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As young witch Nyx, gather resources in evolving minigames, upgrade your party, and battle through a world covered in darkness.
Released 21 May 2025
Apples Become Bullet Hell
Build Nyx's Party
Battle to Reveal Map
Cauldron is an upgrade-heavy, minigame-centric, turn-based RPG. Play minigames to strengthen your party, then win battles to uncover more map, more heroes, more minigames, more everything! If your favorite plant is an upgrade tree, then this game is for you!
Developed by SleepyDad Games · Published by Caketown Interactive
Play as Nyx, a young witch exploring a shadow-covered world. Defeat monsters to reveal more of the map, meet allies, and uncover the truth behind the darkness.
Gather resources through minigames including apple collecting, fishing, mining, and other challenges. Spend what you earn to upgrade the minigames themselves, as well as heroes, abilities, and items; advancing their skill trees can change how some minigames play.
Build and equip a party of heroes for turn-based battles, or unlock automation for parts of the game. High scores improve the rate of passive resource collection, while additional game modes add different rules and further upgrades.
Players who enjoy incremental games often praise the way upgrades transform the minigames, the satisfying cycle of earning resources and growing stronger, and the option to automate activities or tackle alternate modes. Some also enjoy the characters and story. Other reviewers find the repeated progression grind tiring, criticize particular minigames—especially fishing—and say battles can become tedious or the story feels slight.
Cauldron is a game about exploration, battling monsters, and leveling up your party through minigames. Gather resources to upgrade minigames, heroes, abilities, and more! Play as Nyx, a young witch cast into this darkness-covered world. Discover the truth and find new allies to help you on your journey!
Play minigames to gather resources!
Infinitely upgrade minigames, heroes, items, and more!
Battle monsters to explore more of this mysterious world!
There's no "right" way to play Cauldron...
Do you love to grind minigames over and over? Go for it!
Would you rather let the game auto-collect while you're gone? No shame in that!
Do you love to carefully organize your party and skills to dish out maximum damage? Go ahead!
Would you rather get completely overpowered so you don't have to think about any of that stuff? Great!
Exponential minigame progression (we're talking REALLY big numbers)
Unique skill trees for 20+ heroes
Multiple game modes, including Idle, Pacifist, and EVIL
Unlockable autobattler to do the battling for you
An upgradable collection box that auto-gathers resources
Character skits
A snarky pink sidekick who never leaves your side
Talking birds
| Platforms | Windows |
|---|---|
| Achievements | 100 |
| Age ratings |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
