A brutal isometric pixel ARPG

The river of souls has stopped. The dead can no longer cross, so they stayed. You are the Exile, thrown into the Sunken Crypt with a lantern that burns a stolen soul.

Gameplay trailer

Wounded deep, the Ferryman lets the darkness fall; your lamp is the last light on the landing.

Every spell is light

The crypts are dark. Your fireballs, the braziers, the loot on the floor and the drifting souls light every pixel as they pass. Past the edge of the light, the dead are waiting.

The Bone Canal's horde hall: a hundred and more of the dead at once, and one lamp.

Mow them down

Hundreds of the dead fill the screen at once. Every hit lands with a stop, a shake and a body breaking apart. Clear a hall and the floor is covered in loot.

Chain lightning forks through the horde; runes trigger skills that trigger more.

Runes make the build

Every skill has four rune sockets. Split a fireball into five, make it fork, make the dead explode and the explosions kill more. Trigger runes cast a linked skill on a kill, a crit, a hit or a step, and that skill can carry triggers of its own.

A build come together: a kill casts the nova, the nova casts the fireball, every corpse bursts into flame.

The Soul Tide

Every kill drops soul fire. Fill the bar and loose it: for eight seconds every skill echoes, nothing costs mana, and the tide ends in a burst of every soul you gathered.

The horde breaks and its gifts rain down, each rarity its own pillar of light.

Loot you can hear

Each rarity has its own beam of light and its own note. Legendaries bend the rules: The Ferryman's Lamp makes every kill during a tide extend it.

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The Bone-Crowned Ferryman, He Who Ferries No More, waits at the landing of the river that stopped. Endless mode: the long night, wave after growing wave, until it swallows you. The crossing is yours: the run's end tallies the dead and lays out its best finds.
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Coming soon to Steam

  • Two dungeons to the Ferry Landing, and the Bone-Crowned Ferryman who guards it
  • Nine skills, twenty-one runes, legendary items and a passive tree with keystones
  • The Endless Hall: push your build until the dark swallows it
  • Keyboard and mouse or gamepad

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