Cowboys, we appreciate that you’ve moseyed over to check out our game. By blending roguelike dungeon crawler with an open world time loop, we’re really trying to do something that hasn’t been done before.

Our plan is to launch the game in early access next year. There’s still a lot to make so we’d like your opinions and feedback. 

At the start of the game, a mysterious gang kidnaps your daughter. They kill you, but you respawn 10 years later. She was taken into the giant pillar and inside, you find a winding maze in an abandoned gold mine. 

This makes up the first dungeon of the game. At the end of a dungeon, you’ll encounter one of the gang members. Through a peculiar transformation, they turn into a suped up bossfight that evokes a classic arcade game. We revealed Long Arms in the initial trailer. 

Long Arms isn’t just based on Snake, though. Each boss mixes some sort of external theme with an arcade game. In his intro, you can see that he sits on a wooden throne as the King of the Gnomes. Those gnomes prepare him with caramel and a maraschino cherry to lure the enormous underground serpent. 

Another boss we’re working on is a bit more flamboyant. Flamenco is Bantonio Anderas’ long-lost brother. Born to a musical family and bound to music itself - the Pillar twisted his mind and now he plays forever.

Fitting for a boss based on dancing arcade games. You'll need to avoid avoid a crescendo of arrow pads and get past Flamenco's dancing troupe to win.

We will be opening the first playtests for the game very soon! Sign up on the main Steam page to be one of the first people to ever play Erosion. 

We’ll share more news about the playtest when it’s ready, but we hope you have Happy Holidays and cherish the time you still have left. 

You may wondering how our game can be so many clever gaming buzzwords: "roguelike", "open world", "time-loop" and "choices matter". Well have no fear, we have some explainin' to do! You can watch this dev walkthrough video that shows one small example where dungeons, open world, timelines and choices all intertwine.

In EROSION, each death costs a decade. You’ll take on dystopian dungeons in the depths and a spaghetti western overworld but while most roguelikes bring you back to the beginning when you die, each attempt moves time forward and the world above erodes with it. Can you save your daughter before she grows old and passes away?

Erosion blends a dungeon crawling roguelike with an open world where your choices matter.

Each life, you’ll choose to take another run at a procedural dungeon, or explore the handcrafted wild west overworld. Whether it’s dying to the monsters in the dungeons or to angry poker players, death will make time move forward.

The landscape will erode and your choices will impact the fate of the overworld. Did you help the villagers or the chicken cultists? Did you fight off the hovercraft raiders or the submarine zombies?

But it’s not just the world that ages, your kidnapped daughter gets older, too. If you make it to the end of a dungeon run, you’ll find that she has grown up. And if you’ve died too many times, she might be an old woman, or not alive at all.

And of course, succeeding in the dungeon or the overworld, both make you stronger in the other. Exploring both of them will unlock the ability to travel backwards in time. Then you can undo your previous choices, follow different branching paths, and ultimately, save your daughter and the world from their eroding timelines.

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