Hello friends. This is a Let’s Play video of “The Devil’s Due” demo version. You lost your soul in a poker game against the Devil. Now, trapped in the infernal depths, your only hope is to fight your way back to freedom. You’ll face a diverse gallery of monstrous foes in nearly impossible poker battles – but luckily, you’re a cheater.
There’s a small but fiercely beloved corner of the indie shelf reserved for games that take a single classic card game and twist it into something entirely new, and The Devil’s Due from Games People Play is sliding straight into the seat once warmed by Balatro and Inscryption. The premise is pure Faustian comic strip: you bet your soul on a poker hand against the Devil himself, lost catastrophically, and the only way back out of Hell is to win the rematch against an entire roster of monstrous opponents, each with their own gimmick. The hook is that you are, blessedly, a cheater, mid-hand card swaps, conceals, value-boosts, opponent draw sabotage, the works, and every trick you pull raises a suspicion meter that sends your demonic opponent feral if you push it too far. The twist beneath the twist is that you and your enemy draw from the same deck, so every card you tutor in, double up, or destroy reshapes both sides of the table. Hand strength determines damage, summed card values become defence, tarot cards laid out by the Devil himself dictate your path through monster fights, shops, healing shrines, and mini-games, and each death sends you back upstairs with permanent unlocks for the next attempt. Demo is live in Steam Next Fest, full release pencilled for Q3 2026, and this is the kind of clever premise the deckbuilder shelf will quietly canonise within a year.
Developer: Games People Play
Publisher: Games People Play
Genre: Strategy, Roguelike, Deckbuilder, Card Game, Indie
Release Date: Q3 2026
Reviewed on: PC/Windows
Available on: PC/Windows
Link: Steam
Review copy was demo.
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