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?
Read the table, follow rival actions, and race through the Major Arcana before fate slips away.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Multi-Use Cards
Use the same card in different ways, making each play a trade-off.
Hand Management
Time and sequence a limited hand of cards to preserve future options.
Open Drafting
Select cards or items from a shared face-up display.
Follow
Choose whether to perform a reduced version of another player’s selected action.
Race
Compete to reach a destination, threshold, or objective before opponents.
Read the full game description
Soothsayers is a competitive card game built around four actions and one deliciously awkward choice: acting now may let every rival follow. Players earn coins, draft common cards, ascend through levels, and capture tarot cards whose powers can redirect the race. When another soothsayer chooses an action, lower-level rivals may pay to follow it, so every move also creates an opportunity for the table. Multi-use cards and changing tarot powers reward flexible hands, while scarce Fate tokens let players seize crucial timing. The result is a brisk, interactive race in which reading opponents matters as much as building your own path through the Major Arcana.
