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Borrowed Light
Armed with curses and guided by a Saint, you bleed Light to escape Purgatory in this hack & slash roguelite of non-linear progression where every interaction matters.

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Features
Single-player
Family Sharing
Profile Features Limited 
Languages:
Interface Full Audio Subtitles
English ✔ ✔

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?

“We will be considering and implementing ideas from players, and we will use Early Access to both expand and improve the game. Early Access provides a great way of involving players in the development process, and we are looking forward to working with the community to make a better game together.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“We intend to remain in Early Access for twelve months, but that could change depending on how the design develops with player feedback.”

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

“We plan for the full version of Borrowed Light to have additional content influenced by community feedback during the Early Access period. We plan to provide visual and gameplay variety with additional maps, more interactables and story lines related to them, and more diverse enemies and bosses.”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“The Early Access version is fully playable, featuring three unique characters and four different game biomes. Players can also discover one unique Boss per biome and a number of biome-specific interactables.”

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

“We might increase the price during the Early Access period as additional content and features are added.”

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

“We love involving the community in development and are active on our Discord and the Steam forums. We want to hear all suggestions, bug reports, and player feedback in order to make a better game together.
Your voice will be heard and will influence the development of the game.”
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About This Game

You are no hero - only a sinner crawling out of the Land of the Damned. 

Guided by a Saint who is trapped in a lantern, you push forward by bleeding borrowed Light.

Interact with soul remnants in Hell and unearth memories of your past.

Borrowed Light is a hack & slash roguelite where story and meta progression are delivered via interactables: enter a map to explore, put the other sinners to rest, and commune with the damned entities of Hell.

Each interactable type triggers a unique dialogue of choices depending on how much of your memory of your earthly deeds you have already unraveled.

The fate of those petrified souls is in your hands, and it is up to you to grant them hope or despair. Ruthlessly harvest their energies, restoring your Light, regaining Memory to become more powerful, and invoking a wide variety of other effects and consequences - or sacrifice a bit of yourself to discover more of their story.

Every interactable features a separate progression path that tells you more about the lost soul behind it, improves the rewards they grant across future playthroughs, and sometimes unravels some of your own deeds back on Earth.

Your Light is your Life: Your borrowed light will be drained by enemy attacks. Squander it all, and you will have to start anew - yet naught is lost, for Hell remembers you: any interactable progression will be retained.

Your Sins are your Skills: Gather memory of your past sins and use it to upgrade each attack in the combo separately for a variety of effects that conditionally buff your damage or deliver other effects - or pick a Memento that will unlock more interaction options.

Your Curses grant Power: Casting burdens you with corruption and forces you to pick Curses that change your appearance - upgrading your future Casts, but accumulating a Light cost on them.

You're trapped in eternal limbo with many others.

There is no authority to judge you. 

Is Hell... broken?

Start with the Renegade and reveal his story to unlock the Witch and the Oathbreaker.

Discover Story interactables to learn more about how their past binds them, and unravel their intertwined fates. 

Use the knowledge to challenge your "holier-than-thou" guide in the lantern, and reveal the true nature of their plight.

Explore the initial three biomes - the Wither, the Haunt and the Slough - and contact lost souls to open the way to the deeper circles of Hell.

Reach the three hidden Circles and vanquish the Fallen to let them invade your future runs.

Challenge them and restore their full power, for you will need their Boons to reach the final showdown at the seventh Circle.

No AI was used in the making of this game.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

The game features Action RPG level of gore and violence, mild Lovecraftian horror, and some profanity with occasional use of swear words.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10 64-bit
    • Processor: Dual Core 2.4 GHz
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: GeForce GTX 950, Radeon R7 360, or Intel HD Graphics 630
    • Storage: 10 GB available space
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10 64-bit
    • Processor: Quad Core 2.4 GHz
    • Memory: 16 GB RAM
    • Graphics: GeForce RTX 2060, Radeon RX 5600 XT, or Intel Arc A580
    • Storage: 10 GB available space
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