Hold out against the night. Gather the shards. Come back stronger.
One hero, alone or with three friends, in the middle of a zone as the night comes in from every side. You only walk: your attacks and spells cast themselves. Every monster drops a shard, every level deals you a hand of new spells and blessings, a boss comes every two minutes, and the zone's master comes at ten.
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The heroes
Every hero of every people, each with their own attack, school of magic and the trait of their people. The rest open with gold, account levels, zone wins, achievements and a few secrets.
HumanGrand Justiciar Halden, the Dawn-Bearer
Sunrise Standard-Bearer
Spells their hand deals
Starts with Consecration: The ground round the hero burns the wicked.
Open from the start.
In the game
How it plays
Ninety-six heroes from every people of the world, twenty-seven open from the start. The rest open with gold, account levels, zone wins, achievements and a few secrets.
Forty-two spells in ten schools: fireballs and blizzards, chain lightning and orbiting hammers, roots, plague clouds and falling stars. Take six and rank each to five.
A dusk forest, a frozen pass, a burning waste, a night bog, a barrow-field and a stormy coast, each with its own horde, four bosses and a master to end the run.
Gold buys talents for every hero, bosses drop armour sets you wear into the next run, achievements buy perks like rerolls and a second wind.
Play online with up to three friends. One experience bar for the party, a hand of cards each, and you can raise a fallen friend by standing over them.
Win a zone to open the next and its harder difficulties, with tougher monsters and better gear.
The spells
Your hero's school comes up most in your hand, but any spell can. Take six, rank each to five, and let them cast themselves while you run.
The zones
A boss walks out every 2 minutes, and the zone's master comes at 10. Win a zone to open the next, and its Heroic and Mythic nights.
The Long Dusk
The sun will not set and the forest will not sleep. Wolves run with kobolds out of the brambles, spiders drop from the boughs, and the trolls of the hills come down to see what all the howling is about.
Old ThornhideBear of the Bramble
HexmawTroll Witch-Doctor
The BroodmotherQueen of the Boughs
Grumm the Twice-BornOgre Spell-LordWarlord GorrakLord of the Hill OgresOpen from the start.
The White Silence
Snow over the high pass, and under it the dead of an older war. The wolves have learned to hunt beside the bones, and something howls on the ridge that was a man once.
Old WhitemaneYeti of the High Pass
The Frost WardenRune-Bound Guardian
Rime-Knight HalvardOathbreaker of the Pass
Lady HoarfrostCountess of the RimeVael-KorThe Rime-WolfOpens when you win Thornwood Vale.
Where the Sky Burns
A waste of cinders under a red sky. Scorpions hunt the dunes, salamanders swim the hot ash, and the old wyrm that burned it all still sleeps beneath the ash. It will not sleep long.
The SandmotherMatriarch of the Dunes
Old CinderscaleSalamander of the Vents
The ShaperWarden of the Old FiresAshlord BrakkOgre Fire-CallerCinderwing the AncientThe Wyrm Beneath the AshOpens when you win Frostfang Pass.
The Drowned Lanterns
A bog at midnight, lit only by the lanterns of things that should have drowned. The ratmen brew their plague in the reeds, and the Flesh Titan wades in from the deep water to see it done.
The Drowned HulkBogwalker Elder
Gnash the Ever-HungryRat Ogre of the BreweryThe Mire WidowSpider of the Deep Reeds
The Doom WheelRatmen War-EngineBlight-LungThe Flesh TitanOpens when you win The Ashen Reach.
The Night of Bones
The barrow-field under the old moon, where the dead of nine wars lie in their mounds. Tonight the mounds are open. Every bone that ever fell here is walking, and the Ossuary King walks at their head.
Sir HollowmereThe Knight Who Did Not Fall
The Bone-SpeakerNecromancer of the MoundsLady SanguineFirst of the Blood-Court
The OssuaryColossus of Nine WarsMor-DredThe Ossuary KingOpens when you win Gloomfen.
The Black Tide
A shore of wrecks under a storm. The shellbacks climb out of the surf, the brinebeards come ashore with their harpoons, and out past the breakers the Captain is bringing his whole crew in.
The Old ShellShellback Elder
Anchor-JawBrinebeard Breaker
Big BerthaOgre Master-Gunner
Mother TideShellback Sea-WitchCaptain SaltgraveMaster of the Black TideOpens when you win Barrowdeep.
Each one a whole game of its own, built in the same world.
