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.
A glimpse
Visions surface from the dark and sink back: the souls you may lead, and the things that wait below.
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.
Dungeon under the city · Three levels · Trial of the body
Somariel's primary dungeon: a three-level mine-catacomb bored into the body of the world. Leave the streets, pass the gatekeeper, and descend floor by floor through restless dead and raw stone. Every torch buys a few more squares of certainty - and something at the bottom has been touched by what leaks down the Path.
In the dark under Somariel - fight or flee.
Body · Mind · Spirit
The dark settles on the summit of Mount Skala and creeps ever downward. The cities higher on the Path have fallen silent - glimpsed, not yet reached. The alpha begins at Somariel, at the foot of the climb.
Spirit · Aether
"Marble and light, fading from the world. The summit of Mount Skala, where the dark will not lift."
The heights awaitMind · Wind & Water
"A high city of bridges and mist, where half the streets are lies."
Not yet reachedBody · Earth
"Lit now - but the dark pushes harder the moment it senses resistance. You begin here."
Playable nowEach city lights up as the journey is built. The site ascends as the game does.
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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