About This Game

Game Languages:  English,   Spanish.

"Caverns & Dryads" takes you to a world of fantasy, where you will guide Tamzyn, the dryad warrioress —deadly and beautiful— and Sioul, the wizard —tenacious and powerful.

Together, they will explore forgotten cities of mysterious beauty and dungeons filled with dangerous monsters. 

Prepare for an adventure full of action, magic, and romance!  

WHAT GENRE OF GAME IS THIS?

Caverns and Dryads includes features from RPGs, roguelikes, and visual novels. But it was created with total creative freedom, without following formulas or conventions.

As a solo developer, I summoned its fantasy world without adhering to any trends.

¡That’s why it’s unlike anything you’ve played before!

TELL ME ABOUT THE GAME WORLD!

The story is an affirmation of heroic will and true love, against all dangers and limits.

Caverns and Dryads shows you a world with danger and wonder, romance and heroism, and mythic creatures. It has its own lore and aesthetics.

In this underground universe, dryads and the Magic Council play a central role. The shadow of the Chaotic Invasion marks their past, and menaces their future.

Prepare to meet the Purple King of the Amethyst Throne, Aubeline the queen of the dryads, and many other unforgettable characters!

SOME FEATURES:

• You can freely explore and move through the different locations in the game world.

• Live the main quests and accept jobs to get gold or just explore the world to get experience.

• Your actions will advance the story and the relationship between the warrioress and the wizard.

• They are heroes: they don't fall easily. The wizard can resurrect the warrioress, but at a cost that you can recover if you play wisely.

• Turn-based 2D action that's immersive and relaxing, yet thrilling during battles.

• Play in short sessions or for hours, immersing yourself in this fantasy universe.

• This is a 100% free game. You can buy the DLCs to get extra content, features and lore, but it's not mandatory. If you enjoy the game and want to support my work, you can buy a DLC —it helps me keep expanding this world.

THE COMMUNITY:

I constantly add new content, stories, and features! Caverns and Dryads is a living, ever‑expanding world.

Join the community and share your thoughts! Visit the Steam discussions, read the blog, or drop me a message on Discord! (links here or from the game menu)

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

All writing, story, lore and programming are entirely handmade. No AI is used for text or code (programming).

About art:
I trained my own styles for AI, and created my own concepts for places, heroine, hero, monsters, and icons of my game. All my styles are based on my own work and on public domain classical painting art, so I consider it to be ethical.

The workflow I use is this: I paint an image (in Rebelle 7 Pro, natural painting software), then run through my own styles and concepts, so it becomes more polished. Then the result is usually very imperfect, then I paint again on it, modify, re-render, repeat this process several times, usually ending in me painting on it as a final step.

Then I postwork the image with an image editor usually Zoner Photo Studio or Affinity Photo. What you see is the result of all this process, not a raw generative art image, and that is why you feel some vibe, but you can see it's not at all the style you use to see on generative images, because there is a huge part of human involvement both in manual and generative steps.

This is how I feel I should do art, and I think it's honest, as it doesn't break the rights of anyone, and implies a big effort and care from my part as an artist.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

There can be some poetic or metaphorical descriptions of intimate acts, but nothing explicit.
There can be some clothing that shows parts of cleavage, legs, equivalent to a bikini in the females, and bare torso on males.
There can be some veiled nudity occasionally.