🎰 Othercrown, the new game from the solo developer of Katanaut, has been announced for PC. Its first trailer premiered on IGN alongside the launch of its Steam page, and it’s scheduled to release in Q1 2027. A public demo is in the works.
👑 Forget Saving the Kingdom. Tear It Down.
In Othercrown, you play as the villains. Your army lives on your slot reels: every card you draft becomes a symbol in your own slot machine, and spinning it deploys monsters and spells into battle against the human kingdoms above.
Your hordes fight on their own while you keep the reels spinning, so the trick is building a machine efficient enough to keep pumping out ever-increasing forces.
This slot machine pays in monsters.
Solo developer Eugene Maw, who runs the one-person studio Voidmaw, has revealed Othercrown, a deck-building auto-battler roguelite where you build your own slot machine and lay siege to the human kingdoms. It’s the studio’s second game after Katanaut, and it swaps that game’s sci-fi action for an unusual mix of slot mechanics, deckbuilding and automated combat. If CloverPit got you hooked on slot machine roguelikes, this one puts an army on the reels.
How Othercrown Works
🎰 Build Your Reels
Draft and arrange your reels before each battle, using wildcards and multipliers that change how they react.
⚔️ Spin Into Battle
Your hordes fight on their own while you match creatures and spells for bonuses. Slow time when a jackpot is one reel away.
🧪 Mutate Your Army
Give creatures fire, frost or poison attributes and new abilities, and stack matching cards to level them up.
🗺️ Choose Your Road
Pick your path across a branching war map, with a boss waiting at the end of every stage.
⛏️ Waking Up Underground
The story starts deep underground, where you wake up after a long burial with no memory of who put you there or why. As you dig for answers, you’ll meet characters who help you along the way, and humans who just want to keep you below the surface.
Your enemies will also try to counter your hordes and strategy, so you’ll need to adapt between runs. Each run earns experience to level up your character and unlock new creature cards, mutations and spells.
🧪 Demo and Playtests Coming
In the Steam reveal post, Eugene says a public demo is in development, and followers of the game will be notified when it goes live. There’s also a call for playtesters, with playtesting news shared on the game’s Discord.
About Voidmaw
Voidmaw is a one-person independent studio run by Eugene Maw and founded in 2024. Its first game, Katanaut, launched on Steam in September 2025, published by Acclaim. The studio describes itself as having a deep passion for roguelites and a drive to create games that challenge and inspire players.
Genre
Deck-building auto-battler roguelite
Developer & publisher
Voidmaw (solo developer Eugene Maw)
Platform
PC (Steam)
Release
Q1 2027 · public demo in development
Features
Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Leaderboards · full controller support
Languages
14 supported, including English, French, Italian, German and Spanish
📅 Coming to PC in Q1 2027
Wishlist Othercrown on Steam, follow Voidmaw on X for updates and sneak peeks, and visit othercrown.com.
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