Planned Release Date: November 2026

About This Game

The Gloom is swallowing the realms, and only the light of the Dawnheart holds it back. Take up your post, Keeper — raise crystal spires along the road, hold the gates, and carry the last light from the meadows to the Heart of the Gloom itself. [h2]Defend Alone or Together[/h2] Play the entire game solo, or hold a shared board in online co-op with up to 9 Keepers. Invite Steam friends, join with a 6-character code, or browse open lobbies — no server setup, no account beyond Steam. [h2]The Long Dawn — a Roguelite Run[/h2] One huge generated board, up to four realms on it, and no gold at all. Every wave you clear deals you three cards: attack speed, crits, chain lightning, poison spread, a new tower school, a rare keystone that rewrites how your spires fight. Cards roll from common to legendary, so a lucky draft is a run you'll remember. Place towers from a pool of Foundations, ascend your schools through the draft instead of buying tiers, and hold the Keep to the final wave — 30 on Easy, 125 on Nightmare. Every board comes from a seed you can share, and a run in progress is saved so you can walk away and come back. Run it in co-op and every Keeper drafts their own cards, for their own towers — so one of you goes for burning damage, one for slows and shields, and the board ends up something neither of you would have built alone. Finish a run and your time goes on the leaderboard for that difficulty. The Keep holds, or it doesn't. [h2]A Voice-Acted Story Campaign[/h2] Fight through 21 handcrafted missions across 7 realms — meadow, desert, frozen pass, emberwood, shadowlands, hollow deep, and the Heart of the Gloom — with 7 bosses and 15 optional Keeper Tales that fill in the world's memory. Every line of dialogue is fully voiced in both English and Hebrew. [h2]Build Your Defense[/h2] Ten spires — Cannon, Archer, Frost, Storm, Ballista, Venom, Sun, Dusk, Echo and Prism — each with three tiers and a branching specialization at the top. Carry a loadout of four into battle, tune it with 7 runes, relocate a misplaced spire, and pick one of four Keeper classes with their own battlefield abilities: Builder, Warden, Mystic, or Mender. [h2]Know What's Coming[/h2] 41 kinds of Gloom walk the road — splitters, taunters, armour-smiths that shield the crowd, striders that laugh at frost, foes that resist steel and foes that resist magic. Every one of them has a counter, and the first time you meet one the game shows you what it is. No single choke point solves every map. [h2]Read the Battlefield[/h2] Every tower keeps a record. Open a spire to see its damage, DPS and kills, or hit Tab mid-wave for the full board report — damage share, live DPS, and the support work that never shows up as damage. The end-of-mission report names the tower that carried you. [h2]Choose Your Challenge[/h2] Four difficulties from Easy to Nightmare. Earn medals on every mission, chase 3-star clears, and prove yourself with Nightmare medals on all 21 — if you can. [h2]Quick Play, Endless, and the Maze[/h2] Fifteen skirmish maps across four realms in three more modes: Classic waves, Endless survival, and Maze — an open arena where you place the gates and wall your own labyrinth. Separate Endless records to push, with Steam leaderboards. [h2]Rival Keeps (PvP)[/h2] Two teams, two boards, up to 6v6. Defend your Keep while the rival team's waves pressure theirs — last light standing wins. [h2]Forge and Share[/h2] Build your own maps and full multi-mission campaigns — with story screens, custom wave tuning, even custom towers and enemies — in the built-in Forge editor, and publish them straight to Steam Workshop. Co-op-flagged community campaigns can be played together online. [h2]Earn Everything by Playing[/h2] Crystals earned in missions unlock 10 Keep skins and 6 Keeper appearances. No microtransactions, no paid currency — the shop takes crystals, not money. [h2]For our Hebrew-speaking players / לשחקנים דוברי עברית[/h2] המשחק כולו זמין בעברית — כולל ממשק מלא מימין לשמאל ודיבוב עברי מלא של כל שורות הסיפור. הגנו על לב-השחר, לבד או יחד עם חברים.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Some of the content in Dawnheart Keepers was created with the help of generative AI tools during development. All of it was made before release: the game does not generate anything with AI while you play, and it never connects to an AI service.

What that covers:

- Illustrated art - menu and story backgrounds, story scenes, the world map, character and tower portraits, and the upgrade-card plates - was made with image-generation models run locally on the developer's own machine, from prompts the developer wrote.
- The English and Hebrew voice-over was generated with ElevenLabs from scripts written by the developer.
- Sound effects were generated from written prompts, or synthesised procedurally in code.

All of it was reviewed, edited, curated and tested by the developer before it shipped, and the same applies to the trailer and store art.

The music is not AI-generated. It is written as code and synthesised by the game itself while you play, the way game soundtracks were built before recorded audio.