About This Game

In the beginning, it was a sacrifice. Now it is a spectacle. One gate, and only one side walks out.

Gods and demons fill the stands. You are the Sacrificer.

Summon monsters, outlast cunning hero bosses, and when the moment comes, offer three of your own and step onto the sand as the demon they worship. Every second you spend is a second of your life.

TIME IS YOUR LIFE

Time is the only currency. Summons, spells, upgrades and merchant deals all burn seconds.

Even opening your grimoire to think costs one.

Kill heroes, collect souls and sacrifice lives to win time back. Hit zero, and the altar claims you.

COMMAND THE LEGION

80+ monsters across 9 races:

skeletons, demons, dragonkin, nether fiends, beasts, spiders and more.

They fight on their own; you call the shots.

Stack race synergies, fuse two cards into a higher tier, and carry traits like lifesteal,

crit and resurrection through the run.

Watch for mutants: giant and frenzied variants that can swing a fight.

SACRIFICE THREE. BECOME THE DEMON.

Let enough of one race fall in the arena, burn three of their cards, and descend as their Avatar.

Switch from commander to real-time WASD action, mid-battle.

6 Avatars, from a blood-cursed wolf to a dragon of the void, each with four skills and a finisher of its own.

THE HEROES ARE THE BOSSES

10 heroes, each with their own AI. They dodge, flank, heal each other and punish your openings.

They grow stronger the longer you stall. Kill them before they outgrow you.

DARK RITES & BLOOD BARGAINS

10 dark rites for when you'd rather do the killing yourself:

Soul Siphon, Evil Whisper, Time Freeze... and a rain of Cute Slimes.

53 merchants come knocking, trading monsters, traits and 55 pieces of equipment for what's left of your life.

ONE LIFE. FIVE ARENAS.

Fight through five arenas on a single life.

No second is wasted: the time you survive is banked as Emberhours.

Spend it at the Ember Altar on permanent upgrades, and seal Blood Pacts to unlock new Avatars.

Fully playable in 11 languages.

FREE DEMO

The first two arenas and three Avatars are free to play. See how long you last.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

This game is a solo project; the developer made it with the help of AI tools:

- The game's content and text were conceived by the developer and written up with AI assistance (drafting and polishing); the other languages were translated with AI assistance.
- The characters and their animations, the music, and the source assets for the interface, arenas, sound effects and visual effects were purchased, licensed or commissioned from third-party creators.
- The interface, arenas, intro and visual effects are drawn and composed by code; sound effects are edited and mixed by code, with added layers of synthesized sound.
- That code (the shaders, pixel-art scripts and audio processing) was written by the developer with the help of AI coding tools; no AI image-generation or audio-generation models were used.
- The store capsule artwork was commissioned from a human artist; its background may contain AI-generated elements.

The game does not use AI to generate any content at runtime.