Café Carnage

Café Carnage is a card game for 4-6* players: you and your friends have chosen to eat out together for five nights in a row, but must vote as to how to pay up each night. Do you share the bill, pay separately for your own meals, or do you cheat your friends and...run? 

Over five rounds, the players will choose a Starter, Main course and Dessert from a menu of cards, considering how much money they have remaining from the initial $30 budget and how much they'd like to eat. Then, as the maître d' arrives with the bill, they must choose to vote to either split the bill evenly, pay just for their own items or attempt to run away without paying ... but if multiple people try to abscond at the same time, then the player(s) who ate the most will be caught by the restaurant's security guards and will have to pay a penalty. Oops!

At the end of end of the fifth round, whoever has managed to eat the most food over the course of the game (without running out of money or taking an "IOU" token) will have won the game!

Café Carnage was originally created in the space of 48 hours as part of the Global Game Jam 2015 and Southampton Game Jam [#SotonGameJam]. This 2023 ‘remastered’ version features new graphics, minor tweaks to gameplay, and a revamped rulebook.

If you would like to try out a digital version, the game is downloadable as a (free) Steam Workshop item for Tabletop Simulator which can be found here: 

• Café Carnage [TTS mod] - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3055828785

If you enjoy the game (or have feedback or ideas towards how to make it better), then please consider providing feedback using the form here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Eao9Ey2e924aAPye4j1QUX8IUG5ip7_BuMkrew1uV10. Thanks!

* Café Carnage is perfectly playable with 5-6 players, but has not (yet) been rigorously playtested - if you have feedback, please let us know!