From Press Release:
Sunscorched Studios has opened enrollment for KEYKRUNCHER™, a first-person keyboard-eating horror roguelite where players are enrolled in an experimental treatment programme for their insatiable desire to consume keyboards.
“We made RATSHAKER™, a game about shaking a rat to find your wife.
Now we’re making KEYKRUNCHER™, a game about eating a keyboard, one keycap at a time.”
– Calvin Parsons, Founder, Sunscorched Studios
You have been “fused” to a desk in an assessment room with a scrambled keyboard, a gumball machine, and IT waiting at the end of the hallway. Almost everything on the desk is interactive. Tokens can be taken, machines fed, levers pulled, gumballs handled, and rewards eaten, banked, placed, or survived.
Press the correct keys on your real keyboard, or use the mouse to interact with them, and KRUNCH matching keycaps in-game. Obey the monitor, clear escalating treatment lessons, earn tokens, gamble them away in a sinister gumball machine, and decorate your desk with cursed rewards that might just keep you alive.
Every lesson pushes the treatment further. More keys. Stranger demands. Less time. Riskier rewards. Worse things in the hall. Each run reshuffles the keyboard, demands, rewards, and treatment conditions. Survive the Final Assessment or continue into Endless Treatment until the programme inevitably consumes you.
Set in a new purgatory within the RATSHAKER™ universe, KEYKRUNCHER™ blends tactile keyboard gameplay, escalating roguelite progression, physical gambling mechanics, desk charms, and Sunscorched’s signature grimy, high-contrast, PSX-inspired nightmare advert aesthetic into what is undoubtedly the world’s first keyboard consumption treatment programme.
Features
Press your real keyboard to KRUNCH the one in-game.
Use the mouse to grab, pull, inspect, and interact with your treatment desk.
Obey the monitor’s increasingly questionable instructions.
Survive escalating treatment lessons.
Earn tokens and spend them in a gumball machine.
Pull consumables, cursed keycaps, and desk charms that change future lessons, future keyboards, or the run you’re desperately trying to survive.
Curate the perfect treatment desk whilst rapidly losing your mind.
Explore a new purgatory set within the RATSHAKER™ universe.
STEAM ENROLMENT IS NOW OPEN
KEYKRUNCHER™ is currently in early development and targeting a 2026 release on PC via Steam.
A free demo is planned for later this year.
Steam: https://store.steampowered.
com/app/4887630/KEYKRUNCHER/ About Sunscorched Studios
Sunscorched Studios is a tiny independent game studio based in the United Kingdom.
We make strange little horror games.
After a difficult year, we’re now a team of three. We’re smaller than ever, but we’re still here, making experimental, unhinged games for people who enjoy ideas that probably shouldn’t exist.
Praise be to the Almighty Pineapple.
