Who Killed Mr. E rear card: the title in white hand-lettering over a dark red question mark, the name struck through in red.

Our first game · In development

Who Killed Mr. E

“Unfortunately, not only a game.”

A card game of protest and social criticism for up to 5 players, where bluffing, politics and hidden agendas expose how difficult it is to challenge the powerful.

Coming to Kickstarter 157 cards 2 factions Up to 5 players

The story

Mr. E is dead. Everyone at the table has a reason to want the question answered, and a reason to want it buried.

The game takes its cue from the dynamics of power and impunity exposed by the Epstein case in the United States. Mr. E is nobody in particular — the point is the machinery around him, not the man.

How it plays

Two factions with conflicting agendas compete to control the narrative. Each round, players spend action cards to advance their position and take control of Homelands — the key territories on the table.

The first faction to reach the target score before the game ends wins. Getting there means deciding who to believe, who to expose, and what you are willing to let happen to stay ahead.

The cards

Five archetypes.

Every card belongs to one of five roles. Between them they cover everyone a scandal needs in order to survive.

The Detective card “Interrogation”: two figures facing each other across a table in an interrogation room.
Detective The ones asking the questions nobody at the table wants asked out loud.
The Villain card “Vault”: a wall of open safes and drawers, one of them marked Top Secret.
Villain Everything to lose if the truth ever lands, and every resource with which to stop it.
The Media card “TV News”: a newsreader at a Breaking News desk.
Media Decides what becomes a story, what becomes a rumour, and what quietly becomes nothing.
The Politician card “Censorship”: hands striking through lines on an evaluation report.
Politician Power that survives by never quite being in the room when it happened.
The Victim card “Shelter”: a child sitting alone on a rug in a bare room.
Victim The people the other four archetypes spend the game negotiating over.

Artwork

Painted, not generated.

Every illustration is an original painting by Carles Azcón — a sharp visual language of tension, decay and political unease.

Content note. Who Killed Mr. E deals with abuse of power, institutional complicity and political violence, and the artwork is deliberately confrontational. It is a game written for adults.

Silence, a hand-painted illustration by Carles Azcón.
Silence “Better to keep silent. Do not publish this one.”
Desecration, a hand-painted illustration by Carles Azcón.
Desecration “Hurry up! These bodies must disappear.”
Paradise Island, a hand-painted illustration by Carles Azcón.
Paradise Island “Here they won't find us... We are safe.”
Cuba, a hand-painted illustration by Carles Azcón.
Cuba “Let's take Cuba! Our people will love it.”
Kidnapping, a hand-painted illustration by Carles Azcón.
Kidnapping “Special operation is underway.”
Impersonate, a hand-painted illustration by Carles Azcón.
Impersonate “It is time to trick and catch them ...”

Coming to Kickstarter.

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