A top-down action roguelite with combos and telekinesis

Top-down, real-time martial-arts combat with combos, dashes, energy attacks and telekinesis. Each world split off from our history at a different point and went its own way. One run crosses a whole world in three acts, with a boss at the end of each.

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Solo indie dev · in development · no release date yet

The world tree from the hero's base. Each branch holds a world; the locked orbs are worlds that aren't open yet.

The hero fires a long energy beam at a zombie with a pitchfork — Energy beam

The hero winds up to throw an energy bomb — Energy bomb

A zombie crawls out from under a cart and bites the hero's leg — Don't walk past the cart

Combat

Light and heavy attacks branch into different combos depending on the order you press them. After playing some beat 'em ups I wanted a bit of that combat in a top-down game, mixed with telekinesis.

Fighting styles

The same buttons, four ways to fight. A style changes the blows, the dash and how every combo ends when you hold the last heavy.

Energy and powers

Energy attacks are learned and ranked up in the base. Telekinesis works on enemies and on the world around them, an idea I took from Psi-Ops.

Watch modifiers

The hero's watch holds one modifier per run. Early in the run you pick one of three from the trophies you own, then level it up or swap it after fights.

Found later in runs

The world I'm building now

The hussar world's orb from the world tree: a village by a river, a zombie hussar with wings

A 17th-century branch of history where the Winged Hussars caught a zombie virus.

It's one of the worlds on the tree. You can play the worlds in any order and progress is saved per world. Six to eight are planned; this is the first one I am building.

Act I: a campfire and a log by a stone circle on the outskirts — **Act I** The outskirts

Act II: a river bank with stacked logs — **Act II** The river and the camp

Act III: a citadel gate at night — **Act III** The citadel at night

Devlog

Press kit

Branched Worlds is a top-down pixel action roguelite in development. No release date yet.

The kit has the logo (color and black and white), the profile picture, banners and gameplay screenshots. Use them freely in articles and videos about the game.

Download press kit (zip)

Contact

The most useful thing for me right now is feedback on how the combat feels. Leave a comment under a video or send a message to the Facebook page.