À propos de ce jeu

The world has ended. Humanity has fallen. Only three wizards remain in the ruins: Ash, Morgan, and You.

A desperate plan is formed: in order to save the world, you must abandon your body, become a time-traveling wizard ghost. Using The Ritual, you hurl yourself back through time to the start of the outbreak in search of someone - anyone - to possess who might survive long enough to change things.

Whether you become a fire-breathing ballerina, a spell-slinging grunge-rocker, or a tsunami-riding mai-tai surfer, you have one mission: travel back through time to rewrite the future and fix the apocalypse, armed with nothing but magic, bad decisions, and the faint hope you can fix humanity’s mess. (Or… y’know… make it worse.)

You sacrificed your body to save the world. Now you’re borrowing someone else’s. Again. And again. And again. And again… Possess the past. Master combat. Face your trauma. Or else bury it like normal people.

• Personalised Heroes - Describe who you want to be and let The Ritual do the rest. It pulls your host from across the timeline, generating personalised spells and abilities built just for you. Playable within seconds and fully rendered in our game’s art style.

• Your Story, Your Rules - This is an apocalypse built by you with personalised missions, objectives, spells, witty quips and war cries, backstory, and bosses based on how you performed The Ritual.

• Fast-Paced Shmup Combat - Dodge, weave, and hurl spells through hordes of undead in high-intensity, ARPG-inspired combat as you fight to survive overwhelming odds.

• Complex Boss Fights - Face bosses specifically chosen to challenge your hero and your reflexes.

• The Trauma System -  Killing zombies is traumatic. Dying repeatedly doesn’t help. Progressing means balancing skill trees against managing the psychological fallout of surviving the apocalypse again, and again… and again.

• Difficulty Loops: Level up quickly in high-intensity loops, unlocking new skills and stats. Scale the challenge to match your mastery.
  
  

The Ritual takes what you describe and the world we’ve built – its art, biomes, and magic – and turns it into gameplay that’s personal to you. When you start typing, here is what happens behind the scenes to build your unique experience.

During The Ritual, you describe your hero – their name, and how they look, plus curious nuggets about what they love, hate, are known for etc.  The Ritual takes this information and (using various LLM technologies combined with our hand crafted story bible, gameplay structures, objectives and constraints) creates assets, in real time, to create your customized gaming experience; a hyper-personalized story which takes around 30 minutes to complete. Within a few seconds, The Ritual simultaneously triggers:

• A personal story – each hero’s run unfolds differently, with reactive dialogue and shifting scenarios

• A stat profile – an archetype chosen to fit your hero, plus a unique buff to a core stat

• A voice – battle cries, taunts, and dialogue that match your vibe

• A spell kit – a magic school chosen to fit your hero, plus two unique spells

• A nemesis – a boss chosen specifically for your hero

• A look – 2d character art generated in our distinctive style

Everything reacts to the character YOU imagined.

All character visuals are generated using a custom AI model (LoRA) trained exclusively on our own artwork. It understands how we draw faces, hairstyles, armour, and bodies – the rules, proportions, and style choices behind the art – rather than copying individual images or creating its own.

This means when your character gets generated, it is not generic AI art; it is our artistic DNA interpreting your imagination. While The Ritual could find anyone at all in the past, we’ve also implemented layers of safeguards to ensure only true heroes can be recruited to the war effort. The result is a caricature of your hero, rendered in our visual language.

Here is how your story unfolds:

As you progress, the game knows who your hero is and what you’ve already done to decide what comes next. As a wizard in the future you gave up your body to fuel The Ritual, but your magical abilities transfer into the person you possess. Each hero starts with a school of magic, a unique stat buff, unique damage spell, and a unique utility spell. Your stats, magic, and strengths all feed into how the world reacts. You won’t be sent back to the same forest or shopping mall, and earlier choices aren’t forgotten. The game will:

• Track your run – locations visited, choices made, and carries consequences forward

• Avoid repetition – no recycled missions or copy-paste paths

• Shape your objectives– survive, rescue, escort, horde, and more, chosen because they fit your hero and your story

This is only the beginning.

Over the coming months, we will be rapidly expanding the gameplay features and experience. This is just a first taste of the chaos to come. For now, kill zombies. Fix time and stuff. Try not to lose your marbles. Suppose you should wishlist this now.

Divulgation de contenu généré par IA

L'équipe de développement décrit l'utilisation de contenu généré par IA dans le jeu comme suit.

How Does It Work? The Human-Led Creative Process

Players will start their game by participating in a time traveling Ritual.

AI doesn't write our story; it writes a story within a world which our creative team has designed. The Ritual takes what you describe and the world we’ve built – its art, biomes, enemy types, magic systems and overarching lore – and turns it into gameplay that’s personal to you.

These aren't AI suggestions; they are human-designed game mechanics and rules that AI must follow. During The Ritual, you describe your hero – their name, and how they look, plus curious nuggets about what they love, hate, are known for etc.

When you describe your hero as "a punk rocker who fears spiders and loves the color red," our platform triggers a process and system instructions that work hand-in-hand with Gemini AI. We send your input along with our own carefully crafted guidelines that tell Gemini exactly how to evaluate content appropriateness.

All storytelling is orchestrated by logic the engineering team designed, not AI deciding what happens next, alongside a story bible and character descriptions, creating assets, in real time, to craft your customized gaming experience.

All character visuals are generated using a custom AI model (LoRA) trained exclusively on our own artwork. It understands how we draw faces, hairstyles, armour, and bodies – the rules, proportions, and style choices behind the art – rather than copying individual images or creating its own.

This means when your character gets generated, it is not generic AI art; it is our artistic DNA interpreting your imagination. The result is a caricature of your hero, rendered in our visual language.

Similarly, character abilities aren't randomly generated; they follow strict mathematical systems. When Gemini generates a Unique Spell, for example, the damage, archetype, name, colours, and parameters, come from us.

While The Ritual could find anyone at all in the past, we’ve also implemented layers of safeguards to ensure only true heroes can be recruited to the war effort.

Description du contenu pour adultes

Voici la description de l'équipe de développement à propos du contenu du produit :

This game features high-intensity fantasy violence where players destroy hordes of zombies using customised magic spells. Visuals include blood splatters, dismemberment, and explosions. The game utilizes a 'Trauma System' which references PTSD and mental health struggles in a stylized, narrative context. Dialogue contains crude humour and occasional references to alcohol.