LOCKOUT!

Strategy card game for iPhone and Android

Control Zones.
Lockout and Win.
Play with Friends

Lockout! is a quick, cut-throat strategy game. The cards are a standard deck. The board is unlike anything else: thirteen spaces, three zones, and rules that shift depending on who holds them.

★ 5.0 on the App Store|Played in 50+ countries|Free to download

Want a look first? Play a hand in your browser

Learn it in a minute

A standard deck, a board of thirteen spaces, three zones. Read the full rules

  1. 7♠
    7♥

    1.Claim a space

    Play a card onto its matching space: a 7 goes on the 7. Your card on top means the space is yours, until your opponent covers it.

  2. A♥
    2♦
    3♣

    2.Control a zone, bend the rules

    Hold A-2-3 and you play two cards a turn. Hold three in a row from 4 to 10 for bonus points. Take J-Q-K and face cards go wild.

  3. K♥
    K♣
    K♦
    K♠
    🔒 LOCKED · 3 pts

    3.Lock them out

    A space holds four cards. Whoever plays the fourth owns it for the rest of the game, and it scores triple. Time it right.

The full game lives on your phone

The browser version is a taste. The app is where you build a record.

Solo

Three AI opponents

Start on Easy, graduate to Hard. The tougher the opponent, the more XP a match pays. The browser version only has Medium.

  • Easy🔒0.75× XP

    Plays loosely and makes mistakes. Good for learning the board

  • MediumIN THE DEMO1× XP

    Chooses from its better moves. A fair fight

  • Hard🔒1.25× XP

    Finds its strongest move nearly every turn

The Lockout

50 bosses. 10 cell blocks.

The Warden runs a prison for champions. Fight through ten cell blocks of five bosses each, every block on its own board. Three lives per block; lose them all and you start the block over. Free a block's World Boss and the theme is yours.

  1. Block AToon Town
  2. Block BBlockworld
  3. Block CThe Grid
  4. Block DKaiju Bay
  5. Block EThe Dojo Circuit
  6. Block FAction Hero
  7. Block GThe Studio
  8. Block HRock Arena
  9. Block IThe Conservatory
  10. The VaultVault Heist

Daily

One match a day, same deal for everyone

Every day has a seeded deal. One official try, a streak for showing up, and a link to challenge a friend to the same hand.

☀️ Daily Match #214🔥 6-day streak
  • Abyssal Deep at a 7-day streak6/7
  • Frostbound at a 30-day streak6/30
Challenge link: “I scored 87 on today’s Lockout! Beat me.”

Progress

XP, levels and daily quests

Every match earns XP toward 100 levels. Controlling zones and locking spaces pays extra, and fresh quests arrive every day.

Level 12340 XP to level 13
  • ✅Play 3 games+30 XP
  • ✅Win 2 games+50 XP
  • ⬜️Control 5 zones+40 XP
+50% XP on your first game of the day+30% XP on weekends

Collect

40 badges to earn

8 tracks to chase: Level, Wins, Win Streak, Zone Master, XP Earned, Daily Quests, Bosses Defeated, Worlds Cleared. Every badge pays an XP reward, and you can feature one on your profile.

  • 🌟
  • ✨
  • 💫
  • 🌠
  • 👑
  • 🎯
  • 🥉
  • 🥈
  • 🥇
  • 🏅
  • 🏆
  • ⚡

Together

Pass and play with friends

One phone, two players. Play your turn, hand it across the table, and the screen hides your cards until your friend is ready.

🙂

You

📱

pass it over

😏

Your friend

New in 1.1

The Lockout

The Warden has locked up the game's champions, one to a cell block. Climb ten blocks of five bosses each, every block on its own board with three lives to spend. Boss intros, home-turf arenas, and a World Boss at the end of each block. Free one and the block's theme is yours.

  • Block A

    Toon Town

  • Block B

    Blockworld

  • Block C

    The Grid

  • Block D

    Kaiju Bay

  • Block E

    The Dojo Circuit

  • Block F

    Action Hero

  • Block G

    The Studio

  • Block H

    Rock Arena

  • Block I

    The Conservatory

  • The Vault

    Vault Heist

25 hand-drawn themes. All of them free.

Each one changes the board, the suits and the sounds. Every theme is earned by playing: free a cell block, keep a streak, hit a milestone. None of them are for sale.

  • Classic

    Yours from the first game

  • Sweet Shop

    Beat The Rookie

  • Viking Saga

    Beat The Wall

  • Wild West

    Beat The Rusher

  • War Room

    Beat The Tactician

  • Synthwave Arcade

    Beat The Wildcard

  • Vault Heist

    Beat The Lookout in The Vault

  • Outer Space

    Play 25 games

  • The Haunt

    Win 50 games

  • Samurai Dojo

    Win a perfect game

  • Abyssal Deep

    7-day Daily Match streak

  • Pharaoh's Tomb

    Control all 3 zones in 15 games

  • Mount Olympus

    Reach level 25

  • Clockwork Foundry

    Earn 10,000 XP

  • Grandmaster

    Win 25 games on Hard

  • Frostbound

    30-day Daily Match streak

  • Toon Town

    Beat The Rookie in Block A

  • Blockworld

    Beat Pickaxe Pete in Block B

  • The Grid

    Beat Byte in Block C

  • Kaiju Bay

    Beat Hatchling in Block D

  • The Dojo Circuit

    Beat White Belt in Block E

  • Action Hero

    Beat The Stuntman in Block F

  • The Studio

    Beat The Sketch in Block G

  • Rock Arena

    Beat Garage Gary in Block H

  • The Conservatory

    Beat The Student in Block I

  • Dragon's Hoard

    Reach level 50

Thinking about it

Lockout! on your table?

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Your move.

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