That's Crypto Bro!
- Board's Eye View
- Jun 12
- 2 min read
Designed by Alfie Dix, with art by Calum Marrows, That’s Crypto Bro! is a light hand management card game from Bubblegum Stuff where the 2-6 players are collecting crypto currency cards and manipulating the market to increase the value of their cards at the expense of others.
There’s a board accommodating the game’s five crypto currencies, with each currency’s relative position determining its value, from -2 to +3. The crypto currency coins tho’ are all face down; it’s only ever the coin in the middle position that is face up; so That’s Crypto Bro! is also a memory game…
The game is played with a deck of 70 cards comprising the various crypto currencies and action cards. Gameplay is simple. On your turn you pick up two cards and you either play an action card or pass. The action cards include several that let you manipulate the market – swapping the position of coins – so obviously you’ll want to push coins you’ve collected to the right of the board where they’ll be worth more and push down the value of coins you don’t hold. There are also action cards that let you take coin cards from another player.
In addition to the memory and set collection elements, players will be trying to make deductions about which currencies are held by their opponents and in what quantities. And there’s a strong push-your-luck dimension too because a player can immediately halt the game and move to scoring at the start of any turn when they have three matching crypto coins in their hand. If, for example, you’ve got three Squirrel Stash cards in your hand and that crypto coin is in the top spot on the board, you may want to immediately end the game, but not if you think one or more of the other players might have a higher total score… But of course if you keep going, there’s every likelihood that your favoured crypto currency won’t be riding so high next time around…
There’s inevitably a high luck factor in That’s Crypto Bro but it’s a fun party game that plays in a brisk 10-15 minutes, so it’s never going to outstay its welcome. And at least you’re not risking real money.
