Skewered Up!
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.
Position is the whole game.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Loop
Three beats, endlessly recombined — each run pushes your deck somewhere it has never been.
Stack
A customer orders. You pull ingredients from your deck and slot them onto the skewer, weighing every adjacency against a ticking clock.
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.
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.
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.
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
Exponential combo escalation and the roguelike progression that made it a phenomenon.
Super Auto Pets
Positional effects and abilities simple enough to grasp at a glance.
Omelet You Cook
A food theme and cooking presentation that reads as instantly satisfying.
Deck Dash
Order-based synergies that resolve automatically once the player commits.
Who It's For
Screenshots
All footage from the current in-development build.
Skewered Up! — Frequently Asked Questions
Short answers about the release date, platforms, gameplay and the team.
What is Skewered Up!?
Skewered Up! is a roguelike deckbuilder cooking game developed by Amber Roach Games. You stack ingredients onto a kebab skewer, and the order you place them in decides how their effects chain into combos once the skewer hits the grill. Runs are short, fast and single-player.
When is the Skewered Up! release date?
Skewered Up! is planned to launch on Steam in the first quarter (Q1) of 2027. An exact day has not been announced yet. Wishlist the game on Steam to be notified at launch.
Which platforms will Skewered Up! be on?
At launch, Skewered Up! is coming to PC and Mac through Steam (Windows and macOS). Steam Deck, Nintendo Switch 2 and mobile are long-term targets and have not been confirmed.
Who develops and publishes Skewered Up!?
Skewered Up! is developed by Amber Roach Games, a four-person Turkish indie studio, and published by Rogue Duck Interactive and Gamersky Games.
Is Skewered Up! similar to Balatro?
It shares Balatro's run-based structure and escalating combo scores, but the central decision is position rather than hand selection: every ingredient reacts to its neighbours on the skewer, and the whole chain resolves automatically once you start grilling. Its other inspirations are Super Auto Pets, Omelet You Cook and Deck Dash.
How does a run of Skewered Up! work?
Each round a customer arrives with a target score. You draw ingredients from your deck and stack them on the skewer against a running clock, then grill to resolve the combo. Between rounds you visit the shop to buy, remove and enhance ingredients before facing a tougher customer.
Is Skewered Up! single-player, and which languages does it support?
Skewered Up! is a single-player game. Its Steam page lists 13 supported languages: English, Turkish, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
Can I play Skewered Up! before release?
We run closed playtests with players who know the roguelike genre well. Tick the tester box when you sign up and tell us what you have played — we contact testers directly when a new build is ready. Sign up on the studio page.
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