Blackspire

The Vigil Is Yours To Keep

The Blackspire has stood dark for a hundred years, and the dead have started walking down out of the mountain. Hollowmere is the last village in the valley still lighting its lamps at dusk. You arrive with a sword, a torch, and no particular reason to be brave.

Explore a hand-built open valley — a river cutting through dense black pine forest, a fog-choked graveyard in the west, riverside ruins in the east, and always, on the southern horizon, the great mountain with the spire on its shoulder. Talk to the five people still living here. Take their work. Learn what happened.

Fight skeletons, ghouls and wraiths with weighty first-person combat: read the wind-up, block or roll, then punish. Every kill feeds the souls you spend on getting stronger. Recover three Sigil Shards from the valley's worst places, break the seal on the Spire Gate, and face what has been waiting behind it.

Rendered in chunky, dithered, low-resolution pixels — the game your memory thinks you played in 1998, running at a framerate it never actually managed.