HOW TO PLAY
1) Starting Phase
2-4 players take turns playing loot
cards and using items to kill monsters
in order to gain more items, loot, and
sometimes souls. The first player to
gain 4 souls is the winner. Cooperation,
bartering, and betrayal are all strongly
encouraged.
3) Action Phase
starting the game
Shuffle the loot, monster, and
treasure decks. Put out 100¢.
Place 2 monster cards face up next
to the monst er deck. These are the
current active mon sters, and each
occupies an active monster slot. Place
any non-monster cards revealed during
set up on the bottom of the monster
deck.
Place 2 treasure cards face up next to
the treasure deck. These are the current
4) Ending Phase
shop items.
Shuffle the character deck and deal out
one character card and their starting
item to all players.
All players start with their character
card deactivated (turned sideways).
Everyone starts with their starting
item recharged (turned upright). If you
aren’t going first, you can activate your
starting item before your first turn.
All players start with 3 loot cards and 3¢
from the supply of ¢.
Cain plays first. If Cain is not in play,
then the saddest person plays first.
Player turn
Loot Cards
1. Recharge all your active items and
your character card.
2. Start of turn effects trigger (are
put onto the stack), then players can
respond. This is the first opportunity
to play effects during a turn.
3. Loot 1. (Draw 1 from the loot deck.)
During their Action Phase, the
active player may do any or all of
the following in any order:
• Play 1 loot card. (This can be in
response to any action.)
• Purchase 1 shop item or the
topmost card of the treasure deck
for 10¢, then replace any shop item
purchased with the top card of the
treasure deck.
• Attack an active monster or the
topmost card of the monster deck.
• Activate their character card to play
an additional loot card. (Character
card activation can be reserved for
activation on other players’ turns in
response to any action.)
1. End of turn effects trigger, then
players can respond. This is the last
opportunity to play effects during a
turn. (If an effect ends the current turn,
the turn jumps to this step.)
2. Heal all players and monsters, then
effects that last until end of turn wear
off.
3. If you have more than 10 loot cards
in hand, discard down to 10.
4. Pass the turn to the player to your
left.
Cards
Loot cards are drawn
and kept in your hand.
Playing them can
instantly change the
flow of the game in
many interesting ways.
There are three different kinds of loot
cards:
Basic Loot - Basic loot cards come
in the form of coins, bombs, hearts,
pills and the like, and are used to gain
resources or aid in combat.
Tarot cards - Tarot cards are more
advanced loot cards that can drastically
change the course of the game.
Trinkets - These are rare loot cards.
Once played, these act like treasure
items and have passive effects. Place
these cards face up on the table next
to your item cards. They count as items
when in play, and they stay in play until
destroyed.
Monster Cards
The monster deck is
the meat and potatoes
of the game. It’s filled
with basic monsters,
bosses, curses and
other surprises.
Basic Monsters - Monsters that are
easier to kill and yield loot, coins and
on rare occasions, treasures.
Bosses - Difficult-to-kill monsters with
bigger rewards that always yield souls
when killed. When a boss is killed, it
becomes a soul card and the active
player gains it. This is how you keep
track of souls.
Bonus Cards - Uncommon cards that
may reward or kill the active player.
Curses - Rare purple cards that curse
a player of the revealer’s choosing. The
cursed player places the curse to the
left of their character card. If they die,
they discard all curses afflicting them.
Treasure Cards
Treasure cards are
items that players can
gain. Place treasure
cards directly into play
in front of the player,
visible to everyone.
They tend to have very strong effects
that modify gameplay and interact with
other players and monsters. When an
effect says 'Gain Treasure,' it is taken
from the top of the treasure deck.
Active Items - These items
can be activated (turned
sideways to use) at any time
during your turn or in response to any
action. Once an item has been activated,
it can't be activated again until it’s
recharged at the start of its owner's
turn or by a recharge effect. Active
items have a gold border and a turning
arrow symbol.
