Doomtown

Doomtown is an expandable card game set in the Weird West of the Deadlands role-playing game, in which players take the roles of rival factions competing for control of the fictional town of Gomorra. First released in 1998 as Deadlands: Doomtown, it began life as a collectible card game published under license from Wizards of the Coast before Pinnacle Entertainment Group and Alderac Entertainment Group carried the line through its final expansion in 2001. The game combines a poker based dueling system, where cards drawn from a player's deck double as both resources and cards in a five card poker hand, with ongoing town building and gunfight mechanics drawn from its source setting. After more than a decade out of print, the game returned in 2014 as Doomtown: Reloaded, a redesigned non collectible edition with fixed expansion sets rather than randomized booster packs, continuing publication under Pine Box Entertainment. Two to six players typically compete in a match, which runs about 45 minutes, blending bluffing, resource management and the setting's frontier atmosphere.