Overround

ABOUT THIS GAME

Overround is a sports betting and management roguelite set inside Palmabet, a small betting shop where every decision can bring you a little closer to getting out... or give you another reason to stay.

You start with a limited amount of money, a debt to pay, and several days ahead of you. Analyze matches, study the odds, place bets, buy items and bonuses, and decide how much risk you are willing to take to make it to the end.

BET IN A WORLD THAT KEEPS MOVING

Each matchday features games simulated in real time across a championship made up of two leagues and twenty teams.

Clubs have their own squads, statistics, strength levels, and form. You can bet on different markets before matches begin, then follow the action on the betting shop’s TVs while your bets are settled.

It is not just about finding the highest odds: you will have to decide when to take risks, when to protect your money, and when a bet that looks too good may not be quite as good as it seems.

BUILD YOUR RUN

During each run, you can obtain charms and bonuses that change the way you play.

Some improve specific situations, while others affect the shop, reports, betting, or different systems in the game. Combining their effects well can make the difference between reaching the next day or ending up with nothing.

You will also find:

• single and accumulator bets;

• bonuses with their own effects and restrictions;

• reports on teams, players, and markets;

• a physical roulette table inside the shop;

• a store that changes throughout the run;

• different rescue systems for when things go particularly badly.

COLLECT, UNLOCK, AND CHANGE THE RULES

Outside each run, there is a permanent collection with hundreds of player cards, packs, and an album that keeps progressing between runs.

Completing certain pages gives you access to run modifiers that change the rules of future runs: more or less starting money, especially attacking or defensive leagues, changes to odds, betting restrictions, and other variations that alter your strategy.

Winning a run does not mean you have seen everything.

EVERYTHING HAPPENS INSIDE PALMABET

Palmabet is not just a menu.

Move around the shop, use the betting terminals, check your phone, talk to the cashier, visit the store, watch matches on TV, open packs, browse your collection, or head over to the roulette table.

The aim is for every system to exist as part of the same physical space, with the betting shop itself becoming the place where the run unfolds.

A SATIRE ABOUT WINNING

Overround uses the language, aesthetics, and mechanics of betting to explore something fairly simple as well:

what it actually means to win.

The better things go for you, the more reasons you have to keep going.

And maybe that is exactly the problem.

Overround is a simulation video game. It does not allow real-money betting, the withdrawal of real winnings, or any financial benefit outside the game.