A dark-fantasy survivor roguelike
Twenty minutes until dawn. Let the fire fall.
The fire is out and the woods are waking up. You only move: your spells cast themselves, every level-up is a choice, and by the last minutes you are a storm of fire, frost and steel carving through hundreds of monsters.
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PC (Windows) on Steam first. Controller and Steam Deck friendly. iOS and Android planned.
Captured in the game engine, no mock-ups. The full trailer arrives with the Steam page.
Gameplay capture: a late-night horde in the Ashen Wilds.
Easy to pick up, deep enough to chase one more run. Scroll through a night.
00:00
Every skill casts itself. Your job is positioning, reading the horde and picking the right card at every level-up.
04:00
Up to four cards, and a reroll when the draw is bad. Five skill slots, and every pick pushes your build toward a school of magic.
09:00
Max out a skill, own its catalyst, and the next chest Awakens it. Fireball becomes Ashfall, a rain of meteors. Lightning becomes Stormcaller.
12:00
Relics show up on your hunter: armor, blades, cloaks and charms change how you look as well as how you fight.
15:00
Thirteen bosses across three lands, each with shaped, telegraphed spells to dodge. A banner and a marker at the edge of the screen show where each one rises, and every boss you slay drops a chest.
20:00
Survive the twenty minutes and the night is yours: the next Ember unlocks. Or stay in the dark and see how long you last.
13 events
Each run draws 3 to 5 events from its land, so no two nights play the same. Some turn the horde against you, some bend the rules, and some offer a deal you may regret.
Each land has an event of its own that never happens anywhere else.
Omen · Ashen Wilds
The sky bleeds. The horde drinks, and so do you.
Monsters move faster and regenerate. Kills drop blood orbs, and your life steal doubles.
Omen · Drowned Marsh
The mire exhales. Only their eyes show.
Fog hides monsters until they are close, and your aim cannot find them. Area and fire spells burn it away.
Threat · Bone Catacombs
The bells toll, and the dead do not stay down.
Monsters that die rise once as frail skeletons. Shadow damage and Hex keep them down.
Ten more can come in any land.
Threat
Every beast wears a crown tonight.
Every monster near you becomes an elite for a minute, worth more XP and gold. Rare, and only late in the night.
Omen
The sun goes out. Shadow and blood answer.
Your spells recharge 30% slower, but Shadow and Blood damage is 50% stronger.
Omen
The fire closes in. Inside it, you burn brighter.
A ring of fire closes around you: your damage doubles inside it, and crossing it burns you.
Opportunity
A relic waits on the stone. The stone wants something back.
Stand on the altar to claim a rare relic, and the curse rises for the rest of the run.
Opportunity
A phantom cart rolls through, and it carries a chest.
Destroy the cart and its chest is yours. It does not wait, and its guards are fast.
Opportunity
A stall opens in the dark. Coin for power, now or never.
A heal, extra rerolls or a skill level, for the gold you carry. The stall closes in seconds.
Opportunity
Embers fall like stars. Catch them.
Each ember you catch burns the monsters around you and makes your fire hotter for a few seconds.
Threat
Light on the horizon. The horde flees... for now.
For 15 seconds monsters flee and no wave comes. Then a larger horde arrives.
Threat
Everything comes at once.
A massive wave of monsters pours in from every side.
Omen
Black clouds swallow the light.
A dark storm closes in, and you can barely see past your own light.
Every event is announced with a banner, and a marker at the edge of the screen points to the altar, the stall or the caravan. A daily or weekly challenge draws the same events for everyone.
Each land has its own monsters, its own bosses and its own music. What hunts you in the marsh never sets foot in the catacombs.
Land I
Ash-grey heath, burnt groves and ruined chapels under a cold moon. Goblin Slingers hurl burning coals where you are running and Demons spit brimstone: circling is not enough.
Bosses
Some of its monsters
Skeleton · Goblin · Goblin Slinger · Orc · Demon · Vampire · Dragon
Its own event
Blood Rain: the horde runs faster and heals, and so do you.
Land II
A black, flooded fen under low fog. Sickly lanterns burn over the pools and the shallows drag at every step.
Bosses
Some of its monsters
Mire Leech · Reed Stalker · Drowned Husk · Mire Siren · Brood Toad
Its own event
Marsh Fog: only their eyes show until fire burns the fog away.
Land III
An ossuary under the chapel: limestone halls, walls of skulls, candle shrines and soulfire braziers in the dark.
Bosses
Some of its monsters
Bone Archer · Revenant · Crypt Banshee · Tomb Ghoul · Bone Colossus
Its own event
Requiem Bells: the bells toll and the dead rise again.
Thirteen bosses, each bound to its land, each with spells you learn to read. Pick one.
Land: Ashen Wilds
The Burning Terror
Spells
The red shape on the ground is the warning: step out before it lands.
Ashen Wilds
Drowned Marsh
Bone Catacombs
Each hunter starts with their own skill, a passive and a different body of stats. Unlock them one at a time, each with a feat of its own.
