RUTHLESS RETURNS

It's everyone's turn. All the time.

A satirical business game: hire, invest, sue your neighbours and stash your fortune offshore. Free in the browser for 3-6 players. Solo against AI or online with friends.

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Build an empire. Or tear down your neighbour's.

Everyone acts at once

No waiting. Everyone picks at the same time: keep one card, pass the rest. Drafting like you know it from 7 Wonders, and every round hits the whole table at once.

Courtrooms and shitstorms

Sue your neighbours, plant evidence, headhunt their most expensive employee. Everything the newspapers write about, played out at your table.

14 voiced entrepreneurs

220+ illustrated cards and 14 entrepreneurs with their own perks, play styles and voices. The whole game is in English and Danish.

From the table

For fans of 7 Wonders, Sushi Go and Monopoly

The drafting of 7 Wonders

Keep one card, pass the rest along. The same elegant draft as 7 Wonders and Sushi Go: everyone plays at the same time, and nobody sits around waiting for their turn.

The knife of Monopoly

Buy, build and squeeze your friends toward bankruptcy like in Monopoly, just faster and with lawyers. Three fiscal years, then the winner is crowned and the friendships tested.

The humour of Exploding Kittens

Easy to learn, impossible to take entirely seriously. Shitstorms, planted evidence and accounts in Panama: dirty tricks with a wink, in the same spirit as Exploding Kittens and Munchkin.

Ruthless Returns is a free card drafting game right in your browser: a satirical business strategy game for 3 to 6 players, solo against AI or online with friends. If your game group loves 7 Wonders, Sushi Go, Monopoly, Munchkin or Exploding Kittens, pull up a chair at the boardroom table.

Follow the road to the board game

Ruthless Returns board game prototype vision

The digital game is free. The next step is a physical board game on Kickstarter. Sign up and you'll hear when the campaign goes live. Nothing else, no spam.

Three fiscal years. One winner.

You start with a handful of millions and a dream. Then it moves fast: you hire sales sharks and lawyers, push product development to the top and quickly learn that work environment is something you invest in when the press is watching. When a neighbour looks too strong, you send a shitstorm or meet them in court. At the end of every year the auditor settles the books and the taxman wants his cut. Unless your account in Panama says otherwise. After three years the verdict falls: one player keeps the fortune, the rest were expenses.