Bang! (card game)

is a Spaghetti Western-themed social deduction card game designed by Emiliano Sciarra and released by Italian publisher DV Giochi in 2002.

Each player receives a unique character card with special abilities and a number of 'bullets' (representing life points), and takes one of the four roles with different objectives: The game is played in turns, in clockwise order, starting with the Sheriff.

Each player's turn has three phases: Each character comes with a set number of life points and a unique ability.

Players who are already dead when the game ends are still considered to have won if their team's win condition is met.

This leads to a "two-faced" nature of the Renegade, trying to weaken each side (Outlaws and Deputies) while keeping the Sheriff alive until the end.

On October 29, 2009, Palzoun Entertainment (which acquired the official license from DaVinci Games) announced the development of a Bang!

[citation needed] In 2014, DaVinci Editrice initiated a lawsuit against Ziko Games, the Chinese manufacturer that had published Legends of the Three Kingdoms, a game that DaVinci claimed was a clone of Bang!, simply changing the Wild West theme and art to that of ancient China.

While the court found there was potential for copyright infringement on its initial hearing,[9][10] it ultimately ruled in favor of Ziko Games and dismissed the case in 2016.