Last of the Ember Watch
A hooded hunter who walks the burnt roads alone, rune-saber low, scarf still smouldering.
Ash-Mother of Emberfall
She swings a censer of coals and sings the dead to flame. The ash obeys her.
The Wall That Does Not Thaw
A knight in rime-crusted plate who swore to hold the pass until the last winter.
She Who Hears the Thunder
Blindfolded, she reads the storm instead of the road, and the sky answers when she calls.
Mistress of the Crimson Court
An exiled duelist with a silver rapier and a pendant of blood-glass that is never empty.
Keeper of the Last Lantern
A gravedigger-priest with a lantern-headed spade. What he buries does not stay down.
Pick up to five skills and level them up. Stack a school of magic to wake its Resonance. Then Awaken your maxed skills into something monstrous.
A maxed skill plus its catalyst: the next chest turns it into its Awakened form. Flip a card to Awaken it.
Plus eight more to discover in the Codex.
Seven schools, three tiers each
Every skill and relic belongs to a school. Stack one and it resonates: at 3, 5 and 7 points its status effect grows into the spine of your build. Burns that spread and explode, frost that shatters, storms that call the sky down.
Status effect
BurnBurn: 15% of the hit as damage per second for 2.0 s.
Resonance tiers
Skills of this school
Fireball
Explosive Aura
Cinder Ray
Ash Hounds
Kindled SoulStatus effect
Chill, then FreezeChill: −8% speed per stack; 5 stacks freeze for 0.8 s.
Resonance tiers
Skills of this school
Ice Spear
Frost Nova
Rime Breath
Winter's PatienceStatus effect
ShockShock: the next hit deals +20% damage.
Resonance tiers
Skills of this school
Lightning Bolt
Swift Feet
Thunder TotemStatus effect
BleedBleed: 4% of the hit per second per stack, up to 5 stacks.
Resonance tiers
Skills of this school
Bloodlust
Vampiric Aura
Sanguine Tether
Crimson FontStatus effect
SunderSunder: +3% damage taken per stack, up to 5 stacks.
Resonance tiers
Skills of this school
Throwing Knife
Iron Skin
Critical Mastery
Iron Snare
Reaper's Crescent
War HornStatus effect
HexHex: +10% damage taken for 4.0 s.
Resonance tiers
Skills of this school
Grave LanternsAsh HoundsReaper's Crescent
Shadow VeilStatus effect
StaggerStagger: knocked back and stunned for 0.25 s.
Resonance tiers
Skills of this school
Shockwave
Grave SpikesWar HornPoints: 1 for each skill or relic of the school, 2 for a skill at max level or Awakened, and 1 from your hunter if it is their school.
Win a night and the next Ember unlocks: tougher monsters, earlier elites, weaker healing. One number to brag about.
Keep fighting past twenty minutes until the Pale Reaper, which cannot be killed, catches you. Chase your longest night.
The same seed, hunter, land and mutators for everyone. Local scoreboards today, Steam leaderboards planned.
Bank your gold win or lose, buy permanent upgrades in the Armory, and fill the Codex with every monster, relic and Awakening you meet.
All captured in the game. Select a screenshot to see it larger.
Store badges show platforms, not links. The Steam page link goes live with the announcement.
Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit. Tuned to hold 60 FPS with hundreds of monsters on screen.
Full gamepad play with Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo and Steam Deck button prompts. Steam Deck verification is planned before launch.
Phone versions are planned after the PC launch. They are not in development yet, so there is no date.
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Japanese and Simplified Chinese.
UI scale, colorblind modes, high contrast, reduce motion, camera shake off, large cursor and rebindable controls. Visual sound cues are on by default, and every boss and event gets a banner and an off-screen marker.
Languages other than English and Brazilian Portuguese are being reviewed by native speakers before launch.
A single-player survivor-like (also called bullet heaven) with roguelike progression. You steer your hunter, your skills attack on their own, and you survive waves of monsters for twenty minutes until dawn.
There is no release date yet. The Steam page comes first: wishlisting it is the best way to hear about the launch. The price will be announced with the release date.
PC (Windows) on Steam comes first. The game is built for controllers and the Steam Deck, and Deck verification is planned before launch. Mobile versions for iOS and Android are planned for later: they are not in development yet, so there is no date. Consoles are not announced.
Up to twenty minutes, and you can pause at any time. Endless mode lets you keep going past the twenty-minute mark for as long as you outrun the Pale Reaper.
With feats, one per run. Win a hunt in the Ashen Wilds and the Drowned Marsh opens; win in the Marsh and the Bone Catacombs follow. Each hunter has a feat of its own, like slaying the Bog Mother with the Pyre Witch. At most one new hunter or land unlocks per run, so there is always a next goal.
Not at launch. Ignisfall is single-player and plays fully offline. Local co-op is an idea for later, not a promise.
No. Chests and rerolls use gold earned in the game, and gold cannot be bought.
Yes. You may stream the game and monetize your videos. A credit or a link to the Steam page is appreciated.
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Links go live with the Steam page announcement.
