#monster train

Stup-Jam art summary 2025.

Did some traveling and learning to be open about different perspectives. Drawing more and deciding out what I want to say. Had a fun playing Monster Train 2 and seeing my art in it (try it on consoles and PC!).

"Heiress to the Pyregel fortune, she might have been born with a golden spoon in her mouth but this dragon has a vicious business acumen. Entire circles of Hell have fallen due to her machinations."

And as a Champion of the Pyreborne clan, you know she's a force to be reckoned with. She can't seem to be bothered with fighting most of the time, preferring to let others work for her while she tends to her hoard and plans out her spending, but once she does enter a battle, she is cocky, boastful, and ready to destroy whoever is interrupting her precious time.

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The Hungry Horrors free demo is out now on Steam!

It’s our first ever Steam release – and we’re nervous, excited, and very sleep-deprived.

We’d love for you to check it out.

Hungry Horrors is a pixel art roguelite deckbuilder where you feed legendary monsters from British and Irish folklore instead of fighting them. Build your deck with traditional dishes like Yorkshire Pudding, Boxty, and Bara Brith. Each card is a meal, and every monster has their own taste.

Get it right? They let you pass.

Get it wrong? You become the next meal.

If you’re into:

• roguelites with actual strategy

• folklore, fairytales, and mythological creatures

• games like Slay the Spire or Hades

• cooking mechanics that aren’t just minigames

• grim but whimsical pixel art

…then you might just enjoy this.

The demo includes:

• 2 full biomes

• 6 unique monsters and 2 bosses

• over 20 traditional dishes

• deckbuilding, buffs, and branching paths

• and a really grumpy Buggane that hates potatoes

We’ve made everything in Godot, drawn every pixel in Aseprite, and poured our hearts (and stress) into getting this playable on Steam – including Mac, Linux, and Steam Deck.

If you give it a try, let us know what you think! Reviews help us so much with visibility right now, especially as a 2-person team self-funding everything.

Thanks for being part of this weird little cooking horror journey.

I don't put anything lower than a 4/7 here bc it's about talking about things I like

For context with the way I do rankings:

7/7: I have brainworms

6/7: media I believe transcends typical standards of good

5/7: media that raised my bar, even in a small way

4/7: I liked it

3/7: I have mixed feelings or didn't like it much

2/7: I don't remember it

1/7: I think it made my life actively worse

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