These notes detail the game as a whole rather than a patch. The last public build predates most of the game, so future patch notes will list changes against this one.
Run Structure
One region, procedurally reassembled every run from handcrafted rooms along a paced route. "Encounter" rooms seal their exits on entry and reopen on clear.
The boss door stays sealed until you hold enough "keystones", obtained from encounters.
Environmental hazards: spikes, acid.
Runs take about 20 minutes; the build holds about 3–5 hours of content today.
The Boss
Multi-phase fight
Talks before, during, and after combat.
Conversations change with every win and every loss. Win multiple times to progress the story.
Environmental Mana
Mana is a world-space grid, not a resource bar. Casting drains a region around you.
Drained cells recover gradually.
Cast power is proportional to the mana drained, including damage, recoil, and knockback. Casting in drained areas produces weak spells or nothing.
Enemy casters draw from the same mana grid. Drained areas affect them too.
The HUD mana orb indicates the field at your position.
Fourteen Spell Abilities
Charge casts drain mana while held and fire on release or at full charge. A double jump refunds partial charge mid-cast.
Every spell also has a passive enchantment half (e.g. Ghostflame's Flame Shield, Teleport's Blink).
4 active slots + 8 enchantment slots. A spell in an active slot gives you its cast. In an enchantment slot it gives you its passive instead.
The practice range lets you edit the full loadout freely.
Some spells are negatable and can cancel opposing spells on contact.
Spell
Cast
Effect
Firebolt
Instant
Projectile
Ball Lightning
Instant
Projectile
Acid Splash
Instant
Thrown
Shockwave
Instant
Area burst
Dash
Instant
Self movement
Charge Beam
Charge
Beam
Ghostflame
Charge
Area projectile
Ice Storm
Charge
Area
Heal
Charge
Self heal
Teleport
Charge
Self movement
Wisp Summons
Charge
Summon
Fly
Channel
Self movement
Mend
Channel
Self heal
Invisibility
Toggle
Self de-aggro
In-Run Progression
Spell scrolls spawn in pairs. Pick one, and place it into an active spell slot or passive enchantment slot.
Spell shop
Glyph shop: rolled offers from 48 glyphs — 16 effects across three tiers (Glyph / Greater / Supreme).
Pact shop: one-time max-health purchases
Pact
Health
Pact of the Cockroach
+50
Pact of the Armadillo
+100
Pact of the Tortoise
+200
Pact of the Tardigrade
+500
Currencies
Gloom — drops in-run, banks to your profile when the run ends. Victory or death, it counts.
Mana Nodes — in-run currency for the three run shops. Does not leave the run with you.
Keystones — one per cleared encounter; they open the boss door.
Combat
Attacks give damage-number feedback.
Damage reduction, heal boost, and other buffs
Spell and glyph properties include damage over time, knockback, caster recoil, homing, ricochet, and projectile acceleration
Healing past max health grants overhealth, shown on the health bar.
Movement
Base kit: run, jump, double jump, crawl
Grand Hall unlocks (Gloom): floor slide, wall slide, wall jump.
The Grand Hall
Two meta shops: Movement (abilities above) and Armor (four purchasable max-health tiers)
3 save slots, each with independent unlocks, stats, and story state.
Practice Arena
Every castable spell, every movement ability, one of each enemy, live loadout editing.
Optional enemy spawner.
The free demo is this arena.
Enemies
Four families in the region — wisps, lurkers, totems, keepers — plus the boss.
Caster enemies obey the mana field.
Enemies, the boss, and the occasional sign emit ambient dialogue.
Interface
HUD: health bar with overhealth, boss health bar, mana orb, 4 spell slots, Keystone counter, Gloom and Node balances, run stopwatch, targeting reticle
Menus: pause (continue / restart / inventory / options / main menu / quit), inventory on Tab, end-of-run stats, save slot manager, settings, controls reference, credits.
Audio
Music switches states entering and leaving combat.
Spell audio sometimes depends on cast power.
Settings, Platforms, Performance
Settings: fullscreen / windowed / borderless, VSync, FPS cap, master / music / SFX volume, mute.
Platforms: Windows, macOS (Intel + Apple Silicon), Linux. 64-bit only, Vulkan (Metal on macOS), .NET runtime bundled.
Internal render at 640x360, integer-crisp, scaled to any window. Physics at 144 ticks/second.
Install size roughly 200–375 MB depending on platform.
Full keyboard + mouse support. Controller buttons are mapped; see known issues.
Known Issues
Controller: all actions are bound, but currently untested.
Balance: numbers will move frequently
There are several bug reports on our Discord already.
Updates every 2–4 weeks. Patch notes post here and in the Discord.