Black Jacket

Every soul wandering the afterlife has a story, and every one of them is sitting across the table with cards in hand. To earn your freedom, you’ll need to win their coin, bribe the ferryman, and find a way to break the cycle keeping you both trapped here.

Black Jacket is a blackjack inspired rogue lite deckbuilder from developer Mi’pu’mi Games. Playing hand after hand against the restless souls of hell, you’ll stack your deck with powerful cards, bend the rules of the table in your favour, and collect Artifacts, Card Suits, and Curses that unlock near infinite combinations across every run.

What Makes It Different?

• Play blackjack against the restless souls of a hellish afterlife
• Stack your deck with powerful cards that bend the usual rules
• Force opponents to overcommit, or shift their card values in your favour
• Peek into your own deck or take control of your opponent’s instead
• Collect Artifacts, Card Suits, and Curses to gain an edge
• Unlock near infinite card combinations and strategies with every run
• Learn each opponent’s story through their hands to break the cycle trapping you both

A Deck Built to Cheat the Odds

Regular blackjack rules only get you so far in Black Jacket. Powerful cards let you swap hands with an opponent, control their deck outright, or uncover secret combinations hidden within your own, turning a simple game of chance into something far more strategic. Collecting Artifacts, Card Suits, and Curses along the way stacks even more possibilities into your deck, and finding the right combination of tricks becomes the real key to victory.

Every Opponent Has a Story

Rather than facing down a nameless dealer, you’re playing against souls with their own histories and reasons for being stuck in this hellish afterlife. Since opponents are shown only through their hands, reading their playstyle and understanding their curses becomes part of learning who they really are. Getting to know them, hand by hand, is what gradually reveals a path toward breaking the cycle for good.

How Long Does a Run Take?

An average individual run in Black Jacket typically lasts between 30 to 60 minutes. Overall time investment varies by playstyle, with the main story taking around 7 and a half hours on average, main story plus side content taking around 12 hours, and a full completionist playthrough taking around 21 and a half hours.

Controller Support

Black Jacket features Full Controller Support for Xbox Controllers.

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Balatro and CloverPit are the closest comparisons here, and Black Jacket earns its place right alongside them. Cheat Death is also worth checking out if this kind of dark, card driven gambling roguelite is your thing.