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Divorce Simulator: the two-player card game

By the We Geek Together staff · Updated November 13, 2026

• Released: 2019
• Players: 2
• Mechanic: Split and choose, bluffing

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Divorce Simulator was the last game Spider-Goat Games released. The pitch was simple: slam the deck down in front of your partner (or anyone else) and announce you want a divorce. Then each of you tries to trick the other into giving up the better stuff.

How it plays

The game uses the oldest fair-division rule there is: one player splits, the other chooses.

1. On your turn, lay out cards in piles for your opponent to choose from. The cards are possessions, and even relationships with other people.
2. Put some face up and some face down. The face-down cards are where the bluffing happens.
3. Your opponent takes the pile they want, and you keep the other.
4. Swap roles and repeat.

Cards count toward five categories, including Reputation and Possessions. At the end, whoever has the majority in three or more categories wins. Good splits tempt your opponent toward a pile that looks valuable but helps them in categories they have already won or lost.

If you’re looking for the publisher’s full rulebook, it was never archived in a readable form. The summary above comes from the publisher’s announcements. We explain why the mechanic works so well in our guide to split-and-choose games.

History

The game was announced in September 2018 with a prototype demo at RinCon in Tucson. It launched on Kickstarter in June 2019, and production was finished in October 2019. See the history page for the full timeline.