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Gate Ajar
Gate Ajar is a hidden-role card game played in the browser
A hidden-role party card game for the browser. Two secret factions, tarot cards and incomplete information. Find your allies before the gate opens. Play with friends or bots.
Gate Ajar is a hidden-role multiplayer card game played in the browser, inspired by Roger Zelazny’s A Night in the Lonesome October.
I’ve read the book many times, often with friends the way it’s meant to be read: one chapter a day, all through October. I always thought it would make a great gamebook, since the novel’s structure practically invites it. This October, a few chapters in, I noticed how well the items the characters gather map onto the tarot. The four suits of the minor arcana echo the tools of the Game, and the major arcana became the modifiers. So instead of a gamebook, it became a card game.
How it plays
When Halloween falls on a full moon, the gate to the old gods can be opened. Players are secretly split into two factions: the Openers and the Closers. All through October you gather cards to throw into the bonfire on Halloween night, and the faction with more points decides the fate of the gate. Nobody knows who their allies are. You watch what others take from the market, and they watch you.
What’s in the game now
Games for 6 to 12 players, with bots filling empty seats
Hidden or open factions, public or private games with invite links
Draw from the deck in secret or from the open market in plain sight, or rest to recover energy
Full rules and a gallery of all 78 cards with their effects
Detailed end-of-game statistics, including each player’s contribution to their faction
What’s coming
Accounts and game history
Trading cards between players
Special roles
Items
This is an early, deliberately simple version with a lot of room to grow. I’m open to any comments and suggestions, so please leave feedback below. And if you’re a fellow Lonesome October reader, I’d especially love to hear from you.
About Gate Ajar on Product Hunt
“Gate Ajar is a hidden-role card game played in the browser”
Gate Ajar was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #115 on the daily leaderboard. A hidden-role party card game for the browser. Two secret factions, tarot cards and incomplete information. Find your allies before the gate opens. Play with friends or bots.
On the analytics side, Gate Ajar competes within Card Games, Free Games and Games — topics that collectively have 111.6k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Gate Ajar performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Gate Ajar?
Gate Ajar was hunted by Dimitar Stefanov. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Gate Ajar including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Dimitar Stefanov