Laurus

Steam Next Fest · 19–26 October 2026

The house always wins. Fix that.

Rig the machine until it pays out wrong. Draw symbols from your bag across five reels, chain paylines, and slot circuit-board artifacts into combos the house never accounted for. A roguelike deckbuilder about the arithmetic of very bad odds.

Windows PC · Fall 2026

Announcement trailer · 1:17

01 — The machine

Break the machine

5 reels, 3 rows, 15 cells. Lines pay, columns pay, diagonals pay, and five of a kind pays absurdly. Every artifact you slot in changes what a line is worth — and they compound.

A run opens needing 235 chips and ends needing 19,500. The only reason that is survivable is that your machine stopped playing fair somewhere around level four.

A chain reaction multiplying a payout across the reels

02 — The bag

Build the bag

22 symbols. 65 artifacts, each one a circuit card you plug into the cabinet. 11 vouchers, 9 consumables, 6 enhancements, 3 seals.

Buy them, sell them, and drag them into order — artifacts fire left to right, so where a card sits in the rack is part of the build.


03 — The house

Beat the house

11 bosses, each one built to break a specific assumption you have been leaning on. The Cold Reel. The Locksmith. The Purist. The Ferryman.

You get 3 nudges a payout — mark the cells you hate, redraw only those, keep the rest. On a boss round that is usually the whole difference.

A boss changes the machine rules before the player answers with a nudge

04 — Again

Then make it harder

5 machines, each a different bag and a different plan. 3 challenge runs that take something away — the shop, the rerolls, the rare symbols. 8 stakes stacked on top of all of it.

Clear level 8 and the targets keep climbing for as long as you can hold the machine together.

The five Laurus machines cycling through their different starting rules

By the numbers

22Symbols
65Artifacts
11Bosses
5Machines
8Stakes
  • Single-player
  • Playable offline
  • No account needed
  • No monetisation of any kind
  • 32-colour hand-built art

Fall 2026

Play the demo at Steam Next Fest

19–26 October 2026. Wishlist now, then leave an address if you want the demo reminder too — no newsletter or drip campaign.