The Carbonara Tales
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Fact sheet
- Game
- The Carbonara Tales (on the stores: Tales of Carbonara)
- Developer
- Andrew Korobkin, solo developer, Poland
- Release date
- 21 October 2026
- Platforms
- iOS (iPhone and iPad), Android
- Price
- Free. The game shows ads; optional in-app purchases are cosmetic skins and Remove Ads
- Genre
- Rage platformer, troll platformer, 2D pixel art, single player
- Content
- 5 tales, 50 hand-drawn death screens, 18 skins, speedrun mode
- Languages
- 24: English, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Polish, Czech, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), German, Dutch, French, Italian, Romanian, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Greek, Bulgarian, Turkish, Korean, Japanese, Chinese (Traditional), Arabic, Hebrew
- Website
- talesofcarbonara.com
- Press contact
- support@talesofcarbonara.com
- Made with
- Godot Engine
Descriptions
The Carbonara Tales is a free rage platformer for iOS and Android. You play a capybara with a tangerine on its head, running through five short, cozy-looking tales where almost every block is a trap. Each death brings a hand-drawn death screen, and the ending finally explains what they all mean.
The Carbonara Tales looks cute and plays vicious. It is a story-driven rage platformer about a capybara with a tangerine on its head, wandering through five tales: a mole village, a winter night with little yetis, the rainy Lemon District, a crab uprising on the beach and a fifth tale that stays secret. A perfect run through a tale takes 40 to 75 seconds. Getting there takes many attempts: blocks fall, floors give way, and most traps only reveal themselves once you fall for them. There are no lives, no energy and no paid continues. The Aura counter simply goes down with every death.
After every death the game shows a hand-drawn death screen, one of 50 drawings, ten for each tale: pizza day, a dog sled ride, a windy day with an umbrella. They look random. They are not. The mood shifts from tale to tale, and the ending explains what the drawings mean and what the capybara's journey is really about.
The game is played inside CAPY-8, a retro handheld console drawn around the screen, with an adjustable CRT effect and a mini-screen where the capybara reacts to everything you do. Play in portrait or landscape, with buttons or touch pads, or with a physical keyboard on iPad. Speedrun mode adds per-tale splits, run history and a live delta to your best time. Eighteen skins change the hero, and legendary skins restyle the whole console. The Carbonara Tales is free with ads; optional in-app purchases are cosmetic skins and Remove Ads.
Key features
- Five short tales, 40 to 75 seconds each on a perfect run, and many more attempts to get there
- Traps hidden in the level itself: no lives, no energy, no paid continues
- 50 hand-drawn death screens that tell a story you only understand at the end
- Retro CAPY-8 console UI: portrait or landscape, buttons or touch pads, adjustable CRT effect, keyboard support on iPad
- Speedrun mode with per-tale splits, run history, a live delta to your best and leaderboards (Game Center, Google Play Games)
- 18 skins: legendary skins restyle the whole console, and three mega legendary skins bring it to life with animations
- 24 languages, offline play and a Safe Mode that removes flashes, screen shake and jump scares
Screenshots
Captured in the game at native resolution: iPhone 1320×2868, iPad 2048×2732, Android 1080×2400. No status bar. Click a preview to open the full PNG.
GIFs and loops
Recorded in the game. Each loop comes as a GIF and as an MP4.
Logo and art
Pixel art from the game, scaled by whole pixels. Logos and the capybara have transparent backgrounds.
About the developer
The Carbonara Tales is made by Andrew Korobkin, a solo developer and UX/UI designer from Poland. He designed the game, its retro console interface and its characters, and drew all 50 death screens by hand. The game is built with the Godot Engine.
Contact and promo codes
Press, creators and streamers: support@talesofcarbonara.com
Want to cover, play or stream the game? Write to us and we will send you a code: it removes ads and unlocks the exclusive RICH KID skin. Please mention your outlet or channel and whether you play on iPhone or Android.
Terms of use
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