Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Easier to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Build an occult deck, bend card values with multipliers, and satisfy one of thirteen radically different Dark Pacts before a rival claims theirs.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Read the full game description
Dark Pact is a deck-building game in which occult researchers bargain for power while pursuing thirteen distinct victory conditions. Players buy from a changing shared supply, add specialized cards through personal grimoires, and play actions, treasures, reactions, and multipliers to build increasingly volatile turns. The x2 and x3 cards modify every numeral on another card, creating explosive combinations as well as dangerous curses. Because each pact asks for a different collection or sequence, the strongest deck is the one shaped deliberately around a visible path to victory.
