
Journey along haunted, procedural paths toward the dormant center of a handmade world. Fight your way through atmospheric, varied regions and become the first to cross the Barrier, one turn at a time.
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"Beyond the great plains and mountains, deep inside the forbidden lands, lies a dormant kingdom, untouched in centuries. Those who enter the vast ranges of its terrible curse, will forever drift along its unknowable, shifting paths. Running from horrible creatures, hiding in crumbling ruins, watching for lights on the mountain during starry nights."
After months of travel across windswept plains, mossy forests, and barren mountains the ancient city appears far on the horizon, its broken towers rising from the haze. On a steep pass you see the cursed land below, its features moving and winding like giant snakes beneath the fog. The fisherman told tales of those who vanished in the Barrier and of the horrible visions it gave. At dawn you set out across a placid lake, in search for the hidden entrance to the Barrier.
Turn-Based Heart Beat: This is a tense, turn-based experience where one rash step can invite disaster. Survey each situation, and carefully think about your next step. When you die, the game is over.
A New Adventure: Each run starts at one of over 1500 locations in the world from where you have to make your way along a winding, unpredictable path that leads you through forests, ruins, and dungeons.
The Forbidden Land: Explore dark forests, sunken temples, sandy plains and spider-infested crypts in a world created entirely by hand using the engine's built-in editor.
Ebbs and Flows: Resources are vital to your survival. Venture into zombie-filled villages, flooded sewers and haunting temple-ruins for precious gear, supplies and food to survive.
Fight To Survive: Wild animals and evil monsters would like you as their next meal. To overcome the dangers of this world in turn-based combat, you have to weigh all options and tools at your disposal.
The Right Tool: Easily learn the game's symbols with the Nearby list on screen or explore the game's items, monsters, objects and associated symbols in the built-in Codex.
A Moody Place: Get transported into the game's world by its soundscapes and unique graphics, brought to life by the game's custom 3D engine.
With your support I am able to deliver an update with new content, features and improvements every Friday. I also create videos to explain the changes, streams for more in-depth discussions, Shorts to reach more players and a daily progress log on the game's website. You can find all the links in the sidebar.
Share your thoughts and ideas using any of the socials in the sidebar to help shape the game. A good number of features in the game were suggested by members of the community!
New mechanics and smaller features will be introduced throughout the timeline.
Sep 2026: Mountain Region
Dec 2026: Fourth Region
Feb 2027: Ending Region
2027: Continued expansion of the game

"That narrow, broken path through the trees there. Snakes all the way deep into the kingdom." The old man looks at you. "Rubble and curses are all that's left there. Some other went there long ago. Looked just like you. Best you find something else." He grows silent, his eyes fixed beyond the trees.
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Fun game. I like how the pixels look.
This game is so brutal in the beginning, but gets much more manageable once you can recognize different objects. Spikes were (and still are) my greatest enemy, but they get much more easier to manage and avoid once you slow down and start noticing what they look like, I have extremely high hopes for this game and I am very excited to see how this game progresses!
This game is so much fun, props to the developer. A mobile version would be an absolute dream so I could play at work as well 😅
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Languages: English
Hours played at review time, across 27 reviews with recorded playtime.
It took me an hour to realize I could sneak, and another to realize it avoids the turrets. Don't make my mistake - keep creepin'! Elsewise, the environment is comfy and the aesthetic immaculate. Very excited to see where this goes.
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i suspect this game has a lot of features to come, so i wont comment much to the current gameplay but an early impression, honestly an unreal reimagination of the OG rogue, the visual depth is everything here imo, along with all the other visual cues: a nice level of subtle without being too flashy as is expected with modern UX no yellow paint, no hints, just an optional mechanics overview tutorial i thought the characters being letters would be confusing from the store pics, but actually isn't too bad ingame aside from getting confused about grass fighting back when im not paying enough attention lol, not noticing the snake spawn in the handcrafted world is awesome, the idea of coming across strangely familiar areas across different paths is a pretty awesome concept looking forward to the full release
I was able to complete version 0.51 in 12 hours and thoroughly enjoyed it. I am highly anticipating version 1.0 and hope to see extensive content updates. It was a truly immersive and hypnotic experience for me; I particularly appreciated the atmosphere, the simple tactical mechanics, and the progressive learning curve.
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