GladiEaters

GladiEATers is a narrative creature battler that combines top-down JRPG adventures, cooking minigames and turn-based battles for up to six creatures per side. You follow seven Combat Chefs competing to become champion of the CALosseum, while their relationships and your skills develop through the tournament’s roguelike mode.

Seven Combat Chefs

The seven stories converge in a top-down JRPG adventure about cooking, conflict and compassion. The chefs include a pun-flinging egg farmer, a monolingual Finnish baker and his best friend, and at least one secret agent. They set out to prove themselves, settle old scores and perhaps make friends along the way.

You play each character’s backstory and master their culinary specialties before the events of the tournament lead into the JRPG journey. The story explores what it means to cook and eat, with pixel animation and comic sections illustrated by Rosi Kämpe, an artist who has worked for Marvel and DC.

Cook your team

Chop, boil, bake and fry ingredients in short cooking minigames to prepare creatures for battle. Each round gives you a chance to add to your team or evolve an existing fighter into a more powerful form. In Point-Buy mode, you draft a team of culinary creatures instead of cooking them.

Turn-based battles

Command teams in battles of up to 6v6, building strategies and combos from the abilities and synergies of more than 65 GladiEATers. Combat includes more than 200 hand-animated abilities, and you can unlock Combat Chef powers and seasonings to add further options. Up to 12 GladiEATers can be in play at once, with two cosmetic mutations to collect for each creature.

Multiplayer and tournaments

In online multiplayer, you can battle a friend in 1v1 matches or take your Combat Chef powers to a ranked leaderboard. CALosseum Mode continues the story with a series of increasingly difficult battles, spicy run modifiers, character meta-progression and unlockable special abilities and cosmetics. Its endless roguelike runs include sweet and savoury modifiers.