Planned Release Date: Q3 2026

About This Game

Step into a world of darkness in Veles: Rise of the Damned.

Face endless hordes of cursed creatures, build unstoppable power, and carve your path through a realm ruled by ancient gods and forgotten horrors.

Fight, evolve, and survive in a fast-paced action roguelite inspired by games like Vampire Survivors.

Choose your hero, unlock powerful abilities, collect gear, and create devastating builds as you battle through waves of enemies and face brutal bosses.

Set in a dark fantasy world inspired by Slavic mythology, Veles: Rise of the Damned blends gothic atmosphere with deep character progression and build customization.

Features:
• Multiple heroes with unique playstyles
• Deep skill tree and progression systems
• Hundreds of upgrades, items, and modifiers
• Intense endgame scaling with massive enemy waves
• Dark fantasy world with angels, demons, and ancient forces
• Replayable runs with endless build combinations

Every run is different. Experiment with builds, adapt your strategy, and push further each time.

This game is currently in development. Content, balance, and features may change over time.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

This game was developed by a solo indie developer with the assistance of generative AI tools used throughout the development process. AI was used to help write and review code, generate initial artwork and visual assets (subsequently edited and refined manually), compose and iterate on music, evaluate game balance and mathematical systems, and assist with writing and testing.

All AI-generated content was reviewed, curated, and modified by the developer before inclusion in the game.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Veles: Rise of the Damned is a dark fantasy action-survival game featuring combat against supernatural enemies including undead, demons, wolves, spiders, and vampires.

Violence: The game contains stylized fantasy violence. Players use abilities to defeat waves of enemies. Combat involves creatures being destroyed, with no realistic gore or graphic depictions of injury. Violence is gameplay-focused and arcade in nature, consistent with the genre (similar to Vampire Survivors).

Themes: The game explores dark fantasy themes including death, the undead, damnation, and supernatural evil. Enemy types include skeletons, reapers, wraiths, and a Vampire Lord. Ability names and progression systems reference darkness and damnation as thematic flavor.

There is no sexual content, nudity, drug use, self-harm, or depictions of real-world violence in this game.