Planned Release Date: Q1 2025

About This Game

In this roguelike bullet-heaven, Earth has been consumed by an ancient eldritch god. Form a customizable squad of survivors and explore decaying, metroidvania-inspired worlds trapped within the god’s belly. Battle endless waves of nightmarish creatures, extract resources, rescue survivors, uncover forbidden knowledge, and search for a way out.

Portals powered by ancient eldritch forces link worlds and realities, forming a tangled web. With a limited oxygen supply, your squad has just 20 minutes to navigate the portal network, jumping from world to world in search of the one escape route. Can you escape the void in time?

A small band of survivors has established a settlement on one of the last remnants of Earth, floating in the void. Choose three from a large roster to form your squad. Each survivor wields a unique main weapon with upgrade trees and specific stat bonuses. Promote one to lead the squad to gain access to their special ability for that expedition.

Not all survivors are brave enough to adventure out and will support you in other ways. They will upgrade equipment, enhance physical abilities, and offer tasks. Rescue new survivors on expeditions to expand the settlement and unlock more powerful upgrades. But remember, plans rarely survive first contact with an eldritch god. Be ready to adapt!

Each world is ruled by a great old one, whose influence warps the land. Explore these worlds to find NPCs, exotic loot, puzzles, and hidden areas. But beware—the denizens won’t welcome you. Survive waves of increasingly twisted creatures, and collect the otherworldly “Morphite” they drop to upgrade equipment and temporarily grow stronger. Find artifacts and lost equipment to gear out your squad, augmenting your strategy as you progress deeper.

If you're overwhelmed, escape through the nearest portal to return home with your loot. However, if you die on an expedition, your loot is dropped where you fall. You'll have to return on the next run to retrieve it—or it will be lost forever.

Features:

• Variety of Characters: Experiment with squad compositions across a wide cast of unlockable survivors, each with unique abilities and upgradeable weapons.

• Secondary Weapons: Find unique weapons during expeditions that shake up your strategy as they evolve.

• Modules: Equip modules of various rarities to augment your stats and playstyle.

• Settlement Growth: Expand your base to unlock new vendors, tasks, and powerful meta-progression upgrades.

• Tasks: Complete tasks for NPCs to earn rewards like resources, characters, and equipment.

• Hand-Crafted Worlds: Each world is uniquely designed, filled with NPCs, vendors, places of power, loot, hidden areas, and unique bosses.

• Extraction: Retreat to the settlement with your loot, or risk losing it all. If you die, you’ll have to retrieve your dropped loot on your next run—or it’s gone forever!

• Easy to Learn, Hard to Master: Quick to jump into, with depth in character interactions, weapons, and modules that reveal themselves over time.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Eldritch Escape features horror themes that may be frightening for younger audiences, fantasy violence, and stylized blood splatter.