Jason Rohrer's next game requires you to play for real money

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Jason Rohrer is quite the eccentric game creator. His most well known game is Passage, a free rumination on aging and death, while his The Castle Doctrine focused on the dog-eat-dog criminal underworld of theft and burglary. He even created a board game that won't be playable for approximately 2000 years because he up and buried it in a location only he knows. The kooky nut.
And for his next act, Rohrer is making an occult-themed multiplayer PC game that requires players to bet real money. It's called Cordial Minuet and it sounds wild.
The cryptic teaser site is full of laughably gibberish gobbledygook about occult rituals, but Kotaku has the full scoop on the nitty-gritty details of how it actually plays. It's likely worth a full read, but here's an overview:
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