Cauldron

A wicked little merge roguelike. Drop, fuse, and brew the deepest horror without boiling over.

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A Suika-style merge game with a dark chibi skin and a roguelike twist. Drop little wretches into a cauldron, fuse like with like up an eleven-tier ladder, and hit each round's score goal to claim relics that bend the rules, until the pot finally boils over.

EngineGodot 4

PlatformsPC, Mac, Linux

Screenshots

The Cauldron main menu, a glowing pot in a dark cellar behind seven carved stone plaques

About

The pot is the whole playfield. A wretch waits at the top, you place it, drop it, and physics does the rest: two of a kind touching fuse into the next horror up the brew order, from a speck of a Mote all the way to The Wicked. The pile only ever grows, and the dashed line near the rim is the only rule that kills you.Brew mode is the roguelike. Every round has a score goal, and reaching it pauses the pot for a draft: one of three relics, from extra sight and rerolls to bombs, wild fuses, and pacts that trade safety for score. Fifteen relics stack into genuinely different runs.Brewing the deep horrors earns Seeds that persist between runs and buy permanent boons in the Seed Vault. Endless mode strips all of that away: no death, no drafts, just the pot, the pile, and a high score, with overflow skimming the top of the brew instead of ending it.

What's In It

An eleven-tier merge ladder of cute-creepy chibi wretches with hand-tuned physics
Brew mode: score-goal rounds with a one-of-three relic draft between each
Fifteen relics: wider wells, wild fuses, bomb drops, combo coils, oracle sight, and worse pacts
The Seed Vault: a lean meta-shop of four permanent boons earned by brewing Wraiths and deeper
Endless mode: no boil-over deaths, overflow skims the pot and takes a cut of your score
A Grimoire bestiary that inks a page for every wretch you brew, with lore for all eleven
Records, combos, screen-shake juice, and a simmering pot that reacts as you climb

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The wretch art, UI plaques, and backgrounds were generated with AI image tools against a locked art direction, then hand-picked and integrated. Design, code, physics tuning, and writing are built by hand.