♠ A solo card-driven game system
Poker Run Engine turns a standard 52-card deck into a full solo campaign. Draw your hand, read what it tells you, and push deeper before the run turns against you — across a growing shelf of standalone genre settings, from cosmic horror to cyberpunk data-heists.
One resolution system. One deck. Genre-agnostic core. Built for short, tense solo expeditions.
No custom cards or dice required. A normal 52-card deck is the entire resolution engine.
Every check is a poker hand. Pattern recognition, not arithmetic.
The same engine powers sci-fi salvage, folk horror, trench warfare, and cyberpunk heists.
Draw five, discard what you don't want, evaluate the hand. That's the whole resolution system.
Short expeditions (10–25 minutes), clear pressure curve, and a real final confrontation.
The full core system is open. Build and publish your own overlays under the PRECL.
Every overlay runs on the same resolution system — no two runs read the same way, because no two hands do.
Build your hand from the deck. What you're dealt sets the shape of the run before you make a single choice.
Advance into the next zone. Every overlay reskins this differently — a wreck, a woods, a city block — same pressure underneath.
Burn resources to improve a bad hand or bank a good one. What you're protecting always costs something.
Face what the run's been building toward. Pair or better and you've got a shot — high card alone won't save you.
One expedition loop. One resolution system. The same structure under every setting.
The System Reference Document holds the full core engine — the resolution system, the resource framework, and the design patterns every overlay above is built from. It's not a requirement to play; it's an invitation to build.
Free download · No sign-up required · Open under the PRECL
