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Grimshaw's Blotto

A gothic 1v1 card-and-dice strategy game of hidden plays, escalating drafts, and blood-cost powers. Face Grimshaw's Inner Circle in campaign or duel online at a cursed table.

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About the Game

You sat down. You picked up the cards. The room closed around you.

Grimshaw's Blotto is a gothic 1v1 card-and-dice strategy game of hidden plays, cruel drafts, and blood-bought power. Build two lanes, tuck your effects face-down, then reveal and roll. Your dice are your attack and your defense at once: win a lane, and the difference in rolls becomes damage.

Every round makes the table meaner. Draft stronger dice and harsher effects between rounds. Hide blessings, curses, and Pith beside your visible bones. Spend Dram to claim power now and survive the cost later. After the first lane resolves, the winner can Press and turn the second lane into a double-damage gamble. Every decision is a bluff. Every bluff is a wound waiting to open.

Climb through Grimshaw's Inner Circle in a single-player campaign as the room grows colder, the faces less human, and the table shows more of its hunger. Or sit across from another player online and learn how much either of you is willing to bleed before you break.

Key Features

  • 1v1 card-and-dice duels built around simultaneous hidden placement

  • A two-lane system where every roll is both offense and defense

  • Visible base dice and hidden effect cards that create bluffing, reads, and reversals

  • Between-round drafting that escalates both decks into deadlier shapes

  • Blood-cost powers, Pith cards, and The Press turning one good read into a lethal swing

  • A gothic single-player campaign against Grimshaw's monstrous Inner Circle

  • Online multiplayer for head-to-head duels at the same cursed table