DECKED OUT
Cyberpunk card game VESPIARY puts the deck in Deckard
COOL TITLES FOR NO CASH by Tom Sykes
Body armour will absorb one enemy attack.
Sometimes the boss escapes to another area.
If modern games have taught me anything, it’s that in the future every outcome will be decided by the drawing of cards. Taking the bins out? Draw a card from your recycling deck. Crap, you drew the ‘stepped in bin juice’ card. Roguish sci-fi game Vespiary is not too far from this hellish scenario, as you can only do what the four cards in your hand allow you to do. Weapon cards are self-explanatory, but you can also bribe cops with cash cards, or uses viruses to hack machines.