A retro 2.5D dungeon crawler. You move tile by tile, torch in hand, a party at your back.
The Tale
A world kept alive by the Light - which must be renewed each generation, or it fails. At the summit of Mount Skala, where it was last renewed, a darkness has settled that will not lift, and it creeps ever downward. The cities higher on the Path have fallen silent; day by day the color thins from the air, the tempests grow, and the light fades.
Somariel, at the foot of the climb, is barely touched - its hearths still burn, its skies still clear, its people still walk in daylight. But the dark is not blind: it answers those who rise against it. Gather your companions, steel your courage, and begin the long ascent into the gathering dark.
The first city · Body · Earth
The oldest, most solid city: quarried stone, foundries, healers' halls - lit and living when you arrive. House by house and street by street you earn your strength; beneath it all waits The Marrow, the multi-level dungeon that is the trial of the body. But the dark pushes harder the more you resist it: every dungeon cleared, the storms worsen, the streets dim, and the lamps burn lower.
From the street, weather and time of day change how the town looks and feels.
Snow in the square.
Faces of Somariel
Every hall and shop has a keeper. Speak with them, trade, heal, and learn what the city still remembers - before you take the gate down into the dark.
Abrahm at Abrahm's Hammer
Cutpurses, bone, and worse
The dark under Somariel is crowded. Street cutthroats and alley vermin near the surface; restless dead, hardened brigands, and stranger shapes the deeper the torch burns. Every fight is a read: range, number, and what they can do to you - before you spend the light you still have.
Cutpurses in the dark - steel before they cut yours.
A band from many
Over 1,100 unique portraits across every class, race, and more. No two parties alike, and each waits in shadow until the light finds it.
Take up the torch
The pre-release alpha is available now for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Light your torch. Walk Somariel. Descend into the Marrow. Closed playtest builds are invite-only and are not offered on this page.
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