WELKINGS
WELKINGS

Break the cage.
Keep the king.

A real-time card battler for the phone: fighters with personality, elements that react, and a king you break out of his cage, beat — and keep.

I wanted fighters you get attached to, powers worth watching, and a match you want to play again — because next time you will try something else.

Isaac Yarimi, founder
Real-time card battlerMobile browser · no installLaunch · end of November 2026

Real gameplay

Watch it first.

  1. Cards land on your half and walk. The lane fills from both ends.
  2. A spell is thrown — it has a cost, a delay and a shape.
  3. The seal on the far side cracks. When it gives, the king steps out.

Gameplay highlights · Updated 7 October 2026.

What makes it different

Our twiston the genre.

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Fighters with a personality

Every card is a named fighter with a face, a personality and moves of their own.

2

A game for collectors

Fighters come in packs, like real trading cards. Epic, legendary and mythic fighters are hard to find, and a Sky Pass fighter belongs to its season — not everyone will own them all.

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WATER + ELECTRICICE + EARTHFIRE + WATER

Elements that react

Soak, then shock. Freeze, then shatter. Water puts out fire. The order you play changes the fight.

4

Beat the king — and keep him

Break the cage and the king steps out to fight. Beat him, and he joins your side — with his realm's stone for your crown.

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Evolutions inside the fight

Fighters grow stronger as the match goes on — and some evolve into someone new, earned through mastery. VIDO becoming HIGHZAK is the first evolution; more fighters get their own.

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A world with a story

Ten realms, eleven stones and one High Throne — a story that moves forward with every king you win.

Comparable games

A genre players know.A world of its own.

Two games share our genre. Two more shaped the feel we are after. The world and the story are our own.

SAME GENRE · MOBILE · FREE TO PLAY

Clash Royale

Supercell · 2016

Real-time card battles on the phone, and the free-to-play model of the genre.

South Park: Phone Destroyer

Ubisoft · 2017

A real-time card battler seen from the side, where characters walk in and fight.

THE FEEL WE ARE AFTER

Little Fighter 2

PC · 2000

Fighters with moves you remember, and the fun of trying the next one.

Dragon Ball

Anime & games

Powers worth watching: fire from the hand, a fighter who grows, a transformation.

WELKINGS

The genre of the first two and the feel of the other two, in a world of its own: ten realms, eleven stones and one High Throne.

Games named for comparison only; all trademarks belong to their owners.

How it plays

Two teams. One lane.
A king behind each.

You build a team of fighters and elemental spells. Your side marches in from one end, theirs from the other, and the fight happens in the middle — with a king watching over each army.

Your sideYour king. Your team.
Their sideTheir king. Their team.

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The elements talk to each other

Soak them first.Then light them up.

Water leaves a target soaked for a moment. Electric that lands on a soaked target hits far harder. The same two cards, played in a different order, give a different fight.

WATER+ELECTRIC=a much bigger hit
Illustration: NALU soaks GORAN with a wave of water, then TEO's lightning conducts through the water on his body
NaluI soak him first…
Teo…then I light him up!
GoranWhy is it always me?!

The same fire, two results

Fire frees your fighter.It burns theirs.

Fire ends a freeze — but not the same way for both sides. When an area of fire lands, your own fighter caught in it is freed without taking damage. The enemy in the same fire takes the hit and is thawed by it. Thaw the enemy too early and you undo your own freeze.

FIRE AREA→your ally: freed, unharmed·their fighter: hit, then thawed
ENZO throws a fireball
GORAN, your fighter, frozen in ice GORAN freed from the ice, unharmed
MALVO, their fighter, frozen in ice MALVO hit by the fire and thawed
EnzoOne fireball. Watch this.
Goran · your sideOut of the ice. Didn't feel a thing!
Malvo · their sideFree, yes. Also on fire.

Spells

Throw the skyat them.

Between your fighters you throw spells — fire that falls from the sky, a whiteout of ice, a storm that parks on the lane, a rain of light that heals your own side. Every spell belongs to an element, so it plays into the same combos your fighters do.

Fire

Meteor Fireball

Falls from the sky and leaves them burning.

Tap a spell to cast it. Some spells are earned in the realm they come from.

The tower fights back

Break the cage. Wake the king.

Illustration: the ice king sealed inside a towering block of ice at the end of the lane Illustration: the ice cracks and the king's eyes open Illustration: the ice bursts and the king steps down into the lane
Nevar · the ice kingYou broke it.
Now face me.
Sealed Every realm keeps its king locked in its own material. Push down the lane and you start to break it.

Keep scrolling — watch the seal break ↓

The Royal Line

Beat a king.Keep him — and his stone.

A beaten king doesn't just leave the arena. He joins your side and fights for you — and the stone he guarded goes into your crown. Ten realms, eleven stones, one High Throne: every realm has a king to win, and at the centre of the crown sits the eleventh — the Heartstone of the Golden King.

