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Lead a custom party through ink-drawn dungeons, building characters and arranging a shared skill grid for pauseable real-time fights.
Released 13 Jun 2025
Arrange Nine Party Skills
Pause Mid-Battle
Explore Ink-Drawn Dungeons
Dive deep into the Abyss.
Developed by Suzuki Suzuzou · Published by Suzuki Suzuzou





You are an adventurer drawn to a ruin in East Weltden after reports of terrifying monsters and the disappearance of an investigation team. Explore a vast dungeon and smaller surrounding dungeons in search of their mysteries and the deepest levels.
Move through first-person, grid-based dungeons, uncover routes and encounters, and collect equipment. Staying in the depths raises dungeon conditions that can improve loot, adding rewards as you decide how long to press on.
Build and equip your party by developing abilities, stats, and skills. Combat runs in real time but can be paused; a shared three-by-three panel limits which skills are available, while their placement affects party positioning, enemy targeting, and skill synergies.
Reviewers often enjoy the distinctive real-time combat, where arranging a shared skill grid makes party setup and tactical responses matter. Many also appreciate experimenting with character builds and equipment, the monochrome artwork, and the soundtrack. Some say the system takes time to understand or feels restrictive, while item appraisal and the postgame grind are recurring frustrations.
Path of the Abyss is a single-player, grid-based dungeon exploration RPG.
You explore dungeons expressed in black-and-white pen drawings with your freely customized character and aim for the deepest level.
・First person RPG
・Real-time Combat that can be paused at any moment
・Diverse Character Builds
・Many mysteries and loot to be uncovered in dungeons
Combat operates in real time.
You can pause at any time so analyze your enemy’s attacks, buff your allies, intercept enemy attacks and deploy a wide range of tactics to gain an advantage.
You will be able to see what the enemy intends on doing. It is important to react with the appropriate skills.
Basically, you want to…
1. Pause and see how the enemy intends to attack.
2. Choose the appropriate skills.
3. Unpause.
Combat will be done by repeating these steps.
Skills you want to use in combat will be set into the “Formation Panel” formed by 9 panels, prior to combat.
The outcome of combat will be affected greatly by the skills and the position of the skills you place on the Formation Panel.
The Formation Panel will be shared by the party, a unique feature of this game is to come up with ways to use the limited number panels you have.
You can build a character by customizing 8 abilities, 5 basic stats, skills and gear.
You build the party by setting up skills of the characters into the Formation Panel.
Some skills have synergistic effects, and the Formation Panel should be set up so that the skills complement each other.
In Path of the Abyss, you explore a world comprised by one giant dungeon and several minor dungeons.
Uncover the mysteries of the dungeons, strengthen your characters and make it to the the deepest depths of the dungeon.
A small ruin in East Weltden.
In a forgotten ruin that has been robbed countless times, sightings of terrifying monsters became frequent.
Some scoffed at the sightings as mere rumors, and ventured into the ruins to boast of their intrepidity, only to never return.
The Lord of East Weltden dispatched an investigation team but it only resulted in a bloodbath.
Rumors of this ruin traveled far and wide, luring skilled adventurers to the land.
You are such an adventurer yourself.
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| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 10 |
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| Controller required | No |