Play to win. Die to haunt.
Everyone has a dangerously fun time either way.
There are games where you bluff. Games where you optimize. Games where you slowly build an empire across a modular board like a spreadsheet-wielding demigod.
And then… there’s this one.
il Capo is a thematic, fast, and mean little game that plays like someone shuffled a knife fight into a deck of cards and lit it on fire.
Game stores pre-ordered before we even launched our website. Why? Because it’s vicious. It’s fast. It’s funny. And it’s one of the few games where losing can be the best part.
2-6 players
Fast, competitive play
Even faster setup and teach
Perfect for a group to test their relationships or a couple to experience a strategic, stylish, and brutal collapse of everything they love.
il Capo is a compact card game of lies, ambushes, and calculated exits, set in the grimy underbelly of Serenissima: a fictional city where everyone is well armed and morally bankrupt.
The goal: Don’t die.
The method: Draw carefully, play ruthlessly, and make everyone else die instead.
Last one standing becomes il Capo: a title that sounds glamorous until you realize how many corpses it took to earn.
il Capo is currently in Super Early Bird stage and a few pre-production copies are floating around. Sign up to hear about il Capo’s launch first.
Coming soon from the streets of Serenissima.
A game that begins—begins, mind you—by throwing a table across the board and somewhere midgame your character has one foot on a barrel, a dagger in hand, and someone’s ghost just flipped the table you’re standing on, sending you flying into a firefight.
No alliances. No strategy phase. Just an old bar, on the wrong side of town, full of the city’s worst instincts.
Welcome to Serenissima’s finest drinking establishment.
Try not the bleed on the floor.
This is a game of planned chaos, of glorious battle, of moments that make you shout “YOU CAN DO THAT?!” and then, seconds later, “WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?!”
Tavern Brawl is a game that is currently cooking in il Capo’s kitchen and will be making playtest appearances at conventions and game nights across New England.
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