The shop The Game
Coming to Steam · Spring 2027
The building is the strategy.
Grimbly’s Catalog of Affordable Beasts is a monster builder and arena battler for PC. You order a monster from a deeply questionable shop, build it on a strict points budget, and fight it. Every monster is a bet, and every battle is that bet being called.
One budget, spent in public
Every build gets 250 Build Points. Stats, parts, and the weapon all come out of it. Points spent on armor are points not spent on speed, wings, or a net launcher, and the other player can see exactly what you chose to go without.
Fitting is free to undo, so you can try everything. You just cannot afford everything.
The store has opinions
Some parts do not fit some bodies, and the store says so in its own words. A weapon needs something to hold it. Each part takes a socket, and each socket takes one part. The catalog on this site applies the same rules: try the order form.
Then it fights
Demonstrations happen at the loading dock. You come home with a report: who won and by how much, which part decided it, what got bent, and what you earned. Win or lose, you get paid. If you lose, you also get a repair bill.
Where it stands today
- Release
- Coming to Steam, spring 2027
- Platform
- PC
- Built so far
- A proof of concept: the store, the unboxing, the builder, the warehouse, and a results screen, with two beasts, twelve parts, and four weapons.
- Designed, not built
- Ten more beasts and four more parts, shown on this site as sealed crates in the back room. Their names and numbers are first drafts.
- Not built yet
- Real-time battles. In the proof of concept the result of a fight is a placeholder. That is the next thing we are making.
- On this site
- Every picture is a concept painting, made with image-generation tools from our own designs; none is a screenshot, and the game will not look exactly like them. Prices, stats, and rules for items in stock are the build’s own and will change.
- Made by
- Wisp & Wight Lampworks, who also make Brineholme, a game with no monsters in it that we know of.
