Brewing Barons

Brewing Barons ▎ Pour by day. Fight by night. Print the revolution. ▎ Veridian is choking on coal smoke. Frog aristocrats rule from the sky, pig workers sweat in the streets, and rats scrape by in the sewers. Somewhere in the middle stands a crooked little bar: The Patchwork Keg, run by Patch, a rat raised by pigs, hiding a tail and a lot of secrets. ▎ Run the bar ▎ Brew beer in the cellar, tap the barrels, pour the perfect pint, and keep three very different classes of customers happy, or at least from punching each other. Grow your crops, hire Archie and Otto, and keep the party going. ▎ ▎ Descend into the Root-Web ▎ Beneath the bar lies the ancient root network of the city, crawling with mutated beasts. Fight them in turn-based card battles, chain your cards, and pour your own drinks onto them to change how they work. At the bottom waits Lord Fermantus. ▎ Print your deck ▎ Your cards come from the bar's own printing press. Find printing plates in the dungeon, print new cards, and build a 10-card deck for every delve. ▎ Play the politics ▎ Every faction remembers what you serve and what you print. Keep their loyalty, or face thieves, strikes and drink bans. And watch the Heat: draw too much attention and the Night Watch will raid your bar. ▎ Early alpha (v0.1). This is a work in progress made by a solo developer. Expect rough edges, and tell me what you think! ▎ How to play: Download the zip, extract it, and run Brewing Barons.exe. If Windows shows "Windows protected your PC", click More info → Run anyway. The game isn't signed yet, so Windows shows this for most indie games. ▎ Art made with SpriteCook and audio with ElevenLabs (AI tools), directed and assembled by hand.