Welcome to the Cheapass Games Double-Secret Web Site. Cheapass Games is in the process of hibernating, which means we can be a bit sluggish and hard to reach. Most of us have moved on to better careers, and James Ernest is slumbering peacefully in a warm hole in the ground.

News Flash: Cheapass Games lurches back to life.

Button Men is back! Cheapass Games is taking another stab at yon electronic games market, by creating an iPhone version of their best standing-in-line game. Button Men is now available for the iPhone thanks to James Ernest and the game developers at Thrust Interactive.

It's got a two-player mode, a one-player mode, and 24 characters including the original Soliders and Vampyres, plus six new characters (with familiar recipes from Brom).

You can read all our old stuff about Button Men at the archival Beat People Up site, which hides quietly beneath cheapass.com.

More is coming soon, including expansions to Button Men, as well as some other familiar Cheapass Classics like Pennywise, Flip, and more.

And if you're looking for the old for-free game that used to live at buttonmen.com, it's still there at www.buttonmen.dhs.org.

Update March 31, 2007

Our Featured Product this month is Enemy Chocolatier, for those of you who missed it during its 2006 release. It's an exceptionally strategic game with a "Euro Game" feel, but despite that quality it comes in at a very tight 40 minutes. With snappy cover art by Cheyenne Wright and full-color boards, Enemy Chocolatier is a steal at just $6.

As for the "hibernation" note above, Cheapass Games is currently projecting no new releases and no reprints in 2007. We are taking some time to sell down our bloated inventory of game products, and earn actual money working at real jobs at other companies. We have begun selling some titles from our back catalog to other publishers, including Kill Doctor Lucky (Out of Print), which is now available in a full-color edition from Titanic Games (an imprint of Paizo Publishing).

James Ernest continues to release new game designs into the wild, including the stunning Gloria Mundi, which shipped last fall from Rio Grande Games. Look for other news of James Ernest's moonlighting design career at Lone Shark Games.