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Doomtown: Reloaded

Build a weird-west deck and settle Gomorra's turf wars with shootouts decided by poker hands.

Doomtown: Reloaded is a weird-west card game set in Gomorra, California, where outlaws, lawmen and worse fight over the town. It is an Expandable Card Game, so you build your deck from a fixed set of cards in the box, around an Outfit such as the Law Dogs or the Sloane Gang. You play dudes to claim deeds, cast hexes, and settle arguments with shootouts, which use a poker mechanism: every card has a suit and a value, so deckbuilding is also about preparing the hands you want to draw. It plays two to four, about thirty minutes in its simplest form and much longer in practice, and rewards players who like bluffing, tinkering and a Wild West with a supernatural streak.

Shootouts decided by poker handsFour outfits fighting over GomorraBuild your deck from the box's fixed card set

Who it's for

You like deck building with a twist, enjoy Western horror and have a regular opponent to master the poker-shootout system with.

Not for you if…

You want a quick pick-up game. The rules and combos are rich, and it rewards repeated play with the same opponent.

Vibe's take

Clever and tricky, with a gambler's swagger. Each shootout is a mix of bluff, odds and prep work, and your deck feels like a poker hand you built in advance.

#2,133 on BGG

of over 30,000 ranked board games

Published 2014 · 12 years ago

older than 67% of games

In 6,468 collections

collected more than 67% of games

2–4 players · ages 14+

Best with 2 · publisher: 12+

about 30 min

shorter than 69% of games · typical 30–90 min

Complexity: heavy

For experienced groups · 3.6 out of 5 · heavier than 93%

Opinions: divided

Some love it, others really don’t

Language: lots of text

Lots of text, fluency helps

Play style: competitive