Mr Magpie's Harmless Card Game is Minesweeper reimagined as a deckbuilder set in a murder elevator

Giant Light Games and publisher Behaviour unveiled Mr Magpie's Harmless Card Game at the PC Gaming Show — a deckbuilder take on Minesweeper where you're trapped in an elevator with a deeply unsettling felt puppet who will absolutely shoot you if you make the wrong move.

The setup is straightforward: a table of face-down cards, and your job is to flip the ones that earn you money and stack positive modifiers while steering clear of the JERRY cards. Flip a JERRY card and you die. The metaprogression layer works exactly how you'd expect from the genre — spend your earnings between runs on perks and deck upgrades to improve your odds next time. The developers frame the premise as: "Mr. Magpie thinks you can't afford his unreasonably expensive elevator. Prove him wrong." Visually, the whole thing is deliberately askew and off-putting, which is clearly the point.

If Balatro had you locked in for months, this one has the same pull — that compulsive one-more-run energy, just wrapped in puppet-based existential dread. Having Behaviour on board as publisher suggests the project has more runway than your average solo indie release.

No release date yet, but the Steam page is live for wishlisting. Behaviour is also offering Dead By Daylight cosmetic rewards tied to the game for players already in that ecosystem.