Paid Items - These items
can be used when you pay a
specific cost. Like active items,
you can use paid items in response to
any action, but you can them as many
times as they are paid for. Paid items
aren't turned sideways when you use
them. Paid items have a gold border and
$ symbol.
Passive Items - These items give
players special abilities that usually
change the rules of the game or modify
existing effects with triggered abilities.
These abilities don't require activation.
Passive items have silver borders.
 Dice Rolls
When a player rolls a dice initially, the
roll goes onto the stack (see Stacking
Effects). There are many ways to modify
the roll before it resolves (effects the
game) and either triggers effects or
deals damage. Apply modifiers in the
following way:
1. Effects that force rerolls or modify
the roll result can be played.
2. Apply +X/-X to dice roll(s) effects.
3. Sacred Heart, Dad’s Lost Coin, and
The Missing Page trigger here. (If any
rerolls or roll replacements resolve
during this step, whether from the
above cards or played effects, go back
to Step 1.)
4. The roll resolves. If this was an
attacking roll, damage from the hit or
miss is put onto the stack, then other
cards in play with dice roll triggers
trigger before damage resolves.
Rolls and a monster's dice number can’t
go above 6 or below 1.
Your 'first roll' for the turn or combat
is until a roll resolves or fizzles (see
Fizzling).
Monster Card Breakdown
Dice number
Dice roll
needed to hit
Attack
Damage
Health this deals if
attacker miss
Reward Soul(s)
for killing gained for
killing
Combat
Players may attack once a turn during
their action phase. A single attack may
have many dice rolls involved.
If a player decides to attack, they
must declare what they are attacking to
all players. Players can attack either one
of the active monsters, or the topmost
card of the monster deck. Once a player
declares the target of their attack,
combat starts. Combat ends normally
when either the player or monster dies.
If a player attacks the topmost card
of the monster deck, they reveal the
card to all players.
If it is a monster card, place it face
up over one of the active monsters;
the active players chooses where to
put it. The topmost monster card
in an active monster slot is always
the active monster in that slot. Only
active monster effects can trigger.
If it is a non-monster card, the active
player reads it to all players and
follows the directions on the card.
This counts as that player's attack for
the turn.
When a player attacks a monster card,
they roll a D6.
If the roll resolves to a number equal
to or greater than the monster’s dice
number, the player deals damage
equal to their attack to that monster.
Use a dice to keep track of damage
done to monsters during the turn.
If the roll resolves to a number less
than the monster’s dice number, they
miss and take damage equal to the
monster’s attack.
The attacking player continues rolling
until either they or the monster is
killed.
Whenever a monster is killed (not
necessarily in combat):
1. If the monster has an on-death
trigger, put it onto the stack.
2. The active player always gains
rewards for its death, including the
monster soul if it is a boss. Always!
3. If the monster didn’t turn into a
soul card for the active player, it is
placed face up on top of the monster
deck discard pile.
Whenever a monster slot is empty:
If an active monster slot is empty, the
active player reveals the top card of
the monster deck to place a monster
card in it. If the revealed card is a
non-monster card, the active player
follows the directions on the card,
repeating this process until a new
monster card is put into the slot.
This can happen outside of combat
whenever a slot empties. Remember,
the active player always gets all
penalties and rewards from revealing
monster deck cards.
It is possible to kill monsters outside of
combat with effects. These actions do
not constitute an attack for the turn.
Death
When a player takes lethal damage or
dies for any reason, that player suffers
“The Death Penalty!” They must:
1. Resolve item effects that say
"before paying penalties..."
2. Destroy a non-eternal item they
control.
3. Discard a loot card and lose 1¢.
4. Deactivate their active items and
character card.
5. End their turn if they are the active
player.
You can only die once per turn, and you
will heal back to full at the next ending
phase. Dying removes you from combat
(see Leaving Combat under Fizzling).
If the active player and a monster die
at the same time, resolve the monster’s
death before the player's death so that
rewards are still given.
