Last Ante

Eight goddesses. One last wager.

When the goddesses went to war, the eight realms burned. The Arbiter of Bounds ended it with a covenant: what is taken by force is void; what is won at the table stands.
An age later, the law has turned cruel. One by one it has sealed the goddesses away, each inside a single hour that never ends. No god may sit at a goddess's table — so you lay your godhood down. Your wings become sixteen feathers, and every one of them is your stake.

Each sealed in her own realm; each waiting at her own table.

Blackjack, sharpened

• Hit, stand, double — then bend the hand with Oath cards: glimpse her hidden card, rewind a bust, overrule her verdict.
  
• Every goddess plays her own divine cards. Seraphiel, Angel of Judgment, hangs a blade of light over your cards, veils her hand in holy light and chains your Stand button in gold.
  
• Four suits, four elements: wing, sun, moon and flame. Match suits for Resonance, win in a row to build Momentum, and answer her Deathblow with a Godbreaker.
  
• Squeeze the card that decides everything — lift it slowly, corner first.
  
• Down to your last feathers? Push them all onto a single hand: the Last Ante.

Every card, sealed

Every card carries eight seal marks, one for each realm, and a lock engraved with its blackjack value. The court cards are the suit goddesses themselves; on the Ace, the lock hangs open. The Ace is the key.

Her Decrees. Your Oaths.

Seraphiel's Decree cards on the left, your Oath cards on the right:

• Veil of Light: holy light falls over her face-up card, and neither of her cards can be seen.
  
• Condemnation: a blade of light hangs over your cards. Bust, and you lose twice the feathers.
  
• Shackles: golden chains bind your Stand button. You must hit at least once.
  
• Glimpse: turn over one of her face-down cards.
  
• Rewind: take back the last card you drew, even the one that busted you.
  
• Overrule: cancel her Decree for this hand.

Four suits. Four elements.

Line up one suit and the cards resonate. Wing reads her hidden card, sun breaks extra stars, moon spares your feathers, flame stokes your Momentum. Make twenty-one in a single suit, and the whole table floods with its element.

Godbreaker

Break a seal and the screen shatters: Godbreaker. She strikes back the same way. Let her deal the killing hand, and Seraphiel hands down her Final Sentence.

Four seals. Five stages.

Her seals are woven into what she wears. Break a seal and a layer falls away — five stages, from full divine regalia to the moment the last chain falls.

She cannot throw a hand; the covenant is watching. She has to play to beat you, even if part of her hopes you win.
Lose, and the trial is heard again: she restores one layer, and you resume from the previous seal.

Every frozen hour moves again

A dusk that never finishes falling. A noon that never ends. A mist that never lifts, a city where the rain never stops. Win, and her hour moves again — the dusk falls, the sun sets, the rain stops.
After each liberation she makes you an invitation: stay, or not tonight. Either way the story goes on, toward the final table, where one hand remains — the Last Ante.

The demo

The free demo is the whole first chapter: the prologue, Seraphiel's trial in Heaven, her liberation and what follows. Like the full game, it contains nudity.

Before you play

• Interface and subtitles in English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Russian and Korean.
  
• The goddesses' lines in story scenes are voiced in Japanese; narration and battles are not voiced.
  
• Three difficulty settings: Easy, Normal and Hard. You can switch to Easy at any retrial.
  
• No in-game purchases.
  
• Mouse and keyboard. Single-player and offline.
  
• For adults only. Contains nudity and sexual themes. All characters are fictional adults.