The workforce right here at Timberline Studio is tough at work on Beastro, and I’m thrilled to provide you a bit of extra perception about what we’ve been engaged on. Beastro takes place in Palo Pori, a peaceable village of artisans and tastemakers. However hazard simmers simply past its protecting wall, the place ravenous monsters from one other realm have begun to creep into the world.
You play as Panko, a younger, gifted chef who has been serving to run the native eatery. When Panko’s mentor mysteriously disappears, a stranger arrives with warnings of the threats gathering outdoors the village. Immediately, Panko should shoulder way more accountability than anticipated, managing the restaurant, gathering elements, tending to patrons, and supporting the courageous Caretakers as they search to save lots of the world.
Flavorful Fare
Beastro’s core mechanics are guided by taste: bitter, salty, bitter, candy, and umami. These flavors form complete areas, affect the creatures and monsters inhabiting the wilds, and function the basis for our card gameplay, with every taste being a card swimsuit.
Inventory your pantry with the elements you’ll be able to collect, farm, and fish all through city. If you’re feeling prepared, open the restaurant and feed the visiting Caretaker, getting ready them for his or her day by day enterprise.
A Tasty Deck
In Beastro, when you’ve crammed the stomach of a Caretaker, they’ll embark on a enterprise and return to inform their story of battles and discovery. Each night time, you’ll finish your day at the tea home, listening to the tales and discovering the progress the Caretakers made that day. These tales take form in the type of a paper puppet present, respiratory life into each encounter and letting you affect what occurred earlier that day. It’s as much as you to assist repel the vicious creatures and discover who unleashed these menaces on the world.
Each monstrous encounter in the puppet theater takes the type of a turn-based battle, impressed by conventional trick-taking card video games. Monsters set the taste of the spherical (or trick), and also you’ll look to play suitable taste playing cards. In case you overpower the monster, you’ll deal harm to your opponents and possibly carry out a particular capacity too.
Your deck is comprised totally of taste playing cards from the actual elements and recipes you used throughout the Mise en Place section. You’ll end up wielding salty, bitter, candy, bitter, and umami playing cards, every with its personal worth. And each meal you cook dinner is an opportunity to unlock new playing cards, particular skills, and mixtures that can allow you to delve deeper into the wilds. Bear in mind these bitter elements? Many of them supply the likelihood to transform your harm to well being. Perhaps add a marshroom to your meal so you’ll be able to put the monster to sleep, so it can not play a card.
However be careful, you’re not the just one wielding taste magic. The monsters all have their very own particular skills, too. And when you’re not cautious, you may end up with a handful of burned-up playing cards, reducing their energy in half!
A Hearty Thank You
We’re so grateful to have you ever be part of us on this journey. Now we have extra to share, however for now, try our new Gameplay Trailer for a style of what’s to return!
Beastro
Timberline Studios
Palo Pori is an attractive and peaceable village of artisans and tastemakers. Past the village’s protecting wall, darkness has begun to stir. Ravenous monsters have claimed the land and threaten to sink their tooth into this ultimate morsel of hope and happiness.
Play as Panko, a younger, proficient chef, serving to to run the native eatery. When Panko’s instructor goes lacking, a mysterious customer arrives with warnings of the risks past the wall. It is as much as Panko to step up and take over the restaurant and have a tendency to the elements and patrons. However that’s not all, Panko additionally finds himself serving the Caretakers, courageous adventurers, despatched to save lots of the world. On this journey, preserving peace begins in the kitchen!
FEATURES – WHAT’S ON THE MENU?
FROM TOWN TO TABLE
In Palo Pori, recent is finest! Collect elements and sources, look after animals and develop your individual fruit and veg to construct up your very personal cozy city to desk restaurant. Forage for wild herbs and unlock new seeds to develop to increase your meals.
SERVING YOUR COMMUNITY
Chop, flip, and sizzle your approach by way of mouthwatering mini-games as you whip up pleasant dishes for the townsfolk. Good meals is at all times higher with firm, so work laborious to enhance your cooking and experiment with elements, to maintain your patrons completely satisfied.
Tailor your restaurant to the tastes of your neighborhood, develop new meals, progress your know the way by way of a talent tree and modify the decor to extend your restaurant’s attraction.
FEED THE CARETAKERS
You’ll additionally must feed the hungry Caretakers; these courageous denizens of the land will enterprise out into the wilds to struggle the ravenous monsters threatening the peace of Palo Pori. Every Caretaker hails from their very own flavour area, affecting their very own tastes and preferences: some prefer it bitter, some prefer it candy and a few are simply seeking to fulfil their craving of the day! Craft considerate meals and steadiness the flavour profiles to spice up their spirits, sharpen their expertise, and unlock new skills. As a result of let’s face it… Who can save the world on an empty abdomen?
DELICIOUS DECK BUILDING
Now it’s time to place your meal to the take a look at! That is the place style meets ways. The dishes you serve will construct your Caretaker’s deck – every ingredient unlocking a card. And as soon as they’ve eaten, they’ll enterprise into the wilds to struggle the monsters. Upon their return, they’ll recount their journey and play out their battles by way of an enthralling puppet theatre sequence. They could even convey you again some MONSTEROUS elements from their ventures. Battle the monsters in turn-based deck constructing fight, impressed by conventional trick-taking card video games. Outplay the monsters, by matching their flavour magic or neutralising it with a balancing card. Add an enhancing card to energy up your strikes! Your magic can flip the tables!
Make the most of the distinctive results of your elements to place your enemies to sleep, blow away their playing cards, and extra, however be careful, you’re not the just one with particular skills. In case you’re not paying consideration, you may get burned.
On this food-based fantasy journey, it’s time to provide peas an opportunity! – Are you able to get cooking?
Unlock the magic in meals.