Planned Release Date: To be announced

About This Game

A World of Decay and Disease

In Asthenia, you take on the role of an ordinary man who has experienced a tragic life event and is now stranded in an otherworldly dimension. This dimension is ravaged by a strange disease and filled with seemingly deserted towns, ruins, temples, industrial areas, and other haunting places.

These lands are ruled by ancient entities engaged in a mysterious war, and you will have to uncover the reason for their conflict. Additionally, you must solve the mystery behind the enigmatic origin of the rotting disease that slowly consumes everything. However, there are also other dark and disturbing inhabitants roaming this dimension, and they will hunt you down. Encounter them, as well as other tortured souls that exist in the world of Asthenia, and try to escape unharmed.

What Will Your Fate Be?

Game Features

Explore the Decaying Lands: Explore atmospheric and mysterious locations on the ground and at higher elevations, discovering hidden items, resources, keys, journals, upgrades, and weapons.

Encounter your Foes: Engage in close-range combat using the ancient Gauntlet and a secondary secret weapon as your primary means of defense.

The Ancient Gauntlet: A sacred relic with the ability to interact with specific environmental objects and used in combat as a melee weapon.

Survive the Odds: In this world, search for limited-use health and gauntlet energy pools to fight back and survive.

Multiple Fight Methods: Close combat is not your only option. Use traps and other destructible environment objects to battle and defeat your foes.

Dynamic Enemies Count and Difficulty: Encounter and overcome common enemies, or discover tougher hidden foes and bosses that will test your skills and offer rewards or penalties.

Boss Fights: Encounter epic-scale bosses and some Secret, sub-optional ones.

Secret Gauntlet Parts and Player Upgrades: Discover how to unlock the Gauntlet's full potential and obtain player upgrades.

Lead the Fallen Guardians: Find the tombs of the ancient guardians and awaken them to fight alongside you.

Split Ways: At a certain point, you must select a path that will determine the story's outcome and present various challenges.

The Mysteries of the Land: Uncover the reasons behind the war, the corrupting disease, and the origins and mysteries of the inhabitants through scattered notes, paintings, voiceovers, and other clues.

Your Story Ends in 3 Different Ways: There isn't just one way to conclude this story. Your actions and choices throughout your journey will determine your fate.

An Unforgiving World

Asthenia is a challenging adventure game that doesn't offer mini-maps or quest markers. This means you'll need to rely on your observations and various tactics to progress, as the game doesn't hold your hand.

ABOUT US

I am an Industry artist and the solo developer of Asthenia, which is my first game. I only recently had a new, Co-Dev join the project. I began working on this game in 2019, following some significant and devastating life events that inspired me to start this project. My goal was to develop a deeply personal story and interactive experience that explores both dark and hopeful themes within an immersive world. I hope you can find something meaningful and engaging to connect with in this game. Your feedback and opinions are highly valuable to me. Thank you for your support!

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

I have only used AI to generate ideas for a few in-game paintings that I used as base to overpaint and modify. I haven't used any AI features on anything else in the game.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Our game does not contain any explicit sexual acts or scenes. However, it does touch on sensitive topics including miscarriage, corpses, grotesque creatures, disturbing scenes, and sensitive psychological themes such as depression, anxiety, and theological concepts. Please be aware of these elements while playing the game.