Eight months after pulling Ace of Spades from shelves, Devir Games is bringing the Western horror duel game back this May with a corrected card set and a brand-new expansion. The reissue lands at retail in May 2026 and is identical to the original Gen Con 2025 release apart from the removed art.
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Find events near youA quick recap on what happened: Ace of Spades launched at Gen Con last August to positive notices, then drew immediate backlash for two illustrations depicting a Black person in chains and an enslaver, originally intended as references to scenes from Tarantino's Django Unchained. Devir apologised, recalled all retail copies and offered free replacement cards to anyone who'd already bought it. Nine months later, the corrected version is hitting shops alongside the game's first expansion.
For anyone who missed it the first time around, Ace of Spades is a 1-2 player duel game by Spanish designer Benjamin Amorin, with art by Galician illustrator David Rubin. You play a gunslinger fighting demonic creatures across a poker-meets-cinema mash-up, where forming hands from a French deck deals damage. Pairs do one, a straight flush does ten, and you've got 12 escalating enemies to take down with limited moves. It plays in 30 minutes, scales solo or two-player and even has a curated soundtrack to game along with.
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See how it worksAlongside the reissue, Devir is dropping Call of the Zombie, a 15-card expansion that adds new undead enemies and four versions of the Hellbilly boss monster, retailing at $9.99. It's a small add-on but the kind of bite-size bolt-on that suits a 30-minute duel game.
For UK shoppers, Ace of Spades should land through Devir's distribution partners over May. The reissue is a quiet but significant return, showing the publisher took the criticism seriously without abandoning a well-designed game in the process.
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