Ringing Review: VM18 Card Game | Replaying

Are you looking for a board game different from the others? Here is the review of Squillo, an absolutely VM18 card game, a challenge between prostitute protectors!

Today's review of the Rigiocando column is on Squillo, a game created in 2012 by singer Immanuel Casto, who made transgression in an ironic key the common thread of his songs and made them successful. The game proposes a challenge between protectors of prostitutes, with an explicit and vulgar language but in a humorous and ironic key. At the release of the game there was a parliamentary question to decree a ban on its sale for explicit language, the commodification of women and issues related to sex and drugs.



Ringing Review: VM18 Card Game | Replaying

Purpose of the game | Ringing Review

In fact, the regulation is very simple: each player manages prostitutes, ie cards ring, who possess offensive, defensive values ​​and a cash fee. The ultimate goal is to defeat all the other players and gamers, taking down all their prostitutes.

The game material consists of the deck only, without other accessories, divided into ring cards, power-up cards and event cards.

Set up | Review Squillo

A separate power-up stack is created, while the ring and event cards are shuffled together (main deck). Each player draws 8 cards from the main deck. The first player is decided together, continuing around.

Rules - Round | Ringing Review

At each turn the player or player draws 2 cards (except the first player in the first turn) from the main deck. Prostitutes must be immediately brought into play. Each of them can perform one and only one of the following actions:

  1. Attack - kill a prostitute controlled by an opponent: if the attacker's attack value is higher than the attacker's defense, the latter dies. When a ring attacks, it rotates 90 °, and cannot perform any other actions.
  2. Beat - prostitution: in this case, the pimp accumulates the fees of his prostitutes - there are no tokens, it is theoretical money - and can spend it in the same turn to buy power-ups. Any unspent amounts are canceled. When a caller prostitutes herself, she rotates 90 ° and cannot perform other actions.
  3. Use personal skill - all prostitutes have a skill, some of them are passive, others must be declared. Some skills steal power-ups. When a ringer uses an active ability, she rotates 90 degrees and cannot perform any other actions.
  4. Selling the organs - the player discards the prostitute and receives the fee.

At this stage, if a player is left without girls on the pitch, nothing happens.



Power-ups drawn must be immediately awarded. Each power-up boosts your attack, defense, or fee by one ring. If a prostitute dies, they put all of her power-ups at the bottom of the appropriate deck.

The players have the possibility to play the event cards at the moment they prefer, simply by following the rules written above.

Regulation - Final stage | Ringing Review

By regulation, it begins when the main deck is exhausted. The game continues normally, but if a player is left without a ring on the field, he leaves the game. Victory is awarded to the player who is the last to remain in the game. 

Expansions | Ringing Review

Writing a review for each expansion would be futile, since the regulations are identical: what changes are in fact only the themes. Below is the list of expansions: 

  • East brothel (2013), with an oriental theme;
  • Surviving hunters (2014), with male prostitutes;
  • Satiri e baccanti (2015), with the theme Ancient Greece;
  • Megere from a prostitute (2016), with a Middle Ages theme;
  • Deep space 69 (2017), to the Future topic;
  • Lo spin-off Red Light – A star is porn (2018) presented by PornHub, themed pornstar, with illustrations by Milo Manara.

Our Impressions of the Game | Ringing Review

Ringing is an easy to learn game with simple mechanics. The themes are absolutely for adults, and must be taken with extreme irony and lightness, but this particularity makes it interesting and fun. The games are quite fast, they can last 30-40 minutes, and the composition of the deck alone makes it light to carry to a friend's house or on a trip, requiring only the game plan as space. Each card is easily identifiable as a ring, power-up or event, and is graphically composed - very classically - by a name at the top, the erotic image in the center and the various skills at the bottom.



As a review, we also point out the downsides: it is in fact difficult to remember every single prostitute and her ability by heart: this forces players to often check each other's cards to understand which is the most dangerous to attack, which slows down the game a bit.

The erotic background opens up the possibility of Ringing being revived in new versions and expansions.


Technical details

  • Type: card game
  • Author: Immanuel Casto
  • Illustrations: various illustrators of Freak & Chic
  • Publisher: Freak & Chic
  • Distributed in Spain by: Raven Distribution
  • Duration: 30 minutes
  • Players: 3-6 players
  • Age: 18+
  • Price in Spain: €19,00
Ringing Review: VM18 Card Game | Replaying Raven- Squillo Deluxe Edition Board Game, Multicolored, 1
  • Immanuel chaste, board game, skill, vm 18
7.5 Masterpiece!

Points in favor

  • Quick matches
  • Irony galore
  • Pocket pack
  • Clear designs

Points against

  • Difficult to remember the skills of all the ringers
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