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Bet on Beta

A roguelike deckbuilder where your team is so chaotic that every sprint is like playing on a slot machine. Hire coworkers, staff the reels, and spin for features and OKRs. Garage startup all the way to IPO.

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Caipora Studio
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About the Game

Succeeding in the startup world is like winning a jackpot

You founded a startup. You have a team, a runway, and a slot machine where the reels are your coworkers. Good luck.

Bet on Beta is a roguelike deckbuilder about building a tech company from pre-seed to IPO — one absurd sprint at a time. Each turn, you draft a hand of team-member cards and assign them to the reels. Spin. Resolve. Ship a feature, close a ticket, or watch your Head of Growth trigger a chain reaction that somehow saves the quarter.

There is no persistent machine. Every hand is a new machine. Every run is a new company.

What you'll do

  • Draft your team, turn by turn. Coworkers have synergies, quirks, and opinions. A Senior Engineer next to a Junior Designer does something different than a Senior Engineer next to a VP of Sales.

  • Progress through startup milestones. Tickets become epics. Epics become OKRs. OKRs become funding rounds — pre-seed, seed, Series A, all the way to IPO.

  • Survive investor pitches. Boss fights are pitch meetings. VCs have demands, term sheets, and pattern-matching brains. Read the room, or don't.

  • Each run tells a different story of how a company lives or dies.

  • Exploit unfair advantages by hacking the machine.

The vibe

Hand drawn neo brutalist visuals. Zero mercy for buzzwords. Written by someone who survived 12 years in the tech industry.

For fans of

Balatro. Luck Be a Landlord. Slots & Daggers. Anyone who has ever nodded seriously at the phrase "let's circle back offline."

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