Planned Release Date: Nov 10, 2026

About This Game

The Cup is a free 1v1 creature card battler, broadcast live. You coach a survivor and a line of three creatures. Every turn you play one card and make one attack, then the die TV decides how hard it lands while BroadcASH and BOBcast call it from the booth. Knock out all three of theirs and the match is yours.

THE DIE DECIDES. YOU CHOSE THE DIE.

Every creature is printed Safe, Swingy or Jackpot. Safe hits for the number on the card. Swingy rolls. Jackpot can miss outright, and a natural can wipe a creature off the board. You pick the risk when you draft, and everybody watches it land. There is no skip button, because the animations are the interface.

EVERY CARD DOES EXACTLY WHAT IT SAYS

Any of your creatures can hit any of theirs. No lanes and no hidden rules: the card is the rule, and the feed spells out every hit, reflect and knockout as it happens. A dome that hands damage straight back. A bee that stings once and follows its target to the Pit. Three a side, and three to six minutes a match once you know the rules.

TONIGHT'S FIGHT CARD

• 59 contestants and 9 survivors from the United States, Canada and Mexico, every one a real animal with a checkable file

• THE ROAD: five authored bouts against invasive species, three stars each to earn

• Matches against the House, dealt or drafted, as many as you want

• Live 1v1 on Steam from the full release on November 10

• Every match written to tape, with highlights and replays

• A shelf of mugs to earn, and a score composed in-house

THE STATE OF THE BROADCAST

The rules, the dice, the booth and the natural history are done. The card art is being commissioned one creature at a time: seven of sixty-eight are painted so far, with more on the way, and the rest wear placeholder art until their turn comes.

Free demo on Steam, October 10. THE ROAD, the tutorial and matches against the House, offline. Card art by @chioart08, @prayogaardip, Ondřej Tichý and @tmcglynnart. A broadcast of the Galactic Athletics Commission.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

The two announcer voices, BroadcASH and BOBcast, are generated with ElevenLabs from scripts we write and edit ourselves. Every line is approved, levelled and listened to by hand before it ships.

Nothing else in the game is AI generated. The card art is emoji placeholder today, and is being replaced with original illustrations commissioned from human artists. The music is composed in-house by our own procedural scripts, and every track has a written provenance log. The rules, the design and the natural history research are ours.

Some marketing copy is drafted with AI assistance as a rough draft and then edited before use.