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Descend an endless crypt with a cursed lantern that remembers everything. Light is your life, your map and your weapon. Every floor is new, every death teaches you something.
Beneath Varrow
Then the Crypt started digging back.
The city of Varrow buried its dead downward for a thousand years. Then the Crypt started digging back.
You carry Tallow, a lantern with a mind of its own and an appetite to match. It has been down there with everyone who tried before you, and it remembers how each of them died. Keep it lit, keep it fed, and it might tell you what’s waiting on the next floor.
6
strata and bosses, then the endless Deep
12
cursed lanterns
60
relics
6
delvers
Light is everything
Your lantern's oil is your lifeline: when it runs low the light shrinks and the dark closes in. Linger too long in the dark and things start crawling out of it. Linger longer and something that cannot be killed comes looking for you.
Every death teaches you something
The first time a foe kills you, the lantern remembers it. Next time its attacks glow faintly before they land, its Codex page opens, and Tallow has something to say about it. You don't just get stronger. You get smarter.
Short, sharp runs
About 20 minutes to a typical death, under an hour to the bottom. Fast, readable combat where every attack is telegraphed and every death is your own.
How to play
Go down. Keep the light alive.
- 01Pick a delver and a lantern at the Hearth.
- 02Go down. Fight, dodge, and keep your lantern's oil up with what fallen foes drop.
- 03Spend Bone at reliquaries for relics; feed relics to Tallow at altars if you dare.
- 04Keep moving: the longer you stay, the darker it gets.
- 05When you die, bank your Embers, spend them at the Hearth, and go down again a little wiser.
Six delvers
Who goes down
Odo
The Gravedigger
Where everyone starts: a hundred health, a spade with a wide three-hit combo, and a forgiving pace.
Sister Cendre
The Ash Nun
Swings a censer in wide arcs, and every swing leaves smoke behind.
Brannoc
The Sellsword
The most health of anyone and a greatsword that hits hard and slow.
Pip
The Rat-Catcher
Quick and fragile, with a whip that reaches three tiles, and a rat.
Alder
The Choirboy
Fights from range: every ring of his handbells sends a wave of sound.
Maud
The Lamplighter's Widow
Jabs with a long brass lamp pole, the longest reach in the crypt.
Six bosses
What waits at the bottom of each stratum
The Charnel Warden
Floor 5 · the Ossuary
Three bodies stitched into one.
The Drowned Abbess
Floor 10 · the Drowned Vaults
She flooded her own vault to keep something in.
Mother Root
Floor 15 · the Root Cathedral
The tree that ate the cathedral.
The Kilnmaster
Floor 20 · the Ember Kilns
Still at work.
The Cantor
Floor 25 · the Choir of Teeth
The voice of the Choir of Teeth.
The First Delver
Floor 30 · the Hollow
Tallow's first bearer.
Features
Everything in the crypt
- Six strata, six bosses: the Ossuary, the Drowned Vaults, the Root Cathedral, the Ember Kilns, the Choir of Teeth and the Hollow, then the endless Deep
- 12 cursed lanterns that change how the whole game plays: a narrow cone of light, a light that pulses to the music, or no light at all
- 60 relics to find, combine, and feed to your lantern for power at a price
- Daily Delve (Full Crypt): one seeded run a day, the same for everyone, one attempt, a global leaderboard
- Hand-animated pixel art and an adaptive soundtrack that falls quiet as your light fades
- Windows, Linux and Android, with one save across all of them
- Full controller support, touch controls on phones, remappable everything, and a deep set of accessibility options
Free to start, yours for $4.99
The first ten floors and two bosses are free.
$4.99 unlocks the Full Crypt: floors 11–30, four more bosses, the endless Deep, Descent and the Daily Delve. Buy it once and it’s yours on Windows, Linux and Android. Nothing you’ve earned is lost when you buy.
No ads, no shop, no premium currency, no loot boxes, no energy, no timers.
Watch
The trailer, and how to play
Screenshots
From the crypt
