Eternal Return

This game will crush you. 

Face merciless gameplay to explore a cursed castle, discover the dark tales of its inhabitants, and kill the gods of a decaying world. Eternal Return combines retro graphics and old-school mechanics with modern nonlinear level design and storytelling.

Survive to Explore

Slow pacing combined with tight yet unconvential controls builds stress, tension, and horror during gameplay, rather than taking a hack & slash approach. Players build their health, stamina, and arsenal up from nothing - and earn points by killing enemies to use special weapons to fight their way to the next shortcut.

Discover a Story

Speak to NPCs, find written messages, muse over paintings, and explore story-filled architecture to learn or infer the forgotten tales of the crumbling castle and its fading inhabitants - including yourself.

Key features:

• Starting with 1 health and 1 stamina to be built up by exploring for upgrades


• Stamina management-combat


• Unique controls for toe-to-toe combat


• No Air controls! (How do they do that, anyway?)


• Realistically-paced attacks for strategy rather than spamming


• 3 primary and 3 secondary weapons


• Gathering points to use secondary weapons


• Returning to your place of death to recover points


• Looping level design around only one central checkpoint with unlockable in-universe fast travel for great immersion


• Locked doors and optional secret areas


• Hardcore areas with invisible enemies and other crazy challenges


• Secret healing checkpoints to help further your exploration


• 9 NPCs with voice acting and subtitles


• 20 Levels


• 13 Bosses


• 50+ unique enemy types


• Discover phonographs to find the game's soundtrack


• 64 colors!


• Philosophy!


• So many jars and barrels that need smashing.