Drawing Dead

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Year

2017

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Description

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Drawing Dead is a card game where you assume the role of a saloon patron from the Wild West in order to lie, cheat, and steal your way through a game of stud for the highest stakes imaginable: your soul. The characters in this world are doomed to walk the land of both the living and the dead, hoping to win this game in order to buy themselves a restful sleep - six feet under.

In order to win the hand, you will have to draft one of the many roles available to the players and use the character's special powers to improve your own hand and stop your opponents'. The game is familiar enough for those who know only the basics of poker, but robust enough to keep even the most avid gamer invested from start to finish.

Drawing Dead preview play and impressions

One Stop Co-op Shop Jul 13, 2026

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Video zsFGNql1CaY One Stop Co-op Shop Review at 0:02 sentiment: positive

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Overall sentiment (raw)

positive

Pros

Great time, exciting, tense, and fun.
Awesome card play with combos.
Tactical options with cards usable in multiple ways.
Varied characters and enemies.
Smooth difficulty scaling.
Cool new take on the solo/co-op poker theme.

Cons

Swingy luck due to random enemy activations and card draws.
Potential for frustration for players who dislike luck.
Some rule timing and ability clarifications needed (prototype).
Co-op is functional but not heavily interactive.
Some character abilities might be less useful in solo play.

Thematic elements

escaping or coming back to life through poker-adjacent challenges
the afterlife

Comparison games

Flip Towns

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

banking — A mechanic to store cards in a side area to be swapped into hand later, used for mitigating luck.
Deck Building — The deck gets 'smaller and smaller' as cards go to the lost pile, and can be reshuffled. The concept of 'trashing' cards is mentioned.
Hand Management — Players draw three cards and decide how to use them for actions, adding to the gate, or other areas.
Poker Hands — Abilities are activated based on forming poker hands like straights, flushes, and pairs using cards in hand.
Push Your Luck — Players must balance taking actions that might damage them or trash cards against achieving their goals.
recycle — A keyword allowing players to take cards from the lost pile and put them into the discard pile to be shuffled back into the deck.
Resource Management — Players manage life points and power, and gain tokens like diamond tokens.
Set Collection — Collecting cards of the same suit (flush) or rank (pairs, three of a kind, etc.) is key to activating abilities.
Tamper — A keyword that allows drawing extra cards and slotting them into the river, discarding existing cards.

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Quotes (from this video)

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The game is exciting. It lets you find cool combos and cool plays to survive.
So, Drawing Dead is one of a line of recent solo and co-op kind of poker adjacent games, which I love.
It's pretty dang swingy.
I think that's really neat. Gives you a lot of tactical options.

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Video lFdTxmY_h3o One Stop Co-op Shop Discussion at 0:47 sentiment: other

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Overall sentiment (raw)

Liked a lot, potentially more satisfying than Ace of Spades