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Daddy's Dungeon: Bathhouse is a satirical dungeon-crawl card game for 3–8 players, set in a gay bathhouse. Players cruise a hallway, meet the man behind each door, and either manhandle him for Daddy's Favor or talk their way past him and take his twunks. First to Favor 10 holding three twunks crosses the Threshold into the sauna.

3–8 players60–120 min18+

Gameplay

How to play Daddy's Dungeon: Bathhouse

A card game for 3 to 8 players. On your turn you open a door, meet a man, and either fight him or flirt with him. Win and you move up. The first player to reach Favor 10 wins. Follow the steps below in order.

3–8 players60–120 min246 cards18+

There are two ways past every man in this building.

You cruise the hallway — draw a Door card and meet whoever's behind it. Then you choose.

Manhandle him. Your Favor plus your gear against his Level. Beat him and you earn Daddy's Favor and whatever he was carrying. Ties go to him; he was there first.

Or seduce him. Roll a die against a target that gets harder the bigger he is. Succeed and you leave with his twunks — no fight, no treasure, no Bad Stuff. Fail and the Bad Stuff lands anyway.

Two currencies, and they want different things from you.

Favor is how you climb. Twunks are how you win — you need three of them in front of you to cross the Threshold. But a twunk is also worth +3 in a fight, and burning one is often the difference between winning tonight and winning at all. Every twunk you spend is one you have to replace before you can claim the game.

Nobody starts as anybody.

Your tribe and your position come out of the deck like everything else. Until you find them you're a Walk-In — no bonuses, no restrictions, no respect. And you can be cursed straight back out of who you are.

Then the room turns.

The Pen holds forty-eight cards and only fourteen men. Sacrifice one and he never comes back. The moment it empties it's Last Call: the lights flick twice, every man in the building gets harder, and nobody new is walking in. Recruit faster.

The night can also just end.

Take enough Bad Stuff and you're Thrown Out — the room picks over your things from poorest to richest, you lose the lot, and you come back at Favor 1 with a fresh towel. It is not losing. It is the only thing that stops a runaway leader.

First man to Favor 10 by beating a monster, holding three twunks, walks into the sauna. Nobody walks in there alone.

Step by step

What's in the box. 111 Door cards, 87 Treasure cards, 48 Twunk cards — 246 in all, from 212 individual illustrations. Eight player boards. Ten Favor flame tiles, a Last Call marker, one die, and a 16-page rulebook. 3–8 players. 60–120 minutes. 18+.

Balance figures are from simulation only until the human playtest report is published.

What the words mean

Room by room

See where each rule lives.

Cruise the halls

Bring friends.

One email when the launch opens.

The house

Ten rooms. Everyone in them wants something.

The building is the game. Every man you meet is standing in a room, and the room is why he's lit the way he is. Ten of them, from the door you walk in through to the one nobody walks through alone. Pick a room on the map to see who's in it.

Route: the alley, the front desk, the cold plunge, the steam room, the locker room, a private cabin, the dark room, the dance floor, the bar, and finally the sauna.

Room by room

From the door you walk in through to the one nobody walks through alone.

The street corner. A bouncer, a queue that isn't a queue, and the decision to go in. Nothing has happened yet.

The lobby. Plexiglass check-in window, a wall of key hooks, a vending machine and a vinyl bench. Amber lamplight. This is where you find out what you cost.

The lockers. Cold fluorescent, hard shadows, everyone pretending not to look. Where things get taken and where they get found again.

The showers. Dim cool white and haze. Brief, and busier than it looks.

The steam room. Tile, not wood — a deep blue dark you can't see three feet into. The oldest arguments in the building happen here.

The hot tub and pool. Lit from below by underwater lamps, caustics crawling across the ceiling. Nobody looks good in this light. Everybody stays anyway.

The Pen. The dance floor. Fourteen men, forty-eight cards, and a DJ. You come here to recruit and you leave with whoever you got.

The bar. He's three drinks in and he has a theory about you.

The hallway. The darkest part of the building — a narrow maroon corridor of cheap louvered doors and wet rubber tile, lit by sconces. Every door is a card. This is what "cruise the hallway" means.

The private rooms. One lamp, one bed, one door that's either open or it isn't.

The dark room. A bare red bulb and not much else.

The sauna. The end of the path. Daddy is in there. You need Favor 10 and three twunks to cross the Threshold, and you don't get to see him until you do.

Nobody walks in there alone.

One email when the launch opens. Bring friends.

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3–8 players60–120 min18+

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Be first through the door.

Daddy's Dungeon: Bathhouse
A dungeon-crawler card game through a Los Angeles bathhouse

He's been in that towel since Tuesday.

Ten rooms. Everyone in them wants something.

Meet the house.

Two ways past every man in the building.

Be first through the door.

How to play Daddy's Dungeon: Bathhouse

There are two ways past every man in this building.

Two currencies, and they want different things from you.

Nobody starts as anybody.

Then the room turns.

The night can also just end.

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From the door you walk in through to the one nobody walks through alone.

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246 cards. Three decks. 212 illustrations.

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Be first through the door.

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Be first through the door.

Daddy's Dungeon: BathhouseA dungeon-crawler card game through a Los Angeles bathhouse

He's been in that towel since Tuesday.

Ten rooms. Everyone in them wants something.

Meet the house.

Two ways past every man in the building.

Be first through the door.

How to play Daddy's Dungeon: Bathhouse

There are two ways past every man in this building.

Two currencies, and they want different things from you.

Nobody starts as anybody.

Then the room turns.

The night can also just end.

{{ st.title }}

Bring friends.

Ten rooms. Everyone in them wants something.

{{ r.name }}

From the door you walk in through to the one nobody walks through alone.

Nobody walks in there alone.

Eight profiles. One sauna.

Which profile are you?

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{{ b.name }}

Your score track is Daddy's DM thread.

Pick a profile. Then pick a night.

246 cards. Three decks. 212 illustrations.

212 illustrations. All of them.

{{ c.name }}

See the whole deck first.

I'm Holden.

Be first through the door.

Press

Be first through the door.

Daddy's Dungeon: Bathhouse
A dungeon-crawler card game through a Los Angeles bathhouse