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# Pitch Deck // Thirsty Suitors
- URL: https://www.verticalslice.news/pitch-deck-thirsty-suitors/
- Published: 2026-10-02T22:26:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-09T22:28:17.000Z
- Description: Learn how Outerloop Games pitched a surreal, story-driven, turn-based battler at publishers, funds, and platform holders.
- Author: Chris Kerr
- Tags: The Repository, Pitch Deck

**Project:** [Thirsty Suitors](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1617220/Thirsty%5FSuitors/?ref=verticalslice.news) (2023)

**Developer:** Outerloop Games

**Publisher:** Annapurna Interactive

**Platforms:** PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox S/X, Steam, Windows PC

**Length of production cycle:** 38 months

**Team size:** 15 fulltime + external marketing, PR, release management, QA

**Genres:**  Adventure, RPG, Action, LGBTQ+, Action-Adventure

**About:** In this game, cooking is as forbidden as trying to break your family’s generational cycles. Embark on a journey that’s a melting pot of turn-based combat, rhythm action, and spicy mini-games. Save the world, and maybe even your heart, from your corporate sister’s empire.

**Approaches made: "**We talked to 20+ publishers and funds and platforms. We initially did a round of pitches with multiple games to see if any of the ideas had any interest. Most folks seemed to like Thirsty Suitors pitch so we spent time putting together a playable prototype and repitched to possible partners that we thought would be a good fit for us as a team and the title. That initial multiple pitch testing to repitching with a playable took about six months.**"**

**Notes from the developer:** "Thirsty Suitors was a departure from *Falcon Age* so we wanted to build out a section of the game to demonstrate the turn-based combat RPG themed around breakups and relationships. This was also for us as a team to figure out production, art direction, theme, writing, etc. We were expanding the team and figuring out what the game would be so the prototype was an informative and useful exercise."

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