Conversation card games

Skip the
small talk.
Go deeper.

Two decks built to open real conversations. One for the table full of friends. One for the person across from you.

★★★★★ 4.6 on Amazon 50,000+ decks sold Amazon's Choice
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Substance card game

Deck one · for the table

Substance

90 question cards across three levels, Vulnerable, Intimacy and Mind. Each one is deep in its own way, and which one cuts deepest depends on who is holding the card. Refuse a question and you take the dare.

VulnerableIntimacyMind2 to 6 players15+
Spark card game

Deck two · for two

Spark

Made for couples. Three levels that move from what you remember, through what was never said, to what you have both been thinking.

NostalgiaClosureInferno2 players18+
$19.99
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The one most people buy

Both decks.
One table.

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You save $5.98
$34.00$39.98

Friday night with everyone, and Sunday morning with one person. The pair covers both, and it is the gift that never needs explaining.

  • Substance, 90 question cards plus a rules card
  • Spark, the couples deck, 3 levels
  • Ships from the US, $5 flat
  • Two full decks, sealed
★★★★★4.6 from 308 Amazon reviews
Substance
Spark
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Substance and Spark ship direct within the US. Substance is on Amazon with worldwide delivery.

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50K+ Decks sold
4.6★ Amazon rating
90 Question cards
3 Levels deep

How it plays

Three levels.
One rule.

No board, no scoring, no setup. Open the box, pull a card, read it out loud. The only rule is the one that makes it work.

01

Pick your level

Vulnerable, Intimacy or Mind. Each one asks a different kind of question, and which one goes deepest depends on the person answering.

02

Read it out loud

Pull a card and ask the table. No board, no scoring. The question does the work, and the answers are why the deck gets pulled out again.

03

Answer, or take the dare

Do not want to answer? You do not have to. But the player across from you chooses your dare instead. Nobody escapes clean.

Dami · Founder · Atlanta

Our story

“The whole point of the game is to unlock conversations that not everyone talks about on a regular basis.”

Dami built the first deck because the conversations he wanted to have were not happening on their own. He filmed people playing it. Then the internet did the rest, and 50,000 decks later the questions are still his.

The receipts

Fifty thousand
decks in.

Every number here is checkable. Substance holds Amazon's Choice in conversation card games, and the rating below is the live one on its Amazon listing, not a number we wrote ourselves.

★★★★★

4.6 / 5

From 308 verified Amazon reviews
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Amazon's Choice

In its category on Amazon.com
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50,000+

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