Empty active monster slots must be
filled at the end of the turn. This could
happen when the active player dies
while trying to fill a slot. After all end-
of-turn effects are done resolving, but
before players and monsters are healed,
the active player (usually currently
dead) reveals and resolves any non-
monster cards until all empty slots are
full.
Death goes onto the stack. Players can
play effects in response (see Stacking
Effects). Preventing or fizzling death
sets your health to 1 if you were at 0.
Fizzling
Some effects cancel other effects. In
addition, effects can sometimes be
cancelled by the state of the game
changing before they resolve. When the
latter happens, the effect fizzles.
Invalid Targets - Players must
declare targets when playing effects. In
addition, some effects require a certain
condition to resolve. When a target
leaves play or becomes untargetable for
any other reason, or when a condition
is not met when an effect resolves, the
effect fizzles.
Leaving Combat - If an attacking player
is removed from combat for any reason,
any combat roll or combat damage
on the stack fizzles. This can be from
the player or monster dying, an effect
cancelling the attack/combat, or an
effect ending the turn.
 stacking effects
Most events go onto the top of the
stack (the place where effects wait to
resolve). The following are all of the
events that use the stack:
• Playing loot cards
• Activating items
• Using paid items
• Effects triggering
• Intending to buy or attack (This is
the last opportunity to play effects that
change shop items or active monsters.
You are not committed to purchase or
attack until you have declared a target.)
• Declaring a purchase or attack by
announcing a specific target
• Rolling a dice (see Dice Rolls for the
steps which use the stack)
• Damage
• Player death
In addition to these events, there are
two opportunities every turn to play
effects. These are during the starting
and ending phases.
Resolving the stack
When there are no more effects to add
to the stack, the effects on the stack
resolve one at a time in reverse order.
The most recent effect resolves first,
then the 2nd most recent, until all
effects are resolved ending with the
initial effect.
Responding to effects
Players can play effects in response to
whatever effect is currently on top of
the stack (i.e. would resolve next). As
mentioned earlier, some effects can be
cancelled or “fizzled” due to its target
being gone or its condition no longer
being met, perhaps due to an effect that
resolved first. Once the stack is empty,
the active player can make another
action or otherwise progress their turn.
Conceptually, think of each effect as a
physical card, and as effects are played,
you are piling the cards on top of each
other. To find out what happens next,
you take the top card off of the stack of
cards and do what it say until the pile is
empty.
Timing
If multiple effects trigger at the exact
same time, they are put onto the stack
in the following order:
1. Monster effects (If there are
multiple monster effects, the active
player chooses the order.)
2. Other effects (In turn order, starting
with the active player. If multiple
effects are owned by the same player,
that player chooses the order that
they are put onto the stack. Players
determine when their death goes on to
the stack, just like any other effect.)
Examples
Example 1: Player 1 decides to attack
an active Monster that needs a 4 or
higher dice roll to deal damage. Player 1
rolls their dice to see if a hit lands, and
they roll a 3. In response to this roll,
Player 2 offers to raise the roll by 1 with
their Book of Belial in exchange for 2¢.
Player 1 agrees, pays them, and Player
2 activates the Book of Belial to raise
the roll to a 4. Out of nowhere, Player 3
decides to activate their D6 in response,
forcing Player 1 to reroll the dice! No
one else has any response to this, so
each effect now plays out in reverse.
Player 3 rerolls the dice and rolls a 1;
Player 2 adds +1 to that dice making it a
2, then the dice resolves. Seeing as they
needed a 4+ in order to land that attack,
Player 1 misses and the attack fails.
Example 2: Player 1 activates their Book
of Sin item and rolls a 3 to Loot 1. In
response, Player 2 uses their Sleight
of Hand item to look at the top 3 cards
of the loot deck and put them back in
any order. No other effects are played.
Player 2 looks at the top 3 cards,
rearranges them so a single penny card
is placed on the top. Then Player 1’s
Once paid, promises don't have to be
kept. Be warned: if you go back on your
Loot 1 effect resolves, and they draw a promises, it will be hard for others to
single penny… :( trust you.
