You Owe Bruno

You Owe Bruno is a solo poker-inspired card game about debt, bad decisions, and increasingly unpleasant men named Bruno. All you need is a standard deck of playing cards, a printed player sheet, pencil and eraser, and about 20-30 minutes. You owe money to eight Brunos. To pay them off, you'll build poker hands, scrounge for useful tools, and bend the rules just enough to keep yourself alive. Tools can make weak hands playable, turn cards into something they aren't, give you extra time, or occasionally solve a problem with dynamite. The trouble is that every Bruno changes the rules. One might limit your hand size. Another might forbid discards. Another might demand that every scoring hand be different. As the game continues, your collection of useful tricks gets pulled apart and the amount of money you owe keeps climbing. You'll need to decide when to build an engine, when to improvise, and when to accept that a perfectly good plan has just become useless. You Owe Bruno is designed as a compact print-and-play solo game with minimal components and a lot of situational play. It draws inspiration from poker-engine games like Balatro and Solatro , while aiming for the feel of a small tabletop card game rather than a digital score-chasing experience. Version 0.12 This is the end of development version of You Owe Bruno . The game is substantially complete and playable as-is, but I am still doing final playtesting, balance checks, rules cleanup, and production polishing before calling it finished. At this point I am mostly looking for awkwardness: unclear wording, strange interactions, balance issues, and anything else that only tends to show up after people besides me spend time with it. Rules, values, and presentation may still change before the 1.0 release, but I do not expect the basic structure of the game to move very much from here. A4 and low ink version will be provided closer to launch. A digital version of some type will be created when this project is complete. What you need One standard 52-card deck with 2 Jokers The printed player sheets and rules A pen or pencil with an eraser AI Usage and Disclaimer Game design, graphic design, playtesting and production choices were made by me. AI tools assisted in rule review, probability analysis, Bruno and title illustration.