RUNEBLADE

RUNEBLADE is a top-down action roguelike about holding a line that cannot be held. The demo is one arena — the Crypt. Ten minutes a run: the horde grows, the ground changes, and at the tenth minute the King walks out. Your blade strikes on its own. Aiming is not the skill here — position is. Every run you choose what to stand next to, what to walk away from, and which of the offered boons turns tonight's crowd into tomorrow's field of corpses. One path, one arena, one oath. - TEMPLAR — Oathbound Bulwark. Consecration: the ground itself burns what stands on it. - Clearing the Crypt opens the weapon gate — the meteor. The Crypt — cold stone under torchlight, where the oath begins. The Sanctum keeps what you bring back. Shards earned in a run are spent between runs on the Sanctum tree. The demo opens the trunk and the first node of each branch: armour, power, experience. Die on the third minute and you still leave stronger than you arrived. - Three stages per run, then the King. - Feats for the runs that go right — and for the ones that go spectacularly wrong. - Keyboard, mouse-drag or gamepad. Runs in English and Russian. - The other paths and arenas are in the full version.