A tank battle at night. An enemy tank is wrecked with its neural unit exposed, labelled Neural Unit Critical.

Hand-drawn roguelike deckbuilder / Solo-made

Leadbelly

Leadbelly

You pilot a tank. You wreck what's in front of you. Then you pull the brain out while it's still warm.

Play the free demo Out now on Steam. No key needed.

Trailer

Every frame drawn by hand

What makes it different

Two things worth knowing

Killing is the boring option

Damage something badly enough and it doesn't just die. It drops into a helpless state with the neural unit exposed, and you can pull it out. That's how you unlock things between runs.

So a fight isn't only about clearing the board. It's working out which enemies to kill quickly and which to keep alive long enough to strip.

And it cuts both ways. Lose your hull and you're sitting there with your own neural unit hanging out, one hit from the end.

An enemy tank radios for repairs while another sits wrecked with its neural unit exposed.
The player tank fires on a group of enemy tanks that are shielding one another.

The enemies work together

An engineer will reload a drone that's spent its bomb. A scout will become a spotter for the artillery sitting behind it.

They're built to read as a unit rather than a row of separate health bars, and a lot of the strategy comes from that rather than from raw numbers.

The opposition

Four factions, four elements

Each one fights around a different element, and each one wants something different from you. The demo covers the first.

The player tank on the left, then five PowderKeg enemy vehicles getting progressively larger.
01

PowderKeg

Explosives and pressure. They come at you fast and they do not mind dying loudly.

In the demo
02

BlackEmber

Fire and fuel. They burn over time and they get worse the longer a fight runs.

03

StormFront

Water and current. They soak you first so the next thing they do hurts more.

04

CopperLung

Gas and corrosion. Nothing they do kills you immediately, which is the point.

Screenshots

Scrap, shells and cheap tricks

A battle at sunset against heavy artillery tanks. A night battle with an enemy neural unit exposed. Enemy tanks repairing one another mid-fight. The player tank with its hull destroyed and its own neural unit exposed, one hit from the end.

Press and creators

Say hello

The demo is free and public, so there's no key to ask for. Just download it. If you need anything else, screenshots, art, a build for a specific platform, or answers to questions, get in touch and I'll sort it.

Developer
Rodrigo Ribeiro
Genre
Roguelike deckbuilder
Platform
PC / Steam
Demo
Out now, free, no key required
Languages
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, German
Press contact
contact@leadbellygame.com