About This Demo

🧟‍♀️ This is a standalone, highly volatile DEMO slice of our upcoming AI-driven, time-traveling roguelite. 

The apocalypse is in full swing, and only 3 wizards are still standing; Ash, a deadpan but wise mage with a buttery smooth voice, Morgan, a music-lyric-maverick who loves a good dose of PTSD, and YOU.

It’s time to break the timeline. Embrace the magic of the AI ritual. The dead are walking, and we’re fresh out of human shields.

🥩 GENERATE YOUR MEAT SUIT 

Discard your body and travel back through time to possess a hero by describing anyone you can imagine. All you need is a name, a face, and a killer wardrobe.

The apocalypse is efficient, brutal, and has zero regard for your personal comfort so this demo you get exactly one chance to generate a hero that won't screw this up (however,  if you want to change your look, we might be kind and give you one reroll).

Once you accept your new meat vessel, you are stuck slinging spells in this specific body for the duration of this trial. We hope you leap into a hardened, highly-skilled battlemage. You will probably get a monkey in pajamas. 

💫 YOUR EXPECTED TRAJECTORY

The Ritual demands suffering. Here is exactly how your shift is going to play out:

• You are abruptly yanked from your mundane life.

• You are shoved into a highly unqualified, AI-generated vessel.

• You realize you have no weapons, only unstable, chaotic magic.

• The undead horde arrives to welcome ahem, eat you.

• You die terribly.

• The timeline instantly rewinds, forcing you to do it all over again (loading screens, schmolding screens phfft)

• You suffer through the hordes, attempting to master your spells.

• After 7 painful levels, you finally face a Boss. You will probably die again.

🗝️ KEY DEMO FEATURES

• HERO or ZERO: Experience a brutally tuned vertical slice of personalised spellcasting combat. This demo will give you an introductory run through of an 8 beat story, with more storylines coming in the main game.

• Sardonic Survival: Navigate the collapsing multiverse guided by a system that truly, deeply does not care if you succeed. You do have ‘friends’ in Ash and Morgan but they don’t do hippy hand holding.

• Chaotic Spellcraft: Don't just mash buttons. Tap to quick-fire your personalized spells, or hold your cast to unleash devastating heavy damage, level-clearing ricochets, and split-shots into the horde.

• Pure Skill, No Safety Net: You’ve got to sling your spells with top-notch skill to get through our 8 story beats, OR you will be thrown back into the grinder every time you fail. The timeline instantly rewinds back to the start of the level; there are no loading screens to save you here, and any questionable stat boosts and chaotic new abilities also disappear.

• A Shifting Apocalypse: The Ritual doesn't just generate your meat suit. It drops you into 24 constantly varied, shifting 3D environments with unpredictable objectives; from desperate survival and wave defense, to frantic searches and brutal boss fights.

🫰BRIBE TIME IF YOU BEAT THE BOSS:

Saving the timeline is a thankless job, so we are shamelessly bribing you to finish it. Beat the demo boss, take a screenshot of your Victory Screen, and be the first to post it in our Discord's #Will-Suffer-For-Merch channel to claim your reward:

• 1st - 3rd Place: You get a physical YvsZ Jacket. Free merch. You win life.

• 4th - 10th Place (Digital Purgatory): We will immortalize your generated weirdo as a 'Daily Character' in the game. They will be doomed to be killed by the rest of the community, forever. You're welcome.

✨ THE MULTIVERSE EXPANDS IN THE MAIN GAME: 

If you want to unlock more AI generations, tailor your hero with loot and skill trees, and truly turn the tides on the zombie apocalypse, contending with a hefty dose of trauma along the way, you’re gonna need the full game.

We are a small indie team working our hearts and brains out to bring the full apocalypse to you later this year. The MAIN GAME will feature:

• The Meat Locker: Possess bizarre, community-generated heroes (yes, even the cats made of cheese).

• The Trauma System: Balance god-tier meta-progression with crippling time-travel psychosis.

• Multiverse Chaos: Break the timeline, fracture reality, and face the consequences.

Whether you fight like a HERO or a ZERO, for now, drag your traumatized self over to our Discord to celebrate your demise, and join the rest of the time-traveling wizards.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

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.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

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.