Crownbreakers Press Kit

Game Infos

Genre
singleplayer tactical card-brawler

Platforms
Win, Linux, Mac OS (more coming)

Release Date
In development

Regular Price
TBA

Developer
Sharkbomb Studios

Contact Email
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Short Description

Tyrants keep the magical city of Cascade in a chokehold. They grow fat by grinding the souls of everyone else into profit. Enough! Crash into their districts and build your deck as you push forward. Use your champions and your cards to fight against demonic billionaires in this turn-based card-game brawler.

Quotes

Crownbreakers is a fast-paced deckbuilder that lives by the motto "The best defense is a good offense". You clobber your way through a sea of goons to bring down the powerful and to stand up for the powerless. Oodles of style and ass-kicking are to be found here, and I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys a deckbuilder.

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Full Description

Crownbreakers is a fast-paced card game of revolutionary violence. This spiritpunk world is ruled by tyrants that grow fat by stealing souls just to grind them into profit. Fight against necromantic criminals and demonic billionaires. Break the soul trade and free your city. Crownbreakers combines turn-based tactics with deck-building mechanics in one snappy package.

Use your champion's actions and your cards together to control the battlefield. Push enemies into the perfect position for your area of effect abilities or chain explosive barrels together to pulverize the opposition. Master this to make the most of your abilities.

Each turn the battlefield advances, uncovering new obstacles, new enemies but also new rewards: rare cards for your deck, powerful relics to enable new synergies, and stickers to add to your cards. Build your deck and keep pushing forward. Only the strong can make it to the boss.

Add Stickers to create powerful, custom cards. With stickers you can increase a card's damage, add new abilities or even extend a card's area of effect. Limits are for other people. And the right sticker on the right card can make or break a run.

Complete quests and return with loot from your battles against the Tyrants. Take from them what you can to share with the city, crank up the mayhem and grow powerful enough to break them.

Key Features

  • Single-player card game
  • A stunning world where modern meets fantasy
  • Push obstacles and enemies to control the battlefield
  • Create satisfying collisions and chain reactions
  • Build up Momentum to advance deeper into enemy territory
  • A deck-building loop that is part of the fight itself
  • Multiple unlockable champions with their own card pool
  • Learn more about the world and its characters through reactive dialogues

Media

Video

Animations

Audio

Development Info

The Team

Crownbreakers is designed & developed by Martin Nerurkar under the label Sharkbomb Studios. Development is only possible with the help of many talented people - too many to fully list here. Nevertheless, I want to point out the following key contributors:

  • Martin Nerurkar
    Game, UI & narrative design, programming
  • Jack Allen
    2d & 3d art and direction, freelance
  • Thai Ha
    Game & Web Design, intern
  • Ivan Lazarov
    Game Design, intern
  • Kylie Stukert
    2d Art, intern
  • Zenden Ong
    2d art, freelance
  • Casey Parkhurst
    2d art, freelance
  • Salene Tarling
    2d art, freelance
  • Anjin Anhut
    2d art, freelance
  • Tom Walker
    VFX, freelance
  • Mauro Annetta Wolf
    Game Design, freelance
  • JK Saavedra
    Additional writing, freelance
  • Lukas Meinardus (Syndrone)
    Sound effects, freelance
  • Filippo Beck Peccoz
    Sound effects, freelance
  • Christoph Jakob
    Sound effects, freelance
  • Mike Beaton
    Music, freelance

Development History

Martin started the initial work on the project in late 2022 after clawing his way out of his burnout. Combining an early promising core gameplay with a setting he's been working on created the spark that would become Crownbreakers. The game is inspired by his cultural heritage and the enthusiasm his own brain has for the crunchy puzzles of card games and turn-based tactics.

Work begain in the middle of 2023. First a concept phase made possible with some funds from the MFG Baden-Württemberg. After that the prototype phase was completed in early 2025, supported by the European Union. Now the team has started production, again with support from the MFG Baden-Württemberg. A successful Kickstarter campaign in the first half of 2026 helped supplement the development budget. A final release date is not known at this time.

Supported by

The development of Crownbreakers was made possible with the help of:

Streaming Agreement

In short: Yes, you can stream Crownbreakers!

Since the game is still in development, that is predicated on you having legal access to the game. If not then you shouldn't be streaming it either. Also the game is still incomplete, so please consider and clearly label it as a work in progress.

If these condditions are met, you're allowed to stream and create videos of Crownbreakers gameplay for your own channel. And if you do, please let me know! You may make content with or without commentary. You are allowed to monetize these streams and videos with ads. And you're allowed the use of Crownbreakers artwork, audio, and logos in conjuction with these streams and videos.

Your content does not need to be positive or flattering - I mean I'd love it it was - but you are allowed to be negative or critical as long as you keep it civil. No personal attacks please.

But: You are NOT allowed to use Crownbreakers, its artwork or audio-material, or video-material of its gameplay outside the context of the game or for any hateful, illegal, or pornographic purposes. And you are not allowed to reproduce significant sections of it. You may also not use any of its materials for LLM AIs, NFTs or other blockchain related bullshit (yes, that's ALL of it).

Links

Sharkbomb Studios Presskit
press.sharkbombs.com

Contact Email
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Social Media
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Discord: discord.gg/sharkbombs