What if Magic: The Gathering were way nastier? That’s too clean a pitch for Personal Vendetta, the auteur project from designer-illustrator-publisher Nick Meccia, but it communicates the gist. It’s a rare game that sports such congruity between gameplay, artwork, and internal motifs; everything about Personal Vendetta both unsettles and services its central notion that to annihilate your clones, you must also annihilate a portion of yourself.

Be warned, this one isn’t for the faint of heart or stomach. One of my oldest friends got woozy just drawing from the deck.

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