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.
Pick a card. Pass the rest. Watch your carefully chosen strategy arrive in your neighbour's hand. Everyone plays simultaneously, so there is no waiting for someone to finish thinking. They can disappoint you in real time.
Sue your neighbours. Plant evidence. Poach their most expensive employee. Everything from the business pages, except now it is happening to someone you invited over.
Choose from 14 entrepreneurs, each with a unique advantage, play style and voice. The lawyer sues. The influencer controls the narrative. The banker survives consequences. Somehow, all of them believe they are the reasonable one.
Keep one card and pass the rest. Everyone chooses simultaneously, so nobody waits for a turn. You only wait to discover what your neighbour did with the lawyer you handed them.
Buy, build and push your friends toward bankruptcy, like Monopoly, only faster and with lawyers. After three fiscal years, the richest player wins and everyone else develops a very detailed memory of what happened.
Easy to learn. Difficult to explain to your ethics committee. Shitstorms, planted evidence and accounts in Panama, all handled with the maturity expected from people playing cards around a table.
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.
The entrepreneurs have started buying their own airtime. We apologise.
Mostly because waiting for cardboard felt inefficient. Ruthless Returns is free to play in your browser today. The physical board game is heading to Kickstarter once the lawyers, printers and people who understand shipping have stopped looking concerned. Sign up and we will tell you when it launches. Nothing else. We are building a game, not an email marketing funnel.
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You start with a handful of millions and a dream. Hire people, develop products and build investments that pay every year. Then discover that your neighbour has filed a lawsuit, poached your best employee and moved the proceeds to Panama. At every year-end settlement, income arrives, expenses grow, loans come due and the taxman asks an unreasonable number of questions. After the third fiscal year, one player keeps the fortune. The rest were expenses.