About This Game

Fight your way up while the whole world tries to drag you back to the bottom.

You are nobody. No name. No past. Only a Spark, rage, and one way up — through the concrete guts of Babylon. A colossal metropolis coils around the immense Mountain, from the Bottom to the Source at its summit. Every Layer is ruled by its own idea. Every idea became a civilization. Every civilization became a trap.

Storm it. Carve through hordes of corrupted creatures. Claim weapons from godlike Asuras. Reach the Source. Remember who you really are.

AXIS: Urban Samsara is a brutal 2.5D action RPG with lightning-fast combat, set in one vast vertical world wrapped around a colossal Mountain. 

FULL-THROTTLE CARNAGE

Combat is timing, positioning, and aggression. Dash in. Leap over enemies. Crash down from above. Chain strikes into combos. Roll clear of incoming attacks. Never let your enemies dictate the pace.

Hundreds of corrupted creatures hunt your Spark. Every battle with an Asura becomes a dance. Each has its own rhythm. Its own pattern. Read it. Break it. Make the fight yours.

Defeat the Asuras and claim their weapons. Combine them with abilities and Vajra Forms — technomagic upgrades that reshape your playstyle. Switch between them on the fly.

Pulse Daggers + Invisibility — kill from the shadows.

Shotgun + Singularity — pull enemies into a single point and tear them apart with one blast.

Hammer + Energy Shield — become a living fortress at the heart of the carnage.

Find your killer combo. Then build an even crazier one.

ONE VAST OPEN WORLD — TURNED VERTICAL

Welcome to Babylon — a reflection of your consciousness. The entire game unfolds on a single colossal Mountain. A vast, interconnected world stretches before you, from the Bottom to the Source at its summit.

At the Bottom: scrapyards of rust and bone. Higher up: psychedelic subway stations, concrete temples, and neon ruins. Higher still: fractal deserts where geometry itself goes mad and familiar logic breaks down.

Unlock shortcuts. Find hidden routes. Return with new abilities and break into districts that were once out of reach. This is not a series of runs. It is one great Ascent. Every new ability permanently reshapes your path upward.

Every Layer of Babylon is a world unto itself — and a trap. A separate society imprisoned within a single idea pushed to its limit: survival, faith, power, order, success, and even love.

An Asura awaits at the heart of every Layer — a malevolent god and the living embodiment of its domain. Accept its rules. Master them. Break them. Defeat the god. Ascend.

A GLITCH GOD TRAPPED IN A ROTTING BODY

A Spark in someone else’s world. A mind caged by its own illusions. A system glitch that should never have become self-aware.

Behind the brutal carnage lies the Ascent. You are not just fighting your way up the Mountain. You are tearing through layers of your own consciousness — from raw animal fear at the Bottom to the blinding radiance of the Source.

Babylon speaks to you.

Through graffiti on concrete.

Through voices over loudspeakers.

Through glitches in a disintegrating reality.

Virgil, your sardonic guide, leads you upward but gives you no easy answers. The closer you get to the Source, the more violently the world fractures — and the harder it becomes to tell where you really are: inside a game, a simulation, a dream, or someone else’s mind.

Corridors loop back on themselves. Doors lead you back to where you just came from. Rifts in space grow ever more impossible. The Mountain recognizes you. And tries to destroy you with ever greater fury.

Reach the summit.

Break free from the Illusion.

Remember who you are.

Find out how it all really works.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

AXIS contains frequent stylized violence, combat against human-like and monstrous enemies, boss fights, blood effects, body horror, disturbing imagery, death, suffering, and dark psychological themes.

The game also includes themes of manipulation, cults, oppression, trauma, existential dread, and a collapsing world. Some areas may contain references to alcohol or fictional intoxicating substances.

There is no sexual content, sexual violence, or non-consensual sex.