A Day in a Consultant's Life. A fast, satirical card game about deadlines, sabotage, support decks and the sacred ritual of pretending everything is under control.
Move the slider and watch your consultant become a pastel diagram of professional despair. The rules change as stress rises.
You still believe the timeline. Adorable.
Switch between Task, Support and Sabotage to see how each card type changes the emotional weather of the table.
Complete big work, score progress, and draw enough stress to hear the legacy system whisper your name.
Translation for reference only: the printed card is in English.
Pick a corporate persona and receive one questionable advantage.
A tiny preview of how a session feels: time passes, scope grows, sanity decreases.
Tap a project to reveal its special kind of pain.
Translation for reference only: the printed card is in English.
Translation for reference only: the printed card is in English.
ASAP is a series. The consultant edition is here. Other stressed lives will follow.
The first ASAP edition: 2-5 players survive real consulting projects between deadlines, sabotage and passive-aggressive support. Available soon in print.
The same stress engine, applied to other beautifully dysfunctional worlds. Which ones? Still confidential, like every good roadmap.
Got a stressed life that deserves its own deck? Tell us: the next edition will be the one people ask for the most.
There's no store yet, no launch date, no marketing budget, just this page, passed from one exhausted consultant to the next. If someone sent it to you, they already saw themselves in it. Now it's your turn.
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| Stress | State | Playable | Hand |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0-1 | Healthy | Everything | 5 |
| 2-3 | Stressed | Small Task · Support · Sabotage | 5 |
| 4-5 | Overburn | Small Task · Support | 3 |
| 6+ | Burnout | Support only | 3 |
Optional modifiers
Scale the Project Stress Limit for tables of 4 or more, depending on the mode you're playing.
For every player above 3, increase the Project Stress Limit by 4.
For every player above 3, decrease the Project Stress Limit by 4.
Short answers, zero buzzwords. Almost.
For authenticity. The consulting world runs on English: nobody has ever simply talked to a client: they aligned the stakeholders. Playing in English is part of the satire, and it means the same deck works in any office on the planet.
2 to 5 players, about 10-15 minutes per game, roughly the length of a meeting that could have been an email.
Complete the Tasks required by the active Project card before total Stress on the table reaches the project limit. Support cards remove Stress and grant shields; Sabotage cards generously share the pain with your colleagues.
No. If you have ever had a deadline, a manager or a “quick call”, you are qualified. Consultants just get the extra pleasure of recognising themselves in every single card.
Both. Race to complete the Project first, or switch to cooperative mode where everyone wins together, or burns out together.
The retail edition is launching soon online. Companies can also order custom branded decks: yes, your firm’s logo on the Sabotage cards. Get in touch for corporate orders.