Beastro preview: a delicious roguelite riff on cozy gaming

When you hear the term cozy game, a set menu of gameplay offerings leaps immediately to mind: farming, crafting, fishing, and cooking. Beastro, the upcoming game from indie developer-publisher Timberline Studio, has all of those elements. But it mixes up the familiar recipe by adding a sprinkling of tactical deck-building combat. Having spent some time with the game ahead of The Game Awards earlier this week, it’s clear that all these ingredients harmonize remarkably well around Beastro’s central ideas of food and flavor.

Editor-in-Chief for Robots Over Dinosaurs Anthony has been gaming since the 1980s. Working adjacent to the gaming industry for the last 20 years, his experience led him to open Robots Over Dinosaurs.

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