Feed the Scorchpot Demo

“Roguelite board game with arty medieval swagger.” - Rogueliker

You struck a deal with a dragon: twenty years of protection in exchange for twenty years of dinner service. The island thrives under the beast's watchful eye, as long as the meals keep coming.

Every year, the dragon wakes up hungrier. You roll dice to work your island, harvest ingredients, fuse them into recipes, and cook them down in the Scorchpot — the pot you keep full or end up in. Get the meal right and you prosper. Get it wrong and you're smoke.

Build farmsteads, shrines, and harbors across your hex-grid island, each one changing how the board pays out. The best runs start with a handful of tiles and end with a machine that buries the dragon in food. Then the odds tighten, the dragon turns picky, and you tear the whole thing down and rebuild while it's on fire.

Feed the Scorchpot, keep the dragon happy, and outlast the contract.

• Build a scoring engine — Place farms, shrines, and harbors so they feed each other. A handful of tiles becomes board-breaking numbers.

• Every meal is a math puzzle — Combine ingredients, stack multipliers, watch the score explode.

• Press your luck — Each year raises the stakes: harsher odds, hungrier dragons, the odd tantrum that torches your board.

• Build your dice — Odd, even, colored, even dice carved into six sixes. Tune your tray and pray.

• Hand-drawn, every inch — Each dragon, building, and meal drawn by Daniela, the artist half of the married duo who made the game.

• For combo addicts — If you've broken Balatro or Slay the Spire wide open with one overpowered synergy, you'll feel at home.

• Quick to pick up — Roll, cook, feed: you've got the loop by your first year. Staying ahead of the dragon for twenty is the hard part.

• Cozy on top, ruthless underneath — Hand-drawn and warm, right up until the fire catches.

Cook cleverly, plan badly, or just roll with it — the dragon doesn't care how you win, only that you feed the beast on time. And yes, you can pet the dragon.

About the demo

This is a slice, not a stripped-down build. You get the full tutorial and three seeded runs with the core loop intact. Enough to find out whether "one more year" gets its hooks in.

The rest is built and waiting for the full release: late-game difficulty, the full cast of picky dragons, and the deeper deck-building. We cut a clean snippet on purpose.

If it grabs you, wishlist it. For a two-person publisher and the married duo who made it, that's the most useful thing you can do. And tell us what broke. We read all of it!