Demo v1.3 — Bug Fixes & Polish

✦ Bug Fixes
- Fixed a race condition that left an overlay stuck on screen during the final boss fight.
- Awakening picker no longer lets background UI steal clicks.
- Removed a contradictory dialogue line during the final cutscene.

✦ UI Polish
- Awakening picker reworked with proper portraits and category descriptions.
- Wheel of Fate rewards now show as a centered modal with full description.
- Synergy banner restyled to match the rest of the game.
- Cutscene dialogues now use speech bubbles attached to portraits.
- Window title no longer shows "(DEBUG)".

✦ New
- Display Settings — pick fullscreen / borderless / windowed and your resolution. Settings persist across launches.

✦ Balance
- Reduced the frequency of certain in-castle events.

Thank you for playing! Bug reports welcome in the Community Hub.

Über diese Demo

You Are the Demon Lord.

The heroes are coming. Build your army, command your council, and defend your castle before the kingdom tears it down.

Demon Rising is a dark fantasy roguelike auto-battler where your demons are more than units. They argue, remember, react, and speak through a local LLM-driven dialogue system. Recruit followers, survive branching events, and watch every run spiral into a different story.

✦ FEATURES

LLM-Driven Demon Personalities
Your followers can speak, react, and remember through local language models. Interrogate captured heroes, argue with your council, and uncover the personalities inside your demon army.

Auto-Battle Tactics
You do not control every swing. You build the army, choose classes, equip relics, unlock talents, and watch the chaos unfold as your demons clash with invading heroes.

Roguelike Runs
Choose your path through battles, elite enemies, markets, treasures, events, and boss encounters. Every run forces different sacrifices, upgrades, and hard decisions.

Class & Synergy System
Warriors, Mages, Monks, Chaos Lords, hidden classes, relics, buffs, and team synergies let you stack brutal combos and create broken builds.

Dark Fantasy Atmosphere
Pixel-art combat, grim demon portraits, gothic music, and a world that treats evil like a burden, not a joke.

✦ WHO IT'S FOR

If you enjoy Slay the Spire, Darkest Dungeon, The Bazaar, or auto-battlers with strange builds and darker stories — and you ever wished your army would actually talk back — this is for you.

✦ DEMO CONTENT

This demo includes the early playable version of Demon Rising. In the current demo, there is one playable Demon Lord character, with access to the core roguelike auto-battler loop: recruiting demons, choosing paths, fighting heroes, collecting rewards, equipping relics, unlocking upgrades, and experiencing the local LLM-driven dialogue system.

The full version is planned to expand the game with more playable Demon Lords, additional classes, enemies, events, relics, talents, story content, and deeper progression systems.

Offenlegung von KI-generierten Inhalten

Der Spieleentwickler beschreibt den Einsatz von KI-generierten Inhalten in diesem Spiel wie folgt:

Demon Rising uses generative AI for part of its content:
Live-generated narrative — The game includes a local AI language model that runs fully offline on your PC; no internet connection is required and no data is sent anywhere. During play it generates dynamic dialogue for your demon officers, war-council debates, prisoner interrogations and boss encounters, keeping conversations varied across runs. All generated text is constrained by the game's prompts to in-game characters and situations and is bounded by built-in safeguards. If the AI model is unavailable, the game automatically falls back to hand-written dialogue, so the full game is playable either way.
Pre-generated artwork — Some character portraits and illustrations were created with the help of AI image-generation tools, then selected and edited by the developer.
All AI-assisted content is curated and reviewed by the developer.