The dragon doesn’t want gold or treasure. It wants dinner.
The upcoming dice-based roguelike Feed The Scorchpot has officially set an August 20 release date on Steam, challenging players to keep a very hungry dragon satisfied for the next twenty years.
Each run revolves around rolling dice to gather ingredients, combining them into recipes, and feeding a hungry dragon before it decides you’d make a better meal instead. Miss a feeding and the run comes to an abrupt end, creating a constant balancing act between expansion, efficiency, and survival.
To stay ahead, players will build farmsteads, shrines, harbours, and other structures across a hex-grid island. Every placement influences how resources are generated, turning the map into a puzzle of interconnected bonuses and increasingly ridiculous combo opportunities.
There are plenty of opportunities to get ridiculous. The full release promises more than 50 buildings, over 80 recipes, and 20 different dice types to experiment with. The goal is to create powerful engines that generate enough food to satisfy a dragon whose appetite only grows larger as the years pass.
The hand-drawn art comes from Daniela, one half of the married development team behind the project, helping give the game a cosy personality that contrasts nicely with the constant threat of being eaten.
You can even pet the dragon. Which feels like a sensible thing to do when your survival depends entirely on staying in its good books!