About This Demo

• Conquer the first Biome "The Demon Carnival".

• Access to 4 challenging Difficulty Levels and an Endless Mode.

• Test your Strength, Knowledge and Dexterity against 3 Mini-Bosses and 1 Big-Boss.

• 4 Skill Lines are included in this Demo and 22 Skills are available to unlock, upgrade, and utilize in your builds.
  
  Ranged Weapon Techniques:

  • Shuriken

  • Boomerang

  • Caltrops

  • Kukri

  • Fan of Daggers

  Incendiary Sorcery:

  • Fireball

  • Firestorm

  • Breath of Flames

  • Fire Burst

  • Flaming Disc

  • Wall of Fire

• Martial Weapons:

  • Great Hammer

  • Iron Claw

  • Rapier

  • Greatsword

  • Chain Flail

• Death Rituals:

  • Skull Crow

  • Death Rancor

  • Summon Skeleton

  • Spirit Lance

  • Cauldron of Bats

  • Death Scythe

• Choose from Traits, Skills, and Skill Modifications to create a uniquely powerful build.

• Experiment to discover Conduits that create new skill effects.

• Discover, collect, and upgrade Equipment.

• Augment Equipment with Runes during runs to refine your build even further.

• The first 2 Origins, the Outlander, and the Soldier, as well as 2 Ascensions each.

The Serpent and the Crow is a single-player, bullet-heaven, action rogue-lite, survivor-like with strong emphasis on RPG character depth and strategic build development. Face-off against droves of enemies as you explore unique themed biomes to unlock keys and take control of ancient thrones hidden in a forgotten tavern.

Discover equipment blueprints that can be permanently crafted and upgraded at the Blacksmith. Most equipment slots will change the appearance of your character to allow for greater visual personalization. In addition, equipment can have empty rune slots (more as you upgrade). These slots can be used to temporarily augment the stats on your gear to help refine the build for that run.

Each run will start by choosing a character Origin. This Origin will decide the starting weapon, skill, and stats of your character for the run. After completing two stages in the run you will select an Ascension for the remainder of the run. This Ascension will increase and specialize your stats. Additionally, a powerful Ascension Aura will be created around your character. Origins and Ascensions can be permanently upgraded through the Codex at your hub.

As you gain experience and level up during a run you will earn points to choose from a random selection of new character Traits, Skills, and Skill Modifications and enhance your strength. The myriad of possible combinations of these enhancements allow each run to feel fresh.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

The Serpent and the Crow contains cartoon violence against fantasy monsters such as demons and undead with some cartoon gore and blood.