Traders and Tricksters

Traders and Tricksters

HFMA · May 18, 2024 · Casual, 2D, Board Game, Multiplayer, Stealth

Traders and Tricksters is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

PC
9 user reviews78% · 9
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Traders and Tricksters price

Traders and Tricksters is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.

About Traders and Tricksters

An online multiplayer board game with a twist: Gather all the cards or trick others into getting fake cards.

Traders and Tricksters — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux / SteamOS
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Online PvP, Cross-platform multiplayer
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Traders and Tricksters has an interesting core concept based on the classic card game Cheat, with mechanics around trading and bluffing that could appeal to fans of social deduction games. However, the game suffers from a nearly non-existent player base making it impossible to actually play, combined with a poor UI and dated visuals that fail to present the game appealingly. Players advise against purchasing due to the lack of active matchmaking and technical presentation issues that make the experience unviable.

Recommended Aug 11, 2024
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7 found this helpful
Recommended May 19, 2024
-Did I spend half an hour waiting for people to play? YES -Did anyone join my game? NO -Did I have fun? YES
2 found this helpful
Not recommended Nov 13, 2024
"Traders and Tricksters" is a spin on an old card game I used to play called "Cheat", the idea is that you trade cards around but you can also cheat and give people cards that weren't requested to benefit yourself and harm them... of course there's a risk in doing so. The game is presented badly with a really shockingly poor UI (I know you have to put screenshots of your game up on the store page but it must have hurt for this one knowing how bad it looks), and of course, it's a multiplayer game with ZERO players. If you download this, you're not going to get into a match. It cannot be played. The game features really lacklustre 2D visuals (does the developer not know 3D graphics became mainstream in the mid-1990s?). Gamers don't spend thousands of dollars on gaming rigs to pretend they're mobile phones or Commodore 64s. This could have been done in a web browser. Not every "free" game really is. There's often MTX, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of things that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and thei…
1 found this helpful
Recommended Sep 25, 2025
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