OPERATIVES: Revolve - Cards You Can Almost Touch
OPERATIVES: Revolve pitches itself as a deckbuilder with tactile stakes. Every card in your hand does double duty: it blocks bullets, blades and death, and it strikes back. Once you use a card it is discarded, but unlike most card games these cards can also be damaged and destroyed mid-run, creating a constant pressure on how you deploy your limited resources.
The setting is lean and cinematic. You play as Operatives, secret agents enforcing an ideology called the Machine Doctrine. Humanity did not invent the technology in this world; the Doctrine delivered it in a distant past and civilization grew around those gifts. That premise is mostly backdrop, but it gives the game a distinct flavor for missions and storytelling as you hunt resistors and pry into the world's mechanized mysteries.
