VELATO
VELATO is a Poker-Bluff Roguelike Deckbuilder where players build powerful Joker synergies, and survive escalating tables in a roguelike deckbuilder where every opponent remembers how you play.
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VELATO
A poker-bluff roguelike deckbuilder where you have to outsmart the opponent reading you.
In VELATO, you sit across the table from the system Bosses that watch how you play, remembers when you've bluffed, and decides whether to call you out. Every hand becomes two games at once: the poker hand you build, and the mind game you play to sell it.
Does the bluff go through or will the Bosses call it out? Do you dare to bluff? 🤡
What is the Game like?
Velato has 3 play modes:
Single mode - Single-player vs Bosses
Battle Mode - Player vs Player (On the Roadmap)
Hell Mode - Multiplayer (On the Roadmap)
You will climb through endless floors, and each floor puts you through three escalating tables.
Small table — warm up and set your strategy with 50 Golds per table
Big table — pressure rises, stakes climb from 50 to 70 Golds and more per Table
What are the specials?
Bluff against 24 Bosses
It's Poker. It's Roguelike and you need to build your deck carefully. Pick up the best hand to bluff and challenge the Bosses to survive and play on next tables.
124 Jokers to help you survive
You can buy Joker after beating a boss in Velato Store.
Read and calculate carefully before you buy any Jokers. If not, you will not gain any scores in the next table.
24 bosses in Velato
If you can survive, you meet different boss in each new table. Each boss will have their own power to defend your hand and you need to remember all their faces to build the most appropriate deck to beat them.
Bluff is The heart of the game
The bluff system is the thing we're most proud of. That tension of staring down an opponent and daring them to call you — the kind that normally only exists in multiplayer poker — now lives inside a single-player poker-bluff roguelike deckbuilder. It turns every hand from play for fun to play and calculate to survive.
You can choose "Challenge" or "Skip" button if you're confident with your Jokers' power.
