The Forsaken Keep
A castle on a hill, ringed by a moat and a dead forest. Break the Blood Seals hidden around it, light the torches, and earn your way inside.
Gallows Road
A forest worth getting lost in
Every run wakes you at a different camp somewhere in the dead woods around the keep. Between you and the castle:
- Ashwick, a plague village
- The Pyre Field
- The Black Mere
- Hangman's Crown
- Pilgrim's Leap
- The Quarry
- The Last Company's wagon fort
- The Hangman's Sump
Blood Seals hide all over the map. Find them, break them, and light the torches to earn a way in.
Landmarks
Places you'll regret visiting
The Graveyard
Leaning stones, barred tombs and a lychgate the Gatehound won't let you through. What's buried here didn't stay that way.
The Bailey
Gatehouse, kennels, stables, forge and barracks, each one a room the dead of the guard would rather you didn't clear.
The Catacombs
Crypts under everything: an ossuary, a crypt chapel, locked cells, and stairs down to the Deep, where the brood keeps its heart.
The Demon Gate
Beat the Rat King and the gate opens. Walk through and the keep rebuilds itself around you, nastier than before. Your build comes with you.
Wardens, bosses and worse
Who's in charge here
Warden of the drawbridge
The Gaoler
Keys rattle, chains swing, and his lantern is the only soft spot he's got. Beat him and the walls open.
Warden of the lychgate
The Gatehound
Three heads, one collar, no patience. The other way into the keep goes through him.
Lord of the keep
The Rat King
Everything in the castle answers to him. He waits in the burning cavern behind the Demon Gate. Beat him and walk through the portal: the keep rebuilds itself around you, nastier than before.
Something under the water
The Mother
She sleeps beneath the Black Mere. Stand under the drowned bell at the end of the jetty and she claws her way up.
Generated every run
Demi-boss camps
Big brutes camp across the map, asleep until you wander too close. Their loot is worth the wake-up call.
An uninvited guest
The Dragon
It can't be killed. It flies over now and then and sets fire to everything, monsters included. Use that.
Cartography
Chart it as you go
The map is an inked parchment chart that fills in as you explore. Ground you haven't walked stays blank. Seals, torches, camps and wardens appear once you've found them. Drop a waypoint and a column of red light marks the way.
Tap M to open it, or hold M to peek without stopping.
In development
Beyond the keep
Five more regions are drawn up for the campaign. They aren't playable yet.
The Blackwood Hunt
A forest that hunts back.
The Living Prison
The walls are breathing.
The Drowned Parish
Mass is still held. Underwater.
The Walking Ruins
The ruins get up when you're not looking.
The Unborn Expanse
Where the horde comes from.