Souls Credits:
When a player gains a soul, whether
from a boss dying or an item/loot card, Lead Design & Art Direction -
they gain the card as a soul card. It Edmund McMillen
now counts towards the players total Additional Design & Production -
soul count. The first player to have 4 Danielle McMillen
souls wins the game.
Additional Design -
Once players have a Tyler Glaiel
better understanding of
the game’s mechanics, Layout/Background Art & Illustration -
you are encouraged to @TikaraTheMew
add the Bonus Souls
Card Back Design/Box Art & Illustration -
to your games. These @KrystalFlamingo
bonus cards are not
added to any deck, but Figure Design & Illustration -
instead they lay face up next to the @Rojen241
game in view of all the players.
Illustration -
The first player to gain 25¢ or more @Wormchild and @Tar_Head
instantly gains the Soul of Greed. The
Business Development (Studio71) -
first player to have 10 or more loot Javon Frazier and Garima Sharma
cards in their hand instantly gains the
Soul of Gluttony. The first player to Testers -
have 2 or more Guppy items in their Jackson Moore,Tyler Glaiel, Danielle
possession instantly gains the Soul of McMillen, George Fan, Eli Evans, Acacia
Guppy. Evans, Jay Lewis, Graeme Little, Leon
Masters, Dan Zaelit, Cole O’Brien, Doug
These souls, once gained, act like any O’Brien, Crystal Evans, Joe Evans, Alex
other soul card. While there are ways
Austin, Caitlyn Yantis, Peach McMillen.
to get back other souls that have been
discarded, the bonus souls can only
be gained once per game. If these soul
cards are ever discarded, they are
placed face down next to the game.
Bartering
Players are encouraged to trade
for favors or nefarious acts. When
bartering, a player can pay another
player any amount of ¢ for practically
any favor. Player's can't trade items or Rule Rewrite by Jon Paull (@jonzo11)
loot in this fashion. Both players must Editing by Iris Bull (@ibull)
agree to the exchange of ¢. Players can't Version 1.0
give ¢ away for no reason. Bartering
They own nothing here.
does not use the stack.
 Glossary
Active Player - The player whose turn
it is.
¢ - There are only 100¢ available. When
it runs out, players need to spend or
lose ¢ to increase the supply.
Counters - Counters are markers you
place on specific cards that ask for
them. They can be represented by
anything you'd like (stone, dice, coin,
booger). If a card with counters is
stolen, the counters stay on it.
Damage Prevention - Damage
prevention is used to cancel incoming
damage to a target. If not used
immediately, the prevention stays until
the end of the turn.
Deactive - Items turned sideways are
considered deactivated, and can't be
activated until recharged.
Destroy - When a card is destroyed, it is
placed in the appropriate discard pile.
Destroying a monster counts as killing
it.
Discard - Send to the appropriate
discard pile. After a loot card is played,
it is discarded. Discarding monsters
yields no rewards. When a shop item
or active monster is discarded, replace
them if their slot becomes empty.
Expand - Effects can expand the shop or
the number of active monsters. Fill the
new slots from the top of the correct
deck.
Loot X - Draw X cards from the loot
deck.
Play - Items owned by players and items
in the shop are considered 'in play.'
Steal/swap - Unless an effect says
otherwise, the stealing/swapping player
chooses what to steal/swap.
Card Rulings
Character Cards
The Lost - The soul attached to The
Lost cannot be discard, stolen, or lost in
any way.
Eden - Cards with "destroy this" don't
function with Eden because they gain
eternal. Glass Cannon, for example, is
overpowered as an item for Eden, as it
can be used and never destroyed.
Loot Cards
Butter Bean! - When you cancel a
loot card on the stack, the loot card is
discarded first, then Butter Bean. Butter
Bean can cancel Lost Soul and trinkets
while they are on the stack, because
they are not items/soul cards (i.e., still
loot cards) until they resolve.
Counterfeit Penny - This doesn't
trigger when stealing ¢. The effect is not
an additional instance of gaining ¢.
