Pickled: A Pickleball Saga

Set the ball on fire. Drop a piano on someone. Lose to a pensioner anyway.

A single-player arcade pickleball roguelite, coming to Steam, iOS and Android.

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The Local Championship map: a green board of round stops joined by dashed roads, with a boss crown at the far end and your stats on a card beside it.

Choose your route

Climb from the local park to the world final. You pick every stop: matches, shops, rest stops and events.

Two pixel-art pensioners with grey hair and glasses hold up their paddles at the vast yellow eye of a green sea monster.

Respect your elders

Challenge everyone from pensioners to sea monsters. The sea monsters are the easy bit.

The Pro Shop: paddles swinging from a rail, price tags on each, and a pickle behind the counter saying fresh gear, champ, take a look.

Build your kit

Buy paddles, shoes, balls, wild serves and Specials between matches. Anyone you've beaten can be signed as your partner.

The game over screen, on red rays: Your Knees Have Gone. One more game?

Mind your knees

You have three, and every lost match costs one. Lose them all and the run ends, but what you've unlocked stays.

Every good tune needs one wrong note.

Sour Note Games is an independent studio making the games we want to play. Pickled is our first.

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