Crooked Deck
A downloadable game for Windows and Linux
On the land of the free
Lived a man of the sea
Full of tales of pirates
And cards they wouldn't see
Crooked Deck is a game where a pirate captain invites you to gamble around a game of cards. The captain is a stickler for rules, but in this game, playing by them is probably not the play. Will you play or get played?
(This game is played exclusively with a mouse)
Troubleshooting :
- If you pick cards too quickly, the pirate might think you're cheating
- When you draw a card, try to put it in your hand with you mouse not far enough down the screen, the game will think you juste dropped the card
Hint : If you're having trouble not ending up at the bottom of the sea, with each defeat, a new hint will be revealed to help you defeat that damn pirate !
Credits:
TheMagnat: Code, VFX and 3D modelling
Kryspou: 2D art
ObaniGarage: Code, Dialogs and SFX/music
Game made with Godot Engine
Source: https://github.com/TheMagnat/Brackeys-Game-Jam-2025
P.S: we haven't tested, but this game is probably suited for playing with several people, the only problem is with kings, you might want to exclude them from the game to not have infinitely big hands.
Update :
- 1.1 : We updated the game to v1.1 to fix bugs we saw in some people gameplay (card hand hitbox, played card detection time taking too long when too much cards) :)
- 1.2 : Finally managed to fix this damn cloud bug ! Also made the dialogs slower to make them more accessible to non-native English players :)
- 1.2.1 : Corrected some English mistakes in the dialogs
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Install instructions
If you're on Windows, maybe the antivirus will tell you that launching this is risky, as it will do with every game jam game made with Godot Engine. If you need proof that there's nothing sneaky, our code is available on GitHub.


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Sadly, the last version crashes at start on Windows (it asks me to launch Godot with OpenXR, which means VR?). Can't play!
Hey, sorry to hear that, could you please share with us what graphic card are you using ? :)
RTX 3080
I wanted to ask the artists, if you want to participate in a jam in 3 days (PatchNotes jam)
or any other jam. I am a programmer and I love your art, and want to make games with cool 2d/3d artstyle.
Discord .dezm0n
Text me, if you want, thanks 😊
Excellent game play :D Reminds me much of Obra Dinn due to sea shanty vibe, but the game play is really fun, found myself literally immerse quite almost an hour into this :D For scaling up, I would wish for some "levelling" mechanics, like the pirate turns away a tad longer or some sort, or the cards are somehow magically reduced to lower value and all that.
Very well done, was very enjoyable to me :D
Hey, thanks for those kind words and the idea ! It was a game jam project so we focused a lot on polishing the feeling of the game, but yes, extending it to a more complete experience could be a thing if we get the motivation and the desire to do it !
pretty fun good job! was to eager to play so I skip the in game tutorial at first but then I had a good shot at it. Really nice shader effect on the cam there, nice mood overall. Bit slow but that's ok. I had more fun once I figured if I cheated I needed to throw one card bellow the table.