The Heartstone of the High Throne
Illustration: the ice king stands behind your team as an ally
The frost stone rises from the king and flies into the crown
NevarBeat me — and I fight for you. My stone is yours.

Find a fighter you love

Fighters with a personality.Powers worth watching.

What I want is for a player to find a fighter here they actually like — to come back and get better with that fighter, and to find out who else works alongside them. Every element brings its own fighters, its own spells and its own way to win.

HIGHZAK

HIGHZAK

ElectricMEGATON PUNCHOne punch that sends them flying.

Collect

Open a pack.Not everyone gets them all.

A sealed WELKINGS card pack
NALU card
NALUWater · Undertow
Common
TEO card
TEOElectric · Chain Storm
Common
ENZO card
ENZOFire · Fireball
Rare
GORAN card
GORANEarth · Fault Line
Epic
MALVO card
MALVOCurse · Boar Call
Epic

Fighters come in packs, like the trading cards players grew up collecting — common, rare, epic and legendary, and mythic fighters that never drop from a pack at all. The rarest are hard to find, the roster keeps growing, and a Sky Pass fighter belongs to its season: miss it, and it is very hard to get later. You build your deck from what you own.

Business model

Play free.Climb faster.

Everyone plays for free, and everyone moves forward by playing. Players who want to get there sooner — the next level, the next realm, the fighter they love — pay to shorten the road. It is the model the genre is known for, built around our own world.

PLAYFightA match on one lane, with a king behind each side.
EARNEarnWelcoins, packs and vaults from every win.
GROWLevel upCard copies and Welcoins level a fighter; essence levels a spell.
CLIMBClimbGlory opens the next realm — and a realm reached is never lost.

Purchases with prisms, the premium currency, make every step of that loop faster.

SEASONAL

The Sky Pass

A seasonal pass with a free track and a gold track — and the suit waiting at the summit, a mythic fighter that belongs to its season. The gold track costs the price of the $4.99 prism pouch.

OFFERS

Offers

A daily offer on the hero you play the most, a weekly royal bundle, the card box of ten packs, the catalyst and the suit's mythic core.

STORE

The prism store

Prisms, the premium currency, in six price points — larger packs give more value.

$0.99$4.99$9.99$19.99 · best value$39.99$79.99
EVERY DAYDaily giftFirst win of the dayDaily card dealsHero of the dayCrown road rewards

No ads. Prices are the store ladder in the current build.

Where we are

Played by hundreds.Loved face to face.

  • Playable today in the mobile browser — open a link and fight. No install.
  • Hundreds of players have played it face to face — in schools, with kids, friends and families. The response has been strong, and many of them loved it.
  • Public launch at the end of November 2026 — with online battles against real players, the first season and its Sky Pass. Measurement is already built into the game.
  • Selected for the Big Indie Pitch at PG Connects Nordics, Helsinki, and accepted into the DevGAMM Awards.
Play it nowScan with your phone — the demo opens in the browser.

The road

Launching at the endof November.

NOW

Playable

  • In the mobile browser — a link, no install
  • Fighters, spells and kings on the lane
  • Packs, the card box, the Sky Pass and the store
  • Measurement built in
END OF NOVEMBER 2026

Public launch

  • Online battles against real players
  • Season one and its Sky Pass
  • Installs from the browser, like an app
  • Our first measured players
WINTER 2026–27

Season two

  • A new season and a new pass
  • New fighters
  • Tuning from real player data
2027

The app stores

  • iOS and Android
  • Clans and events
  • More kings and transformations inside the fight

The team

One developer.Built to finish.

WELKINGS is built by one person: its founder, Isaac Yarimi, at HIGHZAK — the design, the build, the art direction, the production and the films, with a production pipeline he directs himself. That is how one developer reached a playable game.

IY
FOUNDER · SOLE DEVELOPER · GAME DIRECTOR

Isaac Yarimi

Founder of HIGHZAK, a studio that builds websites and apps and creates and edits video. Isaac made WELKINGS himself — he designs it, builds it, directs its art and produces it, end to end. Driven and hands-on: what he starts, he finishes.

What we bring: a playable game, a world built for season after season — new fighters, kings and realms — and an in-house pipeline that keeps the game, its films and its ads coming.

The ask

Build WELKINGSwith us.

INVESTORS

Investors

Investors who see the opportunity and want to join the company — bringing capital, and with it experience and reach, to take WELKINGS from its launch at the end of November to a live game that grows season after season.

THE ROUND

$250,000 seed

For the six months that follow the launch.

  • 60%Players — user acquisition
  • 25%Online play — servers and backend
  • 15%Live ops and new content
Contact Isaac ↗
WELKINGS

The fighters you get attached to. The combos you learn. And a king who starts fighting the moment you break through.

Real-time card battlerMobile browserFighters · spells · kingsPlay free · climb fasterLaunch · end of November 2026HIGHZAK

Contact · king@welkings.com · HIGHZAK · Cyprus