Crooked bets everything on rock, paper and scissors gone rotten
A noir roguelite that turns the playground game into a con, with a suspicion meter watching every dirty trick.
By Rhodri Vaughan, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
Rock, paper, scissors is the sort of game you learn before you learn to read, which makes it a strange choice to build a con artist's roguelite around, and that is exactly why Crooked has my attention. The screenshots put you at a round table under a single hanging bulb, playing the three gestures against a cast of painted faces who look like they have never won a hand honestly in their lives. One shot shows a round labelled Scissors versus Paper with a suspicion bar sitting at zero along the top, the sort of number you know is not staying at zero for long. Another has the words "Their hand...