Unclean Hands

Take a seat. The spirits are dealing.

The bathhouse after midnight. Thick steam, one candle, and something across the table that wants to play Durak. It cheats. You can cheat too, as long as nobody is looking. Unclean Hands is a PS1-style horror card game about catching liars, lying well, and paying for both with your own fingers.

Durak is the classic Russian card game: 36 cards, beat each attack with a higher card of the same suit or a trump, or pick the cards up. Whoever is left holding cards is the fool.

They cheat. Catch them.

Every spirit has its own trick. The Bannik slips a false card into the beaten pile through the steam. The Kikimora throws a card from her sleeve. Baba Yaga swaps the trump card under the deck while her black cat watches you. The Leshy covers your card with one of the wrong suit and hides it under a fallen leaf. The Domovoy swaps his worst card for your best one under the table. The Mavka fishes the best card out of the beaten pile and drowns her worst one in its place. Likho the One-Eyed dozes; wake it with your cheating and it opens its one eye on your hand. Spot it, hit GOTCHA!, and the spirit pays. Call it wrong and you pay.

Cheat back.

When the spirit turns away, a bar runs down over the table: that is your window.

• Hide a card in the birch broom for later
  
• Throw in a card of the wrong rank
  
• Beat an attack with the wrong card

Hold the button and the card slides across the table. Too slow, or seen, and you lose a finger.

One night at a time.

A night is three tables in a row, and who sits at them changes from night to night. A night takes about 20–30 minutes. Between tables you pick one of 20 amulets, and the steam closes one wound. Win a night and a harder one opens: eight nights from the Ordinary Night to the Devil's Night, each with one new rule. On the Devil's Night the Devil-banker waits at a fourth table.

With friends.

Up to four friends sit at the same table through Steam. The spirit cheats against everyone, and anyone can call GOTCHA on anyone, including each other.

Features

• Classic 36-card Durak with a Slavic horror twist
  
• Eight spirits, eight tricks: the Bannik, the Domovoy, the Kikimora, the Leshy, Baba Yaga, the Mavka, Likho and the Devil-banker
  
• Cheat back: hide cards, throw in the wrong rank, beat with the wrong card
  
• Online play for 2–4 players through Steam
  
• A ladder of eight nights, each with its own rule
  
• Night of the day: the same night for everyone, a new Steam leaderboard every day
  
• Until the Roosters Crow: after a won night, sit on, table after table, for the record
  
• 20 amulets and 23 Steam achievements
  
• PS1-style horror: low-poly models, low-res dithered look, candlelight and fog

Coming later

• More spirits are on the way

Made by two people

Unclean Hands is made by Two Liars, a two-person studio. The art, 3D models and sound are made with code and Blender scripts. No generative AI is used to create any of the game's art, models, music or sound.