Apex · Ascend
The Tower
Climb upward. Stone battlements give way to cloud fortresses and golden parapets. Knights, beasts, and elemental wardens guard the way to the summit.
A Painterly Tactical Roguelike
Climb the Apex.
Descend the Abyss.
Hand-painted isometric battlefields. Real terrain, real turn order, every decision yours to make. A tactics RPG that respects your time.
200
Themed Floors
51
Skills
33
Heroes
61
Monster Types
Scroll
No timers, no rush
Story is never paywalled
Rates published openly
Combat stays sacred
Two Paths · One Roster
The Tower & The Abyss
Two complete campaigns. One hundred themed floors each, twenty distinct biomes between them. Heroes raised in either mode carry into the other — there is no PvE wall between casual and endgame.
Abyss · Descend
The Abyss
Descend deeper. Haunted tunnels, sunken crypts, and obsidian depths. Different bestiary, darker palette, the same roster — heroes raised above carry below.
Tactics That Ask Something Of You
Built for Grid Veterans
Every battle is a puzzle. Height, facing, terrain, and turn order all shape the outcome. No timers — think as long as you need.
Combat
Isometric Tactics
Command a 6-slot, 2×3 formation — three front, three back — across painterly isometric grids. Height, facing, and turn order all shape the outcome of every fight.
Skills
51 Branching Skills
Four core classes — Warrior, Rogue, Mage, Cleric. Three of them branch at hero level 5: Warrior into Paladin or Berserker, Rogue into Assassin or Ranger, Mage into Elementalist or Chronomancer. The Cleric stays a Cleric.
Status
Compounding Effects
Burn lingers. Frost slows the turn order. Bleed compounds with each strike. Status interaction is the language of late-game play.
Roguelite
Perks & Artifacts
Six perks. Five team-wide artifacts. A choice every five floors. The same roster runs different every time.
Maps
200 Themed Floors
Designed per floor, loaded from disk. Ten Tower themes from Crown Spire to Golden Parapet. Ten Abyss themes from Haunted Tunnels to the Forgotten Undercroft.
Cloud
Sign-In Cloud Save
Optional Google Sign-In. Your hard-won roster syncs across devices. Local play is fully supported — no account required.
Auto-Battle, On Your Terms
Manual by Default. Tiered When You Need It.
Manual play is the design center. Auto-battle is opt-in, and speed is gated by progression and the optional Monthly Pass — never required, never the only way.
Tier 1
1×
Standard Pace
Available to every player, every account, every battle.
Tier 2
2×
Doubled Pace
Earned by clearing both 100s. Unlocks with Nightmare Mode.
Tier 3
3×
Tripled Pace
Active while subscribed to the optional Monthly Pass.
The Monthly Pass is optional, never required, and grants no PvP advantage — it's a quality-of-life lane for repeat farming. The story, the floors, and the endgame are all reachable without it.
Hero Summoning
Transparent by Design
33 summonable heroes at launch. Pity counter visible in the summon screen, not buried in a TOS. Pull rates published openly.
Legendary
1%
Guaranteed at 90 pulls
Epic
10%
Guaranteed at 30 pulls
Rare
40%
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Common
49%
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Free summons through campaign progress and event rotations. Story content is never gated by energy.
A Reason to Finish Both
Two Crowns. One Legend.
Mastery of one path is half the answer. The split-loot endgame asks for both.
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The Apex Crown
Earned at the summit. Floor 100 of the Tower yields a relic of ascension that no descent will ever reach.
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The Abyss Crown
Earned in the deep. Floor 100 of the Abyss yields a relic of depth no climb will ever touch.
Combine Both
Both crowns combine into a class-locked legendary tied to the hero who carried you there. Beat both 100s and Nightmare Mode opens — re-tuned bosses, new map palettes, re-earned stakes.
Key art · Codex Verticality
Codex Verticality
Hand-painted, top to bottom. Patient layering, not preset filters.
The aesthetic of an illuminated manuscript turned upright — ink, parchment, gold leaf, restraint. Western fantasy without the gloss filter.
We hold maps to the same craft level as our sprites. Painterly accumulation, architectural type, filigree as restraint never decoration. The page is a sigil, not a banner.
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Stratified ColumnComposition reads top to bottom — light at the apex, depth at the abyss.
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Six-Color DisciplineInk, parchment, brass, two gold tiers, muted gold. No saturation tricks.
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Architectural TypeCinzel for display, Inter for body. Letters are inset, not floated.
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Implied SilhouetteMass suggested by light leaving the form, not interior detail.
Western Fantasy
Ink
Parchment
Brass
Gold
Painterly
Ready to Climb?
Free to download. No paywalled difficulty. Strategy is your only advantage.