Brews & Kings
A roguelike city builder where every farm, mill, and road exists to brew beer.
Fact sheet
- Developer
- Scarlet Engineering
- Based in
- Taiwan
- Release date
- Coming soon
- Platforms
- PC (Steam)
- Price
- TBA
- Languages
- English, Traditional Chinese
- Website
- https://scarlet.engineering
- Press contact
- press@scarlet.engineering
Description
A roguelike city builder where every farm, mill, and road exists to brew beer. Explore a wilderness that's different each run, claim the rare ingredients you find there, and grow an economy rich enough to pay the King's taxes.
Brews & Kings is a roguelike city builder where every farm, mill, and road exists to brew beer. You are a brewmaster with a royal permit. Each run starts in a procedurally generated wilderness full of rare ingredients, resources, and events. Turn it into a beer economy strong enough to keep the King happy.
The King is fickle, and a new one sits on the throne each run. One wants quantity and forgives almost anything if the barrels arrive on time. Another cares about appearance and expects your city to look rich. Every run ends with one big event you know about from the start: a royal festival, a hard winter, or a spirit that drains your population until you satisfy it. Each King changes what a good strategy looks like before you place a single building.
Every run leaves the world with more than it started with. New buildings, new events, and new merchants join the pool, then you place your first foundation on fresh ground under a new King. Brews & Kings is made by Scarlet Engineering, a Taipei studio building systems-driven games where simple rules produce surprising play.
Features
- Build a thriving brewing city and make your King happy.
- A new King each run: the King's preference changes what a good strategy is before you place a single building.
- A procedurally generated wilderness, different every run, full of rare ingredients, resources, and events to plan around.
- Build specialized districts to raise production and turn a scattered settlement into a city with a purpose.
- Every run builds toward one big event you know about from the start: a royal festival, a hard winter, or a hungry spirit.
- Every run leaves the world richer: new buildings, events, and merchants carry forward into the next.
- A cozy, hand-painted, delightful kingdom you can read at a glance.
Trailer
Screenshots
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Video clips
Short gameplay clips — download individually or grab the .zip above.
Logo & icon
Additional links
- Steam page — wishlist now
- Devlog — development updates
About Scarlet Engineering
Scarlet Engineering is an indie studio that engineers emergence: systems-driven games where simple rules produce surprising play.
Brews & Kings is the studio's take on the city builder: a roguelike where a medieval kingdom lives and breathes beer, and the factions you please, and the ones you don't, shape every run.
Credits
- Design & Code
- Poga
- Studio
- Scarlet Engineering