Indie · Browser game

The Cup

Early access

Released July 17, 2026 (last week)

Also known as The Cup - Preview Feed

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Runs in your browser — nothing to install

About The Cup

The Cup is a free 1v1 creature card battler that runs in your browser. Field a survivor and a line of three creatures, every contestant is a mutated version of a real North American animal, entered under its true natural history - then play cards, roll dice, and hold the center. Variance is a choice: every creature is tagged safe, swingy, or jackpot, so the gamble is always one you opted into and everyone watches the die land. No skip button - the animations are the interface. Play live 1v1 by invite link, run single-elimination Gauntlets with medals, or fight the House. Currently in open early access.

A hundred years after the end of the world, an alien athletics commission found Earth's feral wildlife and its stubborn survivors, declared the whole planet an Invitational, and started broadcasting. You're at the qualifier. Every match airs on the Galactic Athletics Commission feed, ad breaks and all. The animals are real, the natural history is real, and the hundred years of consequences are the joke. The goose is unchanged. The war changed nothing whatsoever about the goose.