Open now · By request
Pumpkin Reaper playtest
by Aey and Mel Gaming
Pumpkin Reaper is an action roguelike where skill placement shapes your build. Arrange spells, summons, and upgrades in a five-slot Ritual Circle to trigger synergies and awaken powerful Arcana. Fight endless waves, test wild combinations, and push each run further. No permanent power upgrades.
It's free to ask. The developer chooses who gets in.
- Access
- By request
- On playtest since
- Nov 7, 2026
- Planned release
- 2026
- Developer
- Aey and Mel Gaming
- Platforms
- Windows
- Players
- Single-player
- Languages
- English, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil and 3 more
How to join the Pumpkin Reaper playtest
- Open the game's Steam page with the Request access button. Sign in to Steam if it asks.
- Request access to the Pumpkin Reaper playtest there. It's free and doesn't commit you to anything.
- The developer lets players in, often in batches, so it can take a while. Steam emails you when you're in, and the playtest appears in your library.
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About Pumpkin Reaper
Halloween never ends. Neither do the waves.
Build your own Halloween nightmare in Pumpkin Reaper, an action roguelike about surviving endless waves and discovering what your skills can do together. Wield sinister spells, fight alongside summons, and turn each level-up into another piece of your build.
Then open the Ritual Circle. Five slots. Two neighbors per skill. One rearrangement could change your entire strategy.
Five slots. 1,069 skill synergies. Nice.
Explore 1,069 skill synergies by arranging acquired spells, summons, weapons, and upgrades around a five-slot Ritual Circle. Compatible neighbors grant new effects and bonuses, from homing attacks and lifesteal to burning trails, piercing projectiles, and explosive hits.
Placement matters. A skill can strengthen its neighbor without receiving the same benefit in return. Even the last slot connects back to the first, giving every position a part to play.
Pause the action, swap skills, and reshape your combinations as your build develops. The choice is more than what to take next: it is where to put it.
Bring your theory to life.
Build around a pack of summons. Combine frost and flame. Experiment with bats, skulls, poison, and life-draining attacks. Pursue a favorite combination, or adapt when a level-up offers the missing piece for something stranger.
Find out how far your build can go.
Endless survival is the default. Keep your build alive through wave after wave, balancing damage, control, healing, and summons as you push for a longer run.
When you fall, inspect the damage and DPS breakdowns for your skills, rituals, and summons. Find what carried the run, spot what underperformed, and take a new theory into the next attempt.
Start fresh. Return with a better idea.
No metaprogression. No permanent power upgrades between runs. Build your strength during each attempt, then start again with what you have learned about the skills, the circle, and the combinations worth chasing.
Features
- 1,069 skill synergies: discover compatible pairings and build around your favorites.
- A five-slot Ritual Circle: arrange acquired skills to activate bonuses between compatible neighbors.
- 43 Advanced Arcana: combine ritual effects to empower distinct build themes.
- Spells, weapons, summons, and upgrades: mix different tools into your own combat strategy.
- Effects that change how attacks behave: experiment with homing, piercing, lifesteal, burns, poison, explosions, and more.
- Rearrange during a run: pause the action and revise your circle as new options appear.
- Endless survival by default: put your combinations to the test across continuing waves.
- A Ritual Atlas and detailed run results: investigate connections and examine the performance of your builds.
- Fresh-run power: each attempt stands on the build you assemble and the choices you make.
- Halloween at the heart of it: pumpkins, reapers, bats, skulls, and dark magic throughout your arsenal.
From the game's Steam page.
