Ashen Testament

[h2]A roguelite where your choices shape the world around you.[/h2] You are the Custodian of a living book. Your Bearer carries it down the road to the Black Gate, through three countries of servants who want what is written in it. Fast blade-and-gun combat, a branching road of fights and choices, and a world that remembers every death. [h2]Every death is written down[/h2] When a Bearer falls, the book answers with a [b]Decree[/b], a new law the world must obey on the next run. Then someone else picks it up: a stranger with a trade, or the kin of the one who fell, carrying something of theirs. The names of the dead go up on the Wall of the Fallen. The foe that killed you gets a name too, and it will be waiting. [h2]Win, and the next Bearer comes for you[/h2] Reach the Black Gate and take the seat, and your Bearer becomes the [b]Ruler[/b]. Your statue goes up. Your weapons become theirs to face. The next Bearer has to cut through the reign you built. [h2]Blade in one hand, something worse in the other[/h2] [list] [*][b]25 weapons[/b] for two hands: sabres and scythes, pistols and slings, censer-flails, shears, zweihanders [*][b]121 Testaments[/b] to write into the book, with resonances that wake when you build toward them, and 12 fusions [*]Dash through a blow to slip it, and read each foe's wind-up before it lands [/list] [h2]Three countries, and everything in them[/h2] [list] [*][b]39 kinds of foe[/b], all drawn from every side: candle-headed monks, paper hounds, misprints that split in two, a Bell-Widow who will not stop ringing [*]Five bosses, each with its own pattern to learn [*]Rival factions that fight each other, and you [*]113 road events, a stall of strange goods, Oaths to swear for greater rewards [/list] [h2]A book that explains itself[/h2] Hover over any of the book's words for a plain meaning. When you die, a page tells you what killed you and what to try next time. Plenty of comfort options, too: screen shake, head bob, flashes, field of view. [h2]Features[/h2] [list] [*]Hand-drawn pixel art in a first-person world [*]Permadeath runs with a succession that carries on [*]Choices that change the laws, the people and the road [*]28 achievements and leaderboards [*]Steam Cloud saves [/list]