Standover is a card game for 2 to 6 players with a bidding (vying ) mechanism. You are the leader of a criminal gang. You compete to control busineses that you draw income from. But the bids you make are paid to your competitors, so the dynamic tension is in how much you are prepared to pay to control something, knowing that you are actually paying off your enemies for it. At your disposal are hitmen, femme fatales and soldiers. And the ultimate prize: to be the Don and skim everyone else's score. An easy entry multi-player game that involves bidding, but not gambling. —description from the designer