Called Shot

Call your shot. Then make it.

There are no honest gunslingers here. Someone walks up smiling, digs through your hand with a Threaten card, and a moment later they're lining up a Winchester loaded with a Silver Bullet from a hundred yards out. Called Shot is a card-driven western battle royale inspired by the board game Bang!. The difference is that cards only decide what you do. Pulling the trigger, putting the sights on someone's head, and getting out of the way of incoming fire is all on your hands and your reflexes.

Cards are strategy. Bullets are skill.

Farm cards, build your hand
Scour a sprawling western town for cards and build a deck from what you find. Punch through defenses with a Silver Bullet, set someone burning with an Incendiary Round, or quietly pass the Dynamite to the person next to you.

Aiming is your job
Real-time third-person aiming and shooting. It doesn't matter how good your card is if your hands shake.

Mind games are a weapon
Peek at a hand with Threaten. Take what you want with Pickpocket. Sell a shot that was never real with Bluff.

Play dead, then betray
Catch your breath while everyone thinks you're gone, then pull the trigger at the moment nobody saw coming.

Farm, brawl in the plaza, finish on the train

A match runs like this:

Farming phase
Tear through the town for cards, buy and sell at the shop, and finish your deck before the fighting starts.

Plaza free-for-all
Up to eight players take turns around a circular plaza. You watch what the person ahead of you does and answer it. The information war starts here.

Runaway train finale
When two players are left, the stage moves to a train hauling stolen gold. The last duel happens on a swaying rooftop.

Low-poly west, cheerful deaths

Called Shot trades bloody realism for a bright low-poly western. The tone stays light enough that getting shot is still funny, while the thinking underneath stays serious.

Who this is for

• Anyone who loves social deduction card games like Bang! or Secret Hitler

• Anyone who likes battle royales but is tired of the same gunfight every match

• Anyone who wants the satisfaction of a clean betrayal more than a close loss

• Anyone looking for a game to backstab friends over and laugh about after