A holodeck for tabletop card games.
Broccolideck plays digital versions of games inspired by classic trading card and board games. Take on a trained computer player, pass the device around, play over your LAN, or sit down at a table online.
Linux, macOS, Windows, Android and Android TV, the browser, and even e-readers. Free and open source.
The games
Five tables, two bundles.
Each game is a faithful rules engine with its own look, a trained computer opponent, and every way to play. They come as two apps: Board Games I andCard Games I.
Retro Tactical Trading Cards
Two Avatars vie for a 4×5 realm.
2 players
Woodland Creatures Worker Placement
Build a city of critters and constructions through the seasons.
2 players
Sci-Fi Combat Progression Deckbuilder
Build a deck of allies and champions, grow your mastery, and be the last one standing.
2 to 6 players, solo, or 1 to 5 against the boss
Vintage Space Dilemma-Solving Trading Cards
Seed the spaceline with missions and dilemmas, crew your ships, and solve missions for 100 points.
2 players
Vintage Thematic Space Wars Trading Cards
Activate the Force, deploy to the locations of the galaxy, drain and battle until the other side’s Life Force is gone.
2 players
See it played
Cards that move.
Units slide across the realm, hands fan out, workers hop between places and the clock counts down. Here is a minute across the tables.
Play your way
Against the computer, across the room, or across the world.
A trained opponent
Every game has a computer player trained by self-play, at several levels, that thinks on its own thread while you look at the board.
Hotseat
Two people, one device: the pass-device screen keeps every hand private until it is handed over.
LAN play
Host a game and the devices on your network find it by themselves; everything travels encrypted, with no account and no internet.
Online
Private rooms by code, open tables, and ranked matchmaking with ratings. Live games on a chess clock, or a move a day. Anyone can watch.
Logs, saves and replays
Every move is on the record: read the log, save a game and pick it up on another day, keep replays of your online games.
Every screen
Desktop, phone, tablet, TV with a remote, the browser, and e-ink readers. The table layout fits the screen it is on.
Card images
Bring your own art.
Broccolideck ships no card art: it draws every card from its data, cleanly, and shows scans when you have them. Point it at a folder of images you have the right to use, or turn on peer-to-peer sharing and fetch them from other players, checked against the game's catalog so nothing but a genuine image ever arrives.
Support
Keep the holodeck running.
The app is free, the source is open, and playing locally and over the LAN costs nothing. Online play runs on servers; a small pledge on Patreon pays for them and opens more tables at once.
Visitor
Free
Any account, including a Patreon account with no pledge.
- 1 online game at a time
- Rooms, matchmaking and ratings
Regular
$1 a month
A seat that is always yours.
- 2 online games at a time
- 10 kept replays
- Rooms, matchmaking and ratings
Resident
$3 a month
Several games on the go at once.
- 6 online games at a time
- 100 kept replays
- Rooms, matchmaking and ratings