Habby is best known for mobile games like Archero, Survivor.io, SSSnaker, Souls, and Capybara Go!, but now the company is heading somewhere new. Under its dedicated PC and console publishing label HABBY.FUN, the mobile gaming giant is preparing to debut its first PC title, Piroker, at PAX West 2026.
The eight-player roguelike autobattler combines poker with pirate warfare, and attendees will be able to get their hands on it from September 4th-7th at Booth 52525 in the Arch Building.
It’s a pretty significant move for a publisher whose biggest successes have come almost entirely from mobile. Piroker isn’t just another game in the lineup, it’s effectively HABBY.FUN’s introduction to PC players.
Poker Meets Pirate Warfare
The game itself is every bit as strange as that description sounds. Piroker takes familiar poker hands and turns them into weapons. Pairs, Straights, Full Houses, and other combinations can trigger abilities from your crew, with stronger hands potentially setting off chains of attacks capable of sending rival ships to the bottom of the ocean.
Each match brings eight players together in a free-for-all, with everyone drawing from the same deck and trying to build the strongest crew before their opponents do.
Before things get underway, you’ll choose a pirate hero with their own starting abilities and economy modifiers, then pick special relics capable of changing how your deck works. From there, it becomes a balancing act between improving your own strategy and keeping an eye on what everyone else is building.
Luck will obviously play a part. Knowing what to do with a bad hand matters considerably more.
There’s More Than One Way to Cheat
It wouldn’t be much of a pirate game if everyone played nicely. HABBY.FUN says Piroker will feature more than 60 pirate heroes, over 100 Treasure Skills, and 40+ exotic fish that function as powerful relics capable of permanently changing your build.
There are also so-called “illegal” tactics to play around with, including cursed deep-sea creatures and legendary cheat hands. That opens the door to some very specific builds. The developers have already highlighted combinations like High-Card Snipers and Flush Bombers, with the idea being that every run gives you different pirates, relics, and strange sea creatures to work around.
One voyage might leave you desperately chasing a Straight, while the next could revolve around creating something completely different.
PvP Without Waiting Around
The eight-player battles aren’t limited to traditional real-time multiplayer either. Arena Mode uses asynchronous PvP, allowing you to face ghost fleets created from other players whenever you want rather than waiting for seven people to be online at the same time. Private real-time lobbies are also planned for anyone who would rather gather a crew of friends and settle things properly.
There’s no full release date yet, with the Steam page currently listing Piroker as coming at a later date. A Steam playtest is already available, though, and players can request access now.
Habby’s First Step Into PC
The PAX West debut is particularly important. For HABBY.FUN, this isn’t simply another convention appearance. It’s the first major public showcase for a publishing label built specifically around bringing Habby’s approach to PC and console players.
Rather than playing things safe with its first release, it’s opening with an eight-player poker roguelike where pirates cheat, fish grant game-breaking buffs, and a Full House can get someone’s ship blown to pieces.