Rough Justice: '84 cover art

Rough Justice: '84

A dice-and-cards agency sim testing risk management against rolled outcomes.

Here's the argument for where this game sits - disagree freely.
Match your experience?
EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE6 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10

the cheat-test profile

The four axes - the argument

Each axis is rated on its own - how far one cheat would trivialize the game here. They don't trade off; low on all four means the game is an experience, not a contest.

  1. Execution

    cheat: Aimbot - perfect inputs

    1/10

    Board-game clicks with no time pressure

  2. Reads

    cheat: Out-predict an adaptive opponent

    0/10

    Cases resolve by dice, not an adapting opponent

  3. Variance

    cheat: See what's hidden / map the RNG

    6/10

    Dice rolls and card draws sway every case outcome

  4. Optimization

    cheat: A perfect solver / coach

    7/10

    Agent assignment and risk management against odds is the game

How to read this

Each axis is named by the cheat that would break the game along it. Execution is the hands. Reads is out-thinking an adaptive opponent. Variance is hidden information & RNG. Optimization is the solvable systems layer. A game's region is the top one or two axes.

These four aren't one rating split four ways - they're independent 0-10 questions. A 9 on one axis takes nothing from the others, and a game low on all four isn't missing data: it's telling you there's no skill here to cheat.

The basis is how the majority actually plays this game - not a niche mode or a personal run. For a game with very different modes (a story campaign versus ranked multiplayer), that's the version most people mean.

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Game details

Released
2023
Developer
Gamma Minus
Platforms
Series X|S, PS4, PC, PS5, XONE, Switch
Modes
Single player
IGDB users
85/100
PuzzleSimulatorStrategyAdventureIndieCard & Board GameMystery