If modern games have taught me anything, it’s that in the future every outcome will be decided by the drawing of cards. Taking the bins out? Draw a card from your recycling deck. Crap, you drew the ‘stepped in bin juice’ card. Roguish sci-fi game Vespiary is not too far from this hellish scenario, as you can only do what the four cards in your hand allow you to do. Weapon cards are self-explanatory, but you can also bribe cops with cash cards, or uses viruses to hack machines.
If you hadn’t guessed already, this is set in the gritty cyberfuture, and frankly the city is an utter state. The streets are packed with cyberscum, and it’s up to you – as one of three bounty hunters – to clean it up, one crime boss at a time.
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