Ace of Spades

AoS just sort of seems like someone wanted to make a physical Balatro game but realized halfway through that there's no feasible way to capture all of that game's interesting twists and mechanics. So they just sort of...made Balatro without most of the elements that make that game interesting. ... the game itself just doesn't really seem worth my while.

In our recent game Ace of Spades, we included two inappropriate illustrations: one depicting a black person in a state of enslavement, and another portraying an enslaver.

Sitting Bull as a demon. Pretty insensitive. The Brute is a beefy and grotesque Hispanic guy with a huge sombrero. The Shaman and Voodoo guys are also depicting racial minorities and are pretty insensitive to their sacred practices. The FUGITIVE is frankly terrible enough on its own but it's hard to ignore how many misses of varying degrees there are.

Thematically the enemy is a necromancer and you are fighting the resurrected zombie version of a runaway slave and the person chasing him. But, like... they just plowed into every worse possible choice during execution. Including this being like the *only* minority representation in the game.

Not only with that art, but in the role of a character you, as the player, need to defeat. Again, depending on how the enemy deck is randomly constructed, this game **may require you fight and defeat a runaway slave** in order to win. The fuck?

Those cards paired together are *really* bad and it would have been so easy to avoid. The fugitive could have been literally anyone.

WTF!?!? That is atrocious. It’s not like this is something that is being misunderstood… it’s just so blatant. Devil have got some serious questions to answer here, how this got through the editing/proofing phase is beyond me

Some deeply offensive imagery pointed out in Ace of Spades