Stack the skewer. Chain the combo. Watch it all sizzle.
A roguelike deckbuilder where the order of your ingredients decides everything. Assemble kebabs on a skewer, then hit grill and watch your combos resolve in a cascade of juice, sauce and chaos — Balatro-style escalation wrapped in a hand-illustrated street-food world nobody else is making.
Most deckbuilders ask what you play. Skewered Up! asks where you put it. Every ingredient reacts to its neighbours — pushing, transforming, dripping and spreading down the skewer — so a single swap can turn a modest kebab into a screen-filling chain reaction. No reflexes required: you plan, you commit, and the grill does the rest.
01
A hook you can screenshot
Kebab-building on a skewer is instantly readable in a store page, a trailer, or a three-second clip. The concept sells itself before a word of copy is read.
02
Proven genre, unclaimed theme
The roguelike deckbuilder audience is large, active and hungry for the next one. Nobody is serving it a Turkish street-food setting with this visual identity.
03
One sentence per ingredient
Every effect is explainable in one line, so onboarding is near-zero. Depth comes from how effects combine — the ceiling is high while the floor stays wide open.
04
Built for clips and streams
Runs are short and combos resolve in a satisfying automated cascade — the exact shape of content that streamers replay and short-form platforms reward.
Gameplay
The Loop
Three beats, endlessly recombined — each run pushes your deck somewhere it has never been.
1
Stack
A customer orders. You pull ingredients from your deck and slot them onto the skewer, weighing every adjacency against a ticking clock.
2
Grill
Commit, and control leaves your hands. Effects fire down the skewer in order — pushing, transforming, spreading sauce — and the score escalates as the chain resolves.
3
Upgrade
Cash out at the shop. Buy, remove and enhance ingredients to sharpen your deck — then face a tougher customer with a build that is entirely yours.
Combos resolve automatically once grilling begins — work in progress
Design Pillars
What Every Decision Is Measured Against
Strategic Ordering
Sequence is the source of depth. Finding the synergy hiding between two ingredients is the core discovery of every run.
Deck Building
Adding, cutting and enhancing ingredients turns each run into a distinct build with its own combo chains.
Culinary Chaos
Ingredients physically shove, drip and transform each other. Strategy resolves as spectacle rather than a spreadsheet.
Time Pressure
A running clock keeps the pace high and decisions instinctive, without ever demanding mechanical execution.
Easy to Learn, Hard to Master
Simple effects, combinatorial depth. Randomness opens new opportunities instead of invalidating good decisions.
Market Position
Familiar Enough to Sell, Different Enough to Notice
Skewered Up! sits inside a genre with a proven, still-growing audience — and arrives with a theme and a mechanic that no comparable title occupies.
Balatro
What we take
Exponential combo escalation and the roguelike progression that made it a phenomenon.
Super Auto Pets
What we take
Positional effects and abilities simple enough to grasp at a glance.
Omelet You Cook
What we take
A food theme and cooking presentation that reads as instantly satisfying.
Deck Dash
What we take
Order-based synergies that resolve automatically once the player commits.
All footage from the current in-development build.
Every customer brings a target score and their own demandsA full skewer, moments before the chain resolvesBetween rounds, the shop is where your run takes shape
Publishers & Investors
Let's Talk About Skewered Up!
We're a four-person team with 10+ shipped Steam titles behind us, building this full-time. If you back bold, artistic PC games, we'd like to show you the build.
