Gloamreach

How to play

• An expedition has four floors. Each floor is a map of chambers connected in layers: you choose which door to take on the way to the Vigil (a rest) and the boss.
• Every door shows what lies behind it: battle, dangerous chamber, elite, treasure, shop, encounter, shrine, challenge, prisoner or cursed altar, and the reward the chamber pays.
• In a battle chamber the doors lock until every wave is defeated. Every enemy warns before it strikes (a flash, a mark on the ground): dash at that moment, since you take no damage while dashing.
• Healing flasks are limited; they refill when you rest at the Vigil or through some services. Health doesn’t regenerate on its own.
• Relics last the whole expedition and stack; of gear you carry one weapon, armor, amulet and ring, plus up to three spare pieces in your satchel.
• If your health hits zero, the expedition ends. The embers gathered, quests completed and everything discovered in the Codex are kept.
• Each floor hides a cracked wall: a bomb or an area hit opens it. Three pale shards open the Abyss’s Pale Door and the true ending.

Controls

Move

WASD or arrows · virtual joystick on touch screens · gamepad left stick

Aim and attack

Mouse and left click (or J, with auto-aim) · touch attack button · right stick and A

Dash

Space or Shift · dash button · B

Skills

Q and R (right click casts the first) · skill buttons · X and Y

Interact, flask, item

E, F and G · small buttons · RB, LB and LT

Map, gear and pause

M or Tab, I, Esc or P · top-right buttons

Description

Gloamreach is a real-time dungeon roguelite with a dark-fantasy look. You go down as a lightbearer, cross four seeded floors (the Ossuary, the Weeping Wood or the Hollow Mines, the Ashen Citadel or the Drowned Sanctum, and the Abyss) and fight a boss at the end of each one.

Every expedition is different: the seed decides the map, the chambers, the enemies and the loot. What you find on the way —relics, weapons, armor, amulets, rings and consumables— combines into builds with real synergies. If you fall, the embers you gathered go back to the Last Lantern camp and pay for permanent upgrades.

Gloamreach is a real-time dark-fantasy dungeon roguelite: four seeded floors, nine classes, dozens of relics that combine into builds, bosses with phases and a camp that grows with every expedition. Everything is saved only on your device.