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OutRune
A fast-paced, psychedelic room-clearing action game blending mystery and memory. Battle relentless enemies, discover and upgrade powerful items, and help Orillia survive long enough to uncover her past… and ESCAPE!

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Coming Soon To Early Access

The developers of this game intend to release as a work in progress, developing with the feedback of players.

Note: Games in Early Access are not complete and may or may not change further. If you are not excited to play this game in its current state, then you should wait to see if the game progresses further in development. Learn more

What the developers have to say:

Why Early Access?

“As a solo developer, testing the game's balancing is very time-consuming. Hence, the reason for early access is to help like-minded fans of the genre to help push the game to its best with help from community comments and feedback. All suggestions and feedback will help craft the best version of OutRune.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“12 months.”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“The release version will have a more comprehensive selection of AfterFacts and upgrades, better-balanced enemies and gameplay loop, more bosses, more enemy types, extra floors, secret floors, secret rooms, and many smaller events/rooms to keep each run entertaining and surprising around every corner. There will also be free character skins that will change the base stats of Orillia at the start of each run.”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“The game will be released to early access once the following features are completed and implemented:

- 3 complete floors of rooms, each with a pool of 20/30 rooms
- Unique boss fight at the end of each floor with a mega boss as the last one
- 5 fully upgradable AfterFacts
- Progression/Unlock system
- A complete set of terrifying and exciting room curses
- 20 enemy types with unique behaviours

The game is currently in pre-release condition and includes the following:
- almost 2 complete floors
- one boss fight
- 5 fully implemented and upgradable AfterFacts
- AfterFact upgrading system
- Unlock/Progression system
- 10 unique enemies with varied behaviours
- Exciting room curses
- Environmental dangers

The game will only be released to early access once enough content is added that satisfies the average lover of classic rogue-like games.”

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“The price will increase slightly upon full release.”

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“All comments and feedback are considered, and all community feedback will help shape the game into the best possible version of itself. You can join the OutRune discord with this link:



You can also join the subreddit here:



You can head to for more information or contact me with any specific comments or suggestions. However, the discord community contains development updates, general chat channels, feedback channels and more, so it is the best place to join me on this journey. I encourage any bugs to be reported there, which significantly helps.”
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About This Game

OutRune is a unique blend of fast paced action, room clearing, simple item upgrading, a touch of memory and a touch of mystery. So jump in and help Orillia ESCAPE!

Captured by 'The Runeless', a dark and powerful being, you must take Orillia on her journey to escape imprisonment while struggling to keep her grasp on reality due to a broken and faded memory caused by years of torment and failed escape attempts. To escape this nightmare, you must vanquish rooms of minions, who are only alive to serve the bidding of their master whilst he experiments with different ways to increase his power. Along her journey, Orillia will encounter many obstacles that you, the player, must help her overcome, including mysterious powers and curve balls from The Runeless that could completely change your approach.

Once belonging to others, these AfterFacts are powerful Items that Orillia can somehow harness the power of. Find them along the way and use them to help progress through the treacherous floors. 

A SIMPLE and QUICK upgrading system allows you to empower Orillia's found AfterFacts. There are only 4 types of Runes.

Health (Green)

Agility (Blue)

Luck (Yellow)

Damage (Red)

Your possible upgrades will reflect the core values of the runes you have deposited. So combining two blue runes will produce an upgrade based on speed/agility and movement, whereas combining a yellow and a red rune will provide an upgrade based on luck and power. Lucky power!

You need to have your wits about you and observe your environment to help Orillia remember where she cannot. Glyphs will be presented to you and if you fail to remember them you will be CURSED for that room. Some are not so bad ... but some can throw quite the spanner in your run.

Early Access will include the following features:

  • 3 floors which will generate a set of rooms from a pool of over 80 rooms

  • A unique boss at the end of each floor

  • Many different enemy types with new ones appearing in each floor

  • Up to 10 AfterFacts each with all upgrade recipes

  • Unlock progression

  • up to 15 curses

  • Manual Seed entry so you can play the same run again

  • 3 Difficulties

  • 3 Save slots

Full Release Additions:

  • over 6 floors in total including secret floors

  • New AfterFacts

  • New bosses (multiple bosses per floor)

  • New enemies

  • New lore

  • New intros

  • Different character skins (which apply different starting stats)

  • New Curses

  • More secrets

The game's core takes inspiration from classic rogue-like games, with a fun and addictive game loop leaving you with that itch to try and get further than you ever did before.

Created by a solo developer, the game is a labour of love. It will be released to early access once enough content has been implemented to justify an early access release. Upon early access release, the game will have three floors to traverse. Each floor consists of a randomly selected progression of rooms (from a pool of rooms created specifically for that floor), with a boss to fight at the end of each floor!

During development, all player feedback is taken on board to help grow OutRune into the best possible version of itself, so please don't hesitate to get in touch with suggestions and comments.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

OutRune is a psychedelic dive into Orillia's head where she struggles with mature topics such as amnesia. Through visions or representations, there may be mild depictions of torture, eroticism and fear. Contains mild gore, realistic blood colour, and themes only appropriate for young adults and older. Some character skins may be slightly revealing but the intention of them is not of a sexual nature.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • OS: Windows 10
    • Processor: 4 Core 2.4GHz
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: GTX 1050
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 2 GB available space
    Recommended:
    • OS: Windows 10
    • Processor: 4 Core 3.5GHz
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: GTX 1650
    • DirectX: Version 12
    • Storage: 2 GB available space
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