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About This Game

Descend. Fight. Survive.

The Lich: A Dungeon of Despair is a first-person, grid-based dungeon crawler that strips the genre back to its roots. Black clouds hang over the town of Myrkheim and travellers go missing. Take a party of four down through torch-lit corridors, deadly traps and increasingly dangerous monsters, to find what sleeps at the bottom of the crypt.

A Party Worth Fighting For
Start with the default heroes or build your own four adventurers: choose each one's race, class, ability scores, name and portrait. Warriors, rogues, clerics, wizards and more, each with their own role in combat and survival. Manage their health, hunger, thirst, equipment and positioning carefully. The dungeon shows no mercy to the unprepared.

D&D 5e Rules, Faithfully Adapted
Combat is governed by the D&D 5th Edition System Reference Document. Initiative, attack rolls, armour class, saving throws, spell slots, feats and level-ups. If you know the tabletop, you already know the rules. If you don't, you'll learn them the hard way.

Turn-Based Tactical Combat
Every encounter is a puzzle. Front attacks, back attacks, spell casting, wands, scrolls and positioning all matter. A skeleton archer in a narrow corridor is a very different threat to one in an open room.

More Than One Way Down
Myrkheim is your base: talk to the townsfolk, take quests, trade with the smith and have the sage identify what you find. Below it the main route runs ten levels deep, with side branches to discover: the Caves, the dwarven Mines and Ruins, and the sewers beneath the town, where a hydra waits.

Classic Dungeon Crawling, Modern Engine
Built in Unreal Engine 5, The Lich delivers the grid-movement and atmosphere of the classics with the visual fidelity of today. Every stone wall, flickering torch, and lurking shadow is rendered in full 3D.

Features

• Ten main levels plus optional branches: caves, dwarven halls and sewers

• A town hub with quests, shops and a sage who identifies items

• Turn-based combat using D&D 5e SRD rules

• Create your own party of four: races, classes, abilities and portraits

• Magic items, attunement, wands, scrolls and a full spell system

• Food, water and rest to manage as you go deeper

• Traps, secrets, locked doors and environmental hazards

• Classic grid-based first-person movement

• Play in English, German or Swedish

• Built in Unreal Engine 5

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

I have used it to help me code, all of the artwork is bought through the epic games content store.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Fantasy combat throughout. Players fight and destroy monsters and undead creatures using weapons and magic. No sexual content, drug use or real-world violence.