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Bangquet

Two to four survivors, one crate, one live grenade. Every parcel is sealed, every parcel but one is survivable, and only the person holding it knows which.

Type
Turn-based bluffing
Table
2–4 · solo & online PvP
Platform
PC · Mac · Linux
Released
August 2026

The premise

One crate. One grenade.

Bangquet seats two to four survivors around a table in the wasteland and puts a crate between them. You draw, you look, and nobody else does.

What happens next is the whole game. Tell the truth and be disbelieved. Lie and get frisked. Level a revolver at the survivor opposite and demand they draw instead — the cylinder might be loaded, it might be empty, and only you know which.

The grenade goes to whoever runs out of nerve first.

First-person view across the Bangquet table with three other survivors and a crate between them

The table

Read the room, not the cards

First person, across the table, in the dark, with Raider, Doc, Scav and Raven for company. Everything you know comes from three places: the parcel in your hands, the kit you were willing to spend, and the survivor who just told you the box is clean.

The kit

What you can bring to bear

Information is the only real currency at this table, and every piece of it costs something to buy.

The box

Sealed parcels, drawn blind. One holds the live grenade; the rest hold whatever the wasteland saw fit to pack. If you dislike the odds, you can put a round through the box instead of reaching into it.

The scope

Preview the next parcel before anyone else touches it. The knowledge is only worth what you can make the table believe.

The frisk

Search a survivor and expose an empty gun. A bluff survives exactly until someone is willing to pay to check it.

The sandbag

Absorbs a blast that was meant for you. One-time insurance against one very bad draw, and no help at all with the next.

The revolver

Level it and name a demand: draw from the crate, surrender the kit, or forfeit the turn. Loaded or empty, the demand looks identical.

House rules

The terms of the table shift between sittings. Learn the new rules fast, or lose to them before you have read them.

The standoff

Comply, jam, or call it

Every raised gun opens the same four-step exchange. Nobody at the table can see the cylinder, and everybody has to decide anyway.

Cost: your turn

Level the gun

Pick a survivor and name the demand — hand over, you draw, or sit out. Nothing about the cylinder is public, and nothing about your face has to be honest.

Cost: position

Comply

The target does as told. It is the cheap way out, and it walks the grenade one step closer to them.

Cost: kit, both sides

Jam

The target fouls the weapon and buys the turn back. It costs them something. It costs you more.

Cost: ammunition, or standing

Call it

They refuse and force the issue. If the gun is loaded, they wear it. If it is empty, you either spend ammunition or back down in front of the whole table.

Ways to sit down

Alone, or against people

1 player

Solo

Full runs against AI survivors, each with their own tells, appetite for risk and willingness to be caught lying.

2–4 players

Online PvP

Cross-platform tables against other players. Bluffs land differently when there is a person on the other end reading you back.

Tutorial

Guided entry

Tutorials walk the crate, the kit and the standoff before you sit down somewhere it counts.

Single-player Online PvP Cross-platform play Steam achievements Steam Cloud Family Sharing

Captures

From the table

Select any frame to enlarge.

Using the scope to preview the next parcel in the crate
The scope: what you saw is yours to report, or not
A revolver levelled across the table at another survivor
At gunpoint: loaded and empty look the same
The live parcel in play as the timer runs down
Hot potato: pass it fast, and hope

Requirements

Minimum spec

As listed on the store page for the shipped build.

Windows

CPU
Ryzen 5 3600
Memory
8 GB RAM
GPU
GTX 1060
Storage
500 MB

macOS

CPU
Apple Silicon / Intel Core M
Memory
8 GB RAM
GPU
Integrated
Storage
500 MB

SteamOS / Linux

CPU
Ryzen 5 3600
Memory
8 GB RAM
GPU
GTX 1060
Storage
500 MB