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Chinese Dinner Gathering

Chinese Dinner Gathering is a turn-based card-battler that distills the perilous art of Chinese dinner politics. Build your own deck, pick your style and duel with guanxi itself. Every round brings new faces and new rules, while your deck keeps growing and the game of social chess never ends.

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ParticleInteraction
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About the Game

Banquet Simulator

We’ve fused a card game with the Chinese art of banquet politics to create the ultimate dinner-table experience. Build your own deck, meet dozens of wildly different NPCs, and rewrite the rules of Chinese dining etiquette with every round of baijiu.

Key Features

• No Two Tables Alike: Procedurally generated guests, seating orders, dishes, and surprise events ensure every banquet feels both brand-new and eerily familiar.
• Guanxi Deck: 100+ unique cards—catchphrases, toasts, favors, and tricks—let the same sentence or drink land in endlessly fresh ways.
• Atmosphere Meter: A visible “vibe” scale can be weaponized to flip the table or torpedoed by a single bad joke; one line can make or break the night.
• NPC Bonds: Bosses, childhood friends, clients, exes, future in-laws—every character arrives with backstory and baggage. Toast them or throw them under the bus; they’ll remember and repay the favor (or vendetta) at the next banquet.
• Permanent Growth: Whether you exit in glory or crash in cringe, you’ll bring home “social savvy” to unlock new cards, identities, and opening lines—growing smoother with every sip, clearer with every hangover.

Gameplay

Assemble the Table: Pick your role (newbie, veteran, host), choose a starter deck, and bring a “kickoff bottle” (your opening skill) into the feast.

Turn Flow: On your turn, play cards and interact with NPCs in real time; every move shifts the global vibe and your relationships.

Meta-Loop: Use what you earned to upgrade your deck, unlock new roles, and rewrite your opening toast—then step into the next round of your protagonist’s lifelong drinking odyssey.

Solo Story Mode: Follow three pivotal banquets—“Promotion Dinner,” “Blind-Date Banquet,” and “Family Reunion Feast”—and survive the three toughest battles in a Chinese lifetime.

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