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Factsheet

Short description

A horse-racing party card game for 2-4 players online. Draw two cards, pick one, and advance a horse—possibly your rival's. Sabotage friends, push your luck with the whip, and compete for the trophy. Elegant porcelain horses. Questionable table manners.

Long description

Impeccable horses. Questionable company.

Suits & Stallions is a horse-racing party card game for 2-4 players online. Take your seat, and your suit, at a distinguished walnut table. The horses are polished porcelain. The trophy is gold. Everyone seems terribly well behaved.

Until the first act of sabotage.

Draw two. Pick one. Quickly.

In Standard mode, draw two cards and choose one within ten seconds. The horse matching your chosen card's suit moves forward—even when it belongs to someone else. Decide who gets ahead, and prepare to explain yourself. Draw two cards of one rival's suit and you'll have to help them. Their horse will at least bow its thanks.

Sabotage your friends. Politely.

Save your once-per-race sabotage for a particularly inconvenient moment. Your target must roll to escape having their next move blocked.

Feeling ambitious? Use a whip. When your horse's card next comes up, the die decides: leap two spaces forward, or stumble one space back. Shake the dice cup with your mouse and throw the ten-sided die. Try to look as though you meant to do that.

Hidden gates. Treacherous jokers.

The first horse to reach a hidden gate reveals its card, sending the horse of that suit back one space. Jokers either advance the chasing pack or push the leader backwards. Being in front is no reason to get comfortable.

Every place scores. One trophy.

In Standard mode, each race ends when two horses finish. Every placing earns points, and the best total after the final race takes the trophy.

Win a race and you'll wear a gold crown for the rest of the match. Come second and it's a pink ribbon, which is nearly as dignified. Earn another and it stacks on top. If everyone presses "One more!", the last match's winner and runner-up start the rematch already wearing theirs.

Prefer a fuller stable? Troika mode gives each player three horses in a single race, with stacking, catching, refilling sabotage and whips, and Jokers you aim yourself.

Not every horse is a horse.

Race as the Porcelain Horse, the Moai, The Thinker or the Toy Soldier, each glossy in your suit's colour and with its own taunt, cheer and bow. Horseshoes earned by playing unlock new characters in the shop, where nothing costs money. Characters change your look, never the rules. The Toy Soldier joins only when you complete all 29 Steam achievements, some of which need other people at the table.

A seat at the table

• 2-4 players online. Invite friends, use quick join, or browse Steam rooms. LAN and direct-IP rooms are also supported.
• Keep the seats filled. Computer-controlled players can fill empty seats, and spectators can join to watch.
• Set the table your way. Custom rooms start from Standard or Troika rules and let the host change the details, such as the number of races or whether the Jokers are in the deck. They earn no Horseshoes or achievements.
• Discuss your excellent decisions. Built-in voice chat in Steam rooms, with push-to-talk or automatic mode and individual mute and volume controls. Text chat is also available.
• Let your horse do the talking. Taunt, cheer, bow in apology, or launch a burst of fireworks in your suit's colour, during a race or while you wait in the room. The face stays solemn. The rest of the horse does not.
• Learn at the table. A first-match guide for each mode highlights what to do as you play.
• Everyone gets a title. After every match, Today's Highlights hands out titles such as Master Saboteur, Escape Artist and Pacifist.

The winner gets a moment in the spotlight. Do try to look gracious.

Features

• Party card game for 2–4 players online; spectators welcome.
• Steam rooms with invites, quick join and a room browser; LAN and direct-IP rooms too.
• Computer players can fill empty seats.
• Draw two, pick one: any suit's horse can move, including your rival's.
• Sabotage, whips, hidden gate cards and Jokers.
• Throw the ten-sided die yourself by shaking a dice cup with the mouse.
• Standard mode: every placing scores; a race win earns a gold crown, second place a pink ribbon.
• Troika mode: three horses each in a single race, with stacking and catching.
• Custom rooms: start from either mode and change the details.
• Four characters: the Porcelain Horse, the Moai, The Thinker and the Toy Soldier. Earn the others by playing; nothing costs money.
• 29 Steam achievements.
• Emotes (taunt, cheer, apologize, fireworks), text chat and Steam voice chat.
• Today's Highlights titles after every match, and a first-match guide for each mode.

About the game

Suits & Stallions is the work of a small indie developer. It puts a card-table party game on a walnut board, raced by glossy porcelain statues in the four card suits: horses, mostly, and a few guests who are not horses at all. The statues take everything very seriously, including being overtaken by a friend's well-timed sabotage.

The cup gag

While you shake the dice cup to roll, you can sweep it into the other horses and knock them flat. They pop back into place before anything moves. It changes nothing. It is very satisfying. (See gifs/SS_cup_gag_720p.mp4.)

Trailer

Watch on YouTube: youtu.be/OkZOx8Q-Meo

Clips

Screenshots

Key art

Logos and icon

Files in this kit

The ZIP downloads above contain every image and clip below, each with press_kit.md.

images/ (screenshots 1920×1080, English UI)

• ss_01_lineup_crowns_ribbons.png: race 3's line-up: the Toy Soldier with two ribbons, The Thinker, the Moai with two crowns and the Porcelain Horse.
• ss_02_draw_two_pick_one.png: drawing two and picking one.
• ss_03_sabotage_arrow.png: dragging the sabotage onto a rival.
• ss_04_whip_leap.png: a whip roll of 8: "LEAP!".
• ss_05_troika_stack.png: Troika mode: three Moai in one stack.
• ss_06_fireworks.png: fireworks emotes in suit colours.
• ss_07_final_highlights.png: final scores and Today's Highlights.
• ss_08_blocked.png: an escape roll of 3: "BLOCKED!".
• ss_09_winner_spotlight.png: the race winner's spotlight.
• ss_10_troika_choose.png: Troika mode: choosing which horse moves.

images/ (key art and logos)

• concept_A_hero_master_v001.png, concept_A_main_master_v001.png, concept_A_tall_master_v002.png: key art masters.
• main_capsule_1232x706.png: Steam main capsule.
• library_hero_3840x1240.png: Steam library hero.
• logo_ivory_stack_master_v001.png, logo_ivory_tight_master_v001.png, logo_ivory_wide_master_v001.png, library_logo_ivory_tight_1280x529_v001.png, library_logo_ivory_wide_1280x147_v001.png: ivory logo, transparent PNG.
• Icon1_Medallion_v003_1024_transparent.png: game icon, 1024×1024, transparent.

gifs/ (looping clips, MP4 H.264, 1280×720, no audio)

• SS_crown_ribbon_720p.mp4 (3 s): a crown for the Moai, a ribbon for the Toy Soldier.
• SS_troika_stack_720p.mp4 (3 s): Troika: a third horse rides onto the stack.
• SS_whip_leap_720p.mp4 (2 s): a whip's leap: two spaces at once.
• SS_dice_escape_720p.mp4 (3.5 s): the cup, the ten-sided die and "ESCAPED!".
• SS_cup_gag_720p.mp4 (4.5 s): the dice-cup gag.
• SS_fireworks_720p.mp4 (3.4 s): all four players' fireworks.
• SS_taunt_emote_720p.mp4 (2 s): a taunt emote close-up.
• posters/: one still frame per clip, used by the web page.

Trailer

• Launch trailer (1:05) on YouTube. Need the original file? Email press@rkstudiogames.com.