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Choose a fallen hero, dodge through horde-filled dark-fantasy runs, build class skills, and face bosses with distinct attacks.
Released 28 Oct 2024
Dodge Horde Attacks
Fight Mechanic Bosses
Build Six Heroes
Delve into Keeper’s Toll, an action-packed roguelite brimming with challenge and despair. Survive against an onslaught of relentless hordes and grueling bosses with skill-based ARPG gameplay. Embrace the darkness and cleanse these cursed lands.
Developed by Stingbot Games · Published by Stingbot Games, Doyoyo Games
Themes from a helpfulness-selected sample of Steam reviews, not the aggregate Steam score.
Keeper’s Toll casts you as a fallen hero in a retro dark-fantasy world overrun by enemies. Choose from six heroes, each with distinct abilities and a dedicated progression tree, and advance through a main quest.
In each run, fight waves of enemies while moving and dodging incoming attacks. Gain skills and upgrades as you go, take on challenges, visit merchants, and battle bosses with their own attack patterns and mechanics.
Runs also feature curses that add negative effects, while surviving and completing runs advances hero talents and shared progression. Build out each hero’s skills over time and take on tougher challenges.
Positive reviews often highlight the distinctive hero abilities and playstyles, pixel art, and dark-fantasy atmosphere. Some players enjoy the active dodging and boss fights as a change of pace from other survivor-style games, while others like the short runs and gradual character progression. Praise is mixed with recurring complaints about balance, repetition, and limited content.
Arise, fallen hero! Enter Keeper's Toll, an action-packed roguelite set within a retro-infused dark fantasy world that demands skill and courage. Every moment could be your last, but with each setback, you grow stronger. Seize the challenge, overcome daunting foes, and purge a callous world through a methodical genre-bending experience.
Keeper’s Toll places a heavy focus on skill-based gameplay with ARPG elements. Each run allows you to study your enemies and hone your skills while progressing through the main quest. Once you have mastered the basics, Keeper’s Toll introduces unique enemy archetypes, intricate bosses, and fresh mechanics that will challenge any worthy hero.
Keeper's Toll features 6 unique risen heroes: the Shadow Monk, Pyromancer, Blood Maiden, Necromancer, Ranger, and Bogatyr. Each hero has their own specialized game-defining mechanics, as well as completely unique abilities and progression trees.
Ferocious bosses and cutthroat invaders lie at the heart of Keeper’s Toll and its perilous lands. All of the bosses, mini bosses, and invaders you will encounter feature their own unique battle mechanics and twists on the core gameplay. Overcoming the bosses requires a keen sense of strategy, so strengthen your character with purpose or suffer a swift end to your journey.
Unique genre blend between horde survival and ARPG with a touch of souls-like
Skill-based gameplay designed to be approached methodically
Custom character classes featuring their own progression trees, unique abilities and playstyles
Destructive boss encounters with intricate designs, mechanics, and gameplay twists
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 50 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
| Website | Official website |
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