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Choose a hero, fight through changing Dark Citadel dungeons, and bring gear and resources back to grow your town and power up.
Released 14 Jan 2025
Build Your Town
Choose Class Specializations
Enchant Hero Gear
A rogue-lite action-rpg that offers extensive persistent progression. Build your town, upgrade and equip your heroes, before taking on the ever-changing Dark Citadel - either solo or with a team of friends.
Developed by Crackshell · Published by Team17
Play as a hero venturing into the Dark Citadel, alone or with up to three other players. Fight through enemies, traps, and bosses as you explore dungeon floors whose layouts change between runs.
Choose from seven classes, each with specializations that add abilities and passives. During a run, collect temporary trinkets and upgrades; between runs, equip and enchant gear to shape your character’s build.
Bring resources back to town to build and upgrade facilities that support future expeditions. Character and account-wide progression carry across runs, and defeating the Citadel unlocks New Game+ with tougher enemies and further rewards.
Players who enjoy the game often praise its action combat, distinct classes, and the steady sense of growth from upgrading heroes and the town. Co-op is a recurring highlight, and some players enjoy experimenting with gear and builds across repeated runs. Other reviews find that the grind and familiar layouts make later play feel repetitive, and opinions differ on the pacing and balance.
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A rogue-lite action-rpg brimming with randomly generated levels, deep customization, and rich persistent progression. Battle your way through the perilous Dark Citadel, collecting powerful equipment and trinkets that unlock game-changing upgrades and abilities. This unique mix of permanent equipment in the style of action-rpgs along with run defining rewards from its rogue-lite roots results in a compelling experience where you are sure to get something new out of every run, always progressing in some way, with no two runs the same.
Return from your expeditions to upgrade your town, enchant gear, and unlock new upgrades for your character. Build a thriving hub to support your adventures and shape your play style in countless ways.
And when you've conquered the Citadel, the challenge isn't over — New Game+ offers endless progression, tougher enemies, and ever more powerful rewards to keep the adventure alive.
7 Unique Classes: Start as a Warrior, Paladin, Ranger, or Wizard, and unlock the Rogue, Warlock, and Sorcerer through gameplay.
Each class offers 3 specializations, introducing new abilities and passives.
Endless Replayability: Explore 8 distinct, randomly generated floor types, each teeming with unique enemies, traps, and challenges.
Town Building: Upgrade your town to unlock run-enhancing NPCs, stash items, and customize your adventure.
Dynamic Gear System: Equip enchantable weapons and gear to craft and upgrade your perfect build and explore varied play styles.
An Abundance of Unlocks: Find blueprints that unlock new enchants for your equipment, attunements for permanently upgrading trinkets you find, and drinks to modify runs.
Infinite Progression: New Game+ ensures endless gameplay with increasing difficulty, better gear, greater buffs, and unlimited leveling opportunities.
Team Up: Enjoy online multiplayer with up to 4 players—tackle the Dark Citadel together!
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 37 |
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| Players | 1–4 |
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| Multiplayer | The game supports single-player and online co-op. Official store text states online multiplayer for up to 4 players, and reviews consistently describe cooperative play with friends, public lobbies, friend-only lobbies, and rejoining online sessions after disconnects. No provided text confirms any PvP modes. |
| Multiplayer & mods | Reviews mention mods that add content, but do not state specific multiplayer effects. Multiple reviews also mention console commands or ini edits that can raise the multiplayer limit beyond the official 4-player support; this is user-modified or unofficial behavior, not confirmed as standard support. |
| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
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