. The cards you play generate each event directly, changing your character’s stats and influencing the kinds of events and effects they encounter later.

Shape a life

You control your character’s career, dwelling, diet and spending. Randomly generated characters have a wide range of individual stats that influence their lives, and the game generates a wide range of life events. Interactions between card types add strategic depth.

Reach the end

The hierarchy of needs provides a win condition: reach its top to free your character from the cycle of life and death. You can also ignore the win condition and play as a life simulator. The game lets you export a summary of a character’s life and a portrait memento.