Yandere Girlfriends: Imouto, Osananajimi, Senpai

How It Works

The Game

A two-player lane-battler card game of obsessive devotion.
Play cards across three Zones, bluff your opponent, and compete for the hearts of three yandere girls.
First to 12 Affection Points wins the Timeline.

What's in the Box

Affection Tokens

×12

Track Affection Points across rounds. First to 12 wins the Timeline.

Lock Tokens

×4

Track locked Zones. 1 token per turn locked. Remove when the lock expires.

Reference Cards

×8 (4 per player)

Quick-reference cards for each zone's abilities, plus a rules summary. Keep them handy during play.

Zone Cards

×3

Home, School, and Town. Each zone is a battlefield where players compete for affection. Place them in a row to form the board. Adjacency matters: cards played outside their home zone lose Devotion.

Affection Cards

×18 / 24

Your hand, your weapons. Each card has a Devotion value (1-8) and a unique ability. Play face-up to trigger abilities at full Devotion, or face-down as a bluff worth 2 Devotion with no ability.

Zone Bonus Cards

×9

Advanced Mode only. Hidden modifiers dealt face-up under each Zone at the start of each round. They reward specific patterns or alter rules for that Zone. The pool rotates on a 3-round cycle.

All components at a glance

Simple Mode

Setup

▸Lay 3 Zone Cards: Home ↔ Town ↔ School (fixed)
▸Shuffle 18 Affection Cards (Devotion 1-6)
▸Deal 6 cards to each player, set aside remaining 6 face-down

On Your Turn

Play a card or back off

▸Face-up: Full Devotion in matching Zone, ability fires immediately. Adjacent Zone = half Devotion. Non-adjacent = 0 Devotion
▸Face-down: Always 2 Devotion, no ability, identity hidden (great for bluffing)
▸Back Off: Concede the round early (opponent scores 2-5 points based on your remaining cards)

Scoring on round ends

▸Control 2 of 3 Zones = score 5 Affection Points
▸Zealous Penalty: Win all 3 Zones = LOSE 3 points instead
▸Ties go to the first player. Loser goes first next round
▸First to 12 Affection Points wins the Timeline

Mid-game board state

End of round — scoring

Advanced Mode

What Changes

▸Zone positions shuffle every round
▸Each Zone gets a random Zone Bonus Card
▸Deck expands to 24 cards (adds Devotion 7-8 cards)
▸Deal 8 cards each, then Sculpt Phase: discard 2 cards before playing

Devotion 7-8 Cards

▸No ability. Instead, they have a Requirement (a cost to play face-up)
▸Can't pay the Requirement? Play it face-down as a normal 2-Devotion card
▸Some Requirements trigger Lock tokens that freeze Zones for 1-2 turns

Bonus Scoring

▸Meaningful Location: Control a Zone with this bonus = +1 point (even if you lost the round)
▸Escalating Obsession: +1 point per 2 cards in the Zone (only if you won the round)
▸Bonus pool rotates on a 3-round cycle to prevent repeats

Mid-game with shuffled zones & bonus cards