About This Game

"Beyond the great plains and mountains, deep inside the forbidden lands, lies a dormant kingdom, unreached in centuries. Those who enter the ranges of its terrible curse, will forever be drifting between its paths, running from its horrible creatures, sleeping in crumbling temples, and watching the lights on the mountain during starry nights."

Introduction

You've set foot into a forbidden land on a haunting journey towards its ancient center. Adapt and exploit every resource at your disposal in this turn-based 3D ASCII roguelike, or see your journey reset along the shifting paths running through its vast wilderness.

Features

• A Forbidden Land: Explore a hand-made world of dark forests, bottomless lakes, crumbling ruins, and sunken temples. Pass rivers, monster nests and spider forests on an unpredictable path through the wilderness, using the streamlined controller or keyboard inputs.

• Ebbs and Flows: Forage rusted weapons, scarce supplies and mystical charms to withstand the forces of the world. Enter forgotten temples, damp sewers and abandoned huts to find precious gear. Look out for the little food you can find to avoid starving along the way. Every resource found is vital to survive, so keep an eye out for hidden stashes.

• Feel Your Heart Beat: Every move is a calculated choice. This is a tense, turn-based experience where one rash step can invite disaster. Time moves only when you do, allowing you to pause, survey the situation, and carefully think about your next step. Should the hero die, the game resets and a new game will start, on a new path, that flows as wildly through the land as the one before.

• The Living Ghosts: Encounter ferocious wildlife, long lost souls and evil monsters that haunt you in the dark. Carefully balance your approach in the turn-based combat to overcome the dangers of this world, weighing the strengths and weaknesses of your gear and whether to fight or retreat.

• A Haunting Place: Immerse yourself in the game's moody soundscapes and unique graphics, brought to life by a custom engine that merges retro terminal aesthetics with modern 3D depth, adding dynamic lighting and visual flourishes like day, night and weather cycles.

Early Access

Rangedrifter is actively growing. By entering the journey early, you are directly shaping the path ahead! Future updates are planned to introduce new items, monsters, systems, regions and deeper lore. Visit the official website for the development log that I update daily.

Current Content

• 5+ Weapons & Gear

• 15+ Charms

• 10+ Food and Aid Items

• 15+ Monsters

• 25+ Objects

• Visual Effects

• 70+ Interiors

• 500+ Path-Nodes

• 80+ Secrets

• 4x10^32 Possible Paths

• Puzzles

• Traps

Community

Join the journey! Share your feedback, bug reports, and ideas in the Steam Discussions Forum or the official Subreddit and help me shape the game's future. For more background on the game's development, visit the official Youtube channel or join my regular streams on Twitch where I work on the game. You can find the stream schedule on the official website.

"That narrow, broken path through the trees there. Snakes all the way deep into the kingdom." The old man looks at you. "Rubble and curses are all that's left there. Some other went there long ago. Looked just like you. Best you find something else." He grows silent, his eyes fixed beyond the trees.