Just Updated

The Apocrypha Update is coming to Death of a Wish on 07/22! This major new update adds new features to the Familiar Garden area. Let's break them down!

Boss Rush Mode

Death of a Wish is filled with devious bosses that will pose an exciting challenge to all sorts of players. The Apocrypha Update will add a Boss Rush mode that allows you to challenge all of them in a single battery of fights with limited resources. Every boss is scaled for endgame levels, ensuring that early game bosses still pose an exciting threat. Can you survive until the end?

Music Room

The Apocrypha Update adds a new room where you can browse and play songs from Death of a Wish's dark soundtrack. Take some time to appreciate the bleak instrumentation and drones of Paradiso.

Training Arena

Practice combat against any enemy you have already encountered. Struggling with a specific enemy's moveset and timing? Train against it in the arena to discover its weaknesses and vulnerabilities and achieve better outcomes in combat. Your attempts at challenging late game encounters will never be the same.

About This Game

Death of a Wish is a vicious action-RPG where style is salvation.

Play as Christian as he unites with new comrades to challenge the order that raised him. By taking down the four Sanctum Faiths: Father, Sister, Cardinal, and Priest, they will upend the order of the world.

Fight your way through a nightmare filled with horrifying monsters and terrifying people. Master brutal attacks and flashy combos as you struggle against the Corruption consuming you with style and grace. Shine your light in this surreal sea of darkness.

ENGAGE IN VICIOUSLY GRACEFUL COMBAT

Unleash Christian’s cursed powers in a demanding and rewarding combat system. Be careful not to succumb to the ever-encroaching Corruption; achieve high ranks in combat and perform graceful combos to hold the Corruption at bay.

CUSTOMIZE YOUR MARKED POWERS

Rend your foes asunder with magical combos called Arias. Enhance your abilities with powerful Virtues that alter your approach to battle and the rhythm of combat. With a limitless array of ways to fight stylishly, build your character with passion to destroy your foes.

DESCEND INTO THE NIGHTMARE

In the dreamworld of Paradiso, repressed memories and unspeakable feelings come to life as the nightmarish city of Neo-Sanctum. Delve into the secret underworld of the esoteric and abandoned to meet new comrades who will aid you on your journey.

SURREAL AND SPECTACULAR

Christian’s world is rendered with a surreal aesthetic like no other. Harsh, pulsating scratches upon a sea of darkness render a thick atmosphere brooding with emotion. Battles come to life in an animated spectacle of light and motion that remains easy to parse in play.

For audio, Nicolo Telesca’s chilling score mixes electronic sounds with live instrumentation and complements the visuals by eliciting feelings of tense anxiety and electrifying catharsis.


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Game contains imagery that may be harmful to players with photosensitive epilepsy or similar conditions. See content warnings below.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Intense stylized blood and gore
Strong Language
Intense depictions of spiritual abuse and religious trauma
On-screen character death
Brief moments of intense violence against humans
Violence towards children
Gun violence
References to police brutality
Religious (Christian) imagery
Abuse of a minor by an authority figure
Abuse of a minor by a parental figure
Flashing lights
Time limits
Dark, enclosed spaces
Apocalyptic imagery
Gender dysphoria
Body dysmorphia
References to fantasy drug use
A brief mention of tobacco