O. The Fool - You can play this with
your death on the stack to live. The
death effect fizzles, you still move to
the ending phase, but you are left with
your original hit points (or 1 if it was
lethal damage that killed you).
VIII. Justice - You gain loot and ¢
equal to the difference between what
you have and the target has. Imagine
that you have 2 cards and 3¢, and your
opponent has 5 cards and 1¢. You play
Justice and loot 3 cards (up to 5) but
gain 0¢ (you had more).
Monster Cards
Ambush - You don't need to make the
attacks right away.
Cursed and Holy monsters - Effects on
these monsters can trigger outside of
combat. Most other monsters with dice
roll triggers only trigger when you are
attacking them.
Daddy Haunt - The effect adds 1 to
the total damage you take. It isn't an
additional instance of damage.
Devil Deal - For the third option,
you can't use the item before taking 2
Lazarus' Rags - Functionally, this will
trigger at Step 1 of the ending phase,
damage. at the same time end-of-turn effects
trigger.
Dinga - If you kill on a 6, roll once and
double for the total ¢ gained. Mom's Shovel - Won't recharge until it
is under a player's control during their
Greed! - The richest player is chosen recharge step.
when Greed! resolves.
Monster Manual - You can force an
The Haunt - The effect triggers for attack against the top of the monster
every 2 points of cumulative damage it deck. You can force an additional attack.
takes in a turn. The damage does not You can force attacks outside of the
have to be dealt in a single instance. action phase. This will fizzle if used
against a player in combat. This will
"Healers" (Boil, Chub, Mega Fatty,
Holy Dinga) - Players and monsters fizzle if the active monster targeted is
cannot heal above their current max discarded before this resolves.
health.
Ouija Board - The active player
Ragman - Ragman's effect can undo resolves the non-monster card played.
getting the soul, potentially keeping a
Remote Detonator - Vote in turn order
player from winning. starting with the active player.
Treasure Cards Sacred Heart/Dad's Lost Coin/
9 Volt - You can use recharged items The Missing Page - These effects
before the next turn. (When the stack is trigger at Step 3 of dice rolling. They
empty, you can still add effects before the can be fizzled if the roll is modified
active player progresses the turn.) to a number that doesn't meet their
condition when their effect resolves.
Blank Card - Multiple activations of
this do not further multiply an effect. Shadow - If there are more than
If the effect doubled requires a roll, one, they trigger in turn order, then
just roll once and double the effect. whichever resolves last gets to choose/
Can't duplicate trinkets or Lost Soul. receive stuff.
In general, this doubles any countable
quality of an effect. For specifics, see
the Appendix.
Diplopia/Modeling Clay - Copying
Dead Cat sets the counters on these to
9 every time. Copying other cards with
counters does not copy the counters.
Counters stay on these after they stop
copying a card. If you copy any other
card that uses counters, the preexisting
counters remain and can be used.
Crystal Ball - You can respond to the
intent to roll with Crystal Ball.
Glass Cannon - If you put more than
one activation on the stack, the first
effect that destroys it fizzles the rest.
 Errata
Flush - Put all shop items not being
purchased on the bottom...
Broken Ankh - Each time you would
die, roll...
Dad's Lost Coin - When anyone would
roll a 1, you may force that player to
reroll it.
The Dead Cat - Each time you would
take damage...
Guppy's Collar - Each time you would
die, roll...
Guppy's Hairball - Each time you
would take damage, roll...
The Missing Page - When anyone
would roll a 5, you may force that
player to reroll it.
Sacred Heart - Each time you would
roll a 1, you may turn it into a 6.
Void - Discard an active monster that
is not being attacked or a shop item not
being purchased.
We Need To Go Deeper - ...back on top
of the monster deck in any order.
Appendix
Blank Card
Multiple activations of Blank Card do
not further multiply an effect. Blank
Card cannot duplicate trinkets or Lost
Soul. In general, this card doubles any
countable quality of an effect. See below
for specific interactions. The doubled
effect is listed.
