Insurance Fraud is now available on Steam with full Linux support.

The game reimagines blackjack as a roguelike deckbuilder: your bankroll doubles as health bar, shop budget and progress tracker, and beyond the plain card total, hand shapes like pairs, straights, flushes and full houses each carry their own multiplier and stack on top of each other. Five dealers, seven decks and six difficulty “ascensions” await, plus oddball cards such as the Rainbow Nine or the Void Card.

The name is not a particularly happy choice, though: the game has nothing to do with actual insurance fraud - there are no wagers, no real money and no prizes. The developers even dedicate a section of the store page to it, stating plainly: “The insurance is fictional. So is the fraud.”

The price is €5.19, currently 10% off at €4.67 for the launch.

Your bankroll is your health bar. It is also your score, your shop budget and your progress bar. Spend it on upgrades and you sit down weaker. Hold onto it and you never make the number. Five dealers, one pile of money, and nowhere else to get more.

Hit, stand, double down. You know the game. But you do not know this game. A twenty-one is a twenty-one. A twenty-one made of the six, seven and eight of hearts is a straight flush, and that is not just money, that is your rent.

Pairs, straights, flushes, four of a kind, full houses […] each pays a multiplier of its own. They all stack, and the upgrades you buy decide which family pays double.

Seven Decks. Six Ascensions. Five named bosses. Ten different house rules. A seed system to share overpowered runs. Controller support. An authentic retro-aesthetic - buying the game gives you copies that run on computers from the 90s.

Source: Steam