Influence · prediction · risk
A competitive trick-taking card game where every bid carries weight. Seize Conscriptions, wield the Ruling Class, and manage Corruption on the road to 35 Influence.
戦の世
Three players · 30–40 minutes
Predict how many Conscriptions you can claim, follow the led faction, and decide when the round’s Ruling Class is worth the risk. Win beyond your bid and Corruption follows.
Figures of the conflict
Shogun, Ninja, Samurai, and Monk form the game’s four color-coded factions. Select one to bring it forward.
Influence shifts with every hand.
Dispatches from the review table
Independent reviewers found a familiar trick-taking foundation transformed by layered bidding, Corruption, distinctive factions, and a richly realized setting.
Purple Phoenix Games found play brisk and enjoyable once the faction hierarchy clicked, praising the artwork and the optional scoring modes for adding intrigue beyond classic Spades.
Gayming Girls highlighted Corruption as the strategic twist: a mechanism that kept both players weighing every bid—and still discussing alternate plays after the game ended.
Tabletop Simulator’s editorial blog selected Onin among its favorite medieval-themed games, applauding its accessible reinvention of trick-taking, distinctive rules, artwork, and color-conscious design.
These articles evaluated prototype or pre-release versions of the game; summaries above are paraphrased from the linked original coverage.
The living archive
A structured chronicle designed to grow with new histories, characters, houses, and places.
History & timeline
Clans & allegiances
Places & battlefields
Thirteen cards. One Ruling Class.
Predict the Conscriptions you will win.
Resolve thirteen Skirmishes.
Gain Influence. Carry Corruption.
Be first to thirty-five Influence.
Extending the battlefield
The site is prepared to connect with the mobile experience as it takes shape—without locking the game or its story into a template.
PHYSICAL EDITION · A BATTLE OF ONIN
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