Steam just dropped the demo for Flask and it's pure unhinged goblin juice. Debt-ridden alchemists mixing potions to boss around teams of grotesque homunculi in auto-battles? Sign me up for the meat grinder.
Chop Chop Games cooked this roguelike deckbuilder autobattler with hand-drawn nightmare fuel by John Kenn Mortensen — twisted proportions, matted fur, hollow eyes, the whole creepy papercraft vibe. You start broke in a mobile tower, recruit up to three 'munks, slap elemental flasks in the perfect order for synergies, then kick back while they auto-slaughter mutated beasts for that sweet green blood cash. Async PvP turns other players' builds into surprise bosses on the global leaderboard. Ghost Ship Publishing (Deep Rock Galactic crew) is backing it, no release date yet but the demo's live right now.
RPS called it a grim brew of genres they usually skip, but that gross art and debt-fueled chaos has everyone side-eyeing it. Over 500 flasks, mutated merchants, roguelike runs with a couple extra lives to soften the RNG slaps — it's giving Slay the Spire meets TFT in a cursed alchemist's basement. Go wishlist or demo it before the hype goblins take over.