Red Rising is going digital. Stonemaier Games and Emerald City Games announced on 5 May that the 2021 hand-management card game based on Pierce Brown's Red Rising sci-fi novels is getting a full Steam adaptation, with a Q4 2026 launch window.
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Start organising for freeIf you've not played the tabletop original, Red Rising is a quick-playing strategy card game for 1-6 players from designers Jamey Stegmaier (Scythe, Wingspan) and Alexander Schmidt. You play one of the colour-coded castes from Brown's books, drawing cards representing characters from the series and chaining their abilities to build influential houses on Mars. It runs around 45-60 minutes and sits at a 7.1 on BoardGameGeek with a deck of 112 unique cards, every one with its own art and effect.
The digital version brings the whole deck across, with solo and online multiplayer up to six players, AI opponents, animated effects and custom voice work. Steam launch is confirmed for Q4 2026; price and any future console or mobile ports are not yet announced. Developer Emerald City Games is a Burnaby, BC studio whose previous credits lean mobile (Tomb Raider: Reloaded, Star Trek Legends), so this is its first board game adaptation, which is worth flagging.
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See how it worksFor groups split across the country, this could be the version that finally lets you all play together without one person having to learn 112 cards on the fly. And if your group is local, the original is still in print and easy enough to find. Either way, a regular game night is the best way to put it to use.
Sources: COGconnected | Stonemaier Games | BoardGameGeek