Basic Loot
2 Cents! - Gain 4¢.
3 Cents! - Gain 6¢.
4 Cents! - Gain 8¢.
A Dime!! - Gain 20¢.
A nickel! - Gain 10¢.
A Penny! - Gain 2¢.
A Sack - Loot 6. Pills! (purple) - Roll:
1-2: Recharge all of your items.
XI. Strength - A player gains +2 attack
till the end of turn and may attack two
Blank Rune - Roll: 3-4: +2 to your dice rolls till the end additional times.
1: Everyone gains 2¢. of turn.
2: Everyone loots 4. XII. The Hanged Man - Look at the top
5-6: -4 to your dice rolls till the end
3: Everyone takes 6 damage. card of all decks. You may put those
of turn.
4: Everyone gains 8¢. cards on the bottom of their decks, then
5: Everyone loots 10. Soul Heart - Prevent 2 damage to any loot 4.
6: Everyone gains 12¢. player.
XIII. Death - Doubling has no effect.
Bomb! - Deal 2 damage to a monster or Two of Diamonds - Quadruple the
player. XIV. The Tower - Roll:
number of cents a player has.
1-2: All players take 2 damage.
Butter Bean! - Doubling has no effect. 3-4: All monsters take 2 damage.
5-6: All players take 4 damage.
Charged Penny - Gain 2¢, then recharge Tarot Cards (By NUmeral)
an item. XV. The Devil - Doubling has no effect.
O. The Fool - Doubling has no effect.
Credit Card - Doubling has no effect. XVI. Temperance - Choose one:
I. The Magician - Doubling has no
Dagaz - Choose one: Take 2 damage: gain 8¢.
effect.
Destroy a Curse. Take 4 damage: gain 16¢.
Prevent 2 damage to any player. II. The High Priestess - Choose a
XVII. The Stars - Gain +2 treasure.
player or monster, then roll:
Dice Shard - Doubling has no effect. Deal damage to that target equal to 2 XVIII. The Moon - Look at the top
Ehwaz - Doubling has no effect. times the number rolled. 10 cards of the loot deck. Put 8 on the
bottom of the deck and 2 back on top in
Gold Bomb!! - Deal 6 damage to a III. The Empress - A player gains +2 any order.
monster or player. attack and +2 to all dice rolls till the end
of turn. XIX. The Sun - If it is your turn, gain
Holy Card - Doubling has no effect. two additional turns after this one. Put
IV. The Emperor - Look at the top 10 this card on the bottom of the loot deck.
Lil Battery - Doubling has no effect. cards of the monster deck. Put 8 on the
bottom of the deck and 2 back on top in XX. Judgement - Choose the player
Jera - Loot 2 times X, where X is equal
any order. with the most souls or tied for the most
to the number of loot cards in your
hand. V. The Hierophant - Prevent up to 4
damage dealt to a player or monster.
souls. That player discards two soul
cards they control.
Joker - Loot at a player's hand, you
XXI. The World - Look at all player's
may steal two loot cards from it. VI. The Lovers - A player gains +4
hands, then loot 4.
health till the end of turn.
Mega Battery - Doubling has no effect.
VII. The Chariot - A player gains +2
Pills! (blue) - Roll:
attack and +2 health till the end of turn.
1-2: Loot 2.
3-4: Loot 6. VIII. Justice - Doubling has no effect.
5-6: Discard 2 loot.
IX. The Hermit - Look at the top 10
Pills! (red) - Roll: cards of the treasure deck. Put 8 on the
1-2: +2 attack till the end of turn. bottom of the deck and 2 back on top in
3-4: +2 health till the end of turn. any order.
5-6: Take 2 damage.
X. Wheel of Fortune - Roll:
Pills! (yellow) - Roll: 1: Gain 2¢.
1-2: Gain 8¢. 2: Take 4 damage.
3-4: Gain 14¢. 3: Loot 6.
5-6: Lose 8¢. 4: Lose 8¢.
5: Gain 10¢.
6: Gain +2 treasure.