Show your opponent four cards and they choose 2 and you keep the other two.Īll cards that you choose are played to the Geisha’s based off their preferred gift and then each player reveals their secret card and the round ends.Show your opponent three cards and they choose 1 and you keep the other two.The two players are competing to earn the favor of 7 different Geishas by presenting them with their favorite gifts.Įach round the cards are shuffled and each players is dealt a hand of 6 cards and on their turn players draw 1 more card and then perform 1 of 4 actions in any order of their choice. The theme and the artwork are calm and relaxing, but the gameplay is dread-inducing. You may have noticed me using words related to tension quite a lot in this article, well Hanamikoji is heads and shoulders the tensest game on this list. Note: It might be hard to get your hands on Hanamikoji, but the link above is a reskinned version called Jixia Academy that has the same gameplay with different art.
