Planned Release Date: Q4 2026

About This Game

Unrooted In Darkness. Forged in light.

The Buried Light is a retro-stylized action roguelike and top-down arena shooter set in the lightless world of trees where ancient forests burrowed underground.

For forty generations, the sentient trees of Arçuray have known nothing but a lightless void. Erlik, has sieged their world, leaving the surface to wither and rot. To survive, trees consumed the very marrow of the earth's stones.

They are not spaceships inside shining barriers.

They are bark, roots, branches, and WRATH!

Transformed by desperation and evolved into towering botanical war machines, they rise from the depths. To reclaim the sun for their kin, they weave through punishing bullet hells, and destroy Erlik’s legions by becoming the bullet hells.

Push Back The Legions Of Erlik

They swarm from every side. Erlik’s legions flood the arena in relentless waves.

Keep moving, aim fast, read the attack patterns, and turn the dark into a storm of thorns, roots, branches, and lighted sticks to shoot. Positioning, timing, and relentless firepower are your way against this day-blocking siege. Every wave pushes you deeper into a war for the sun.

Selectively Breed Your Perfect Build

Each run gives you new ways to breed your botanical war machine. Deep build-crafting is at the heart of this survival. Progress through waves, and choose from a massive pool of perks, and combine multiple active skills to overcome this challenge.

Unlock and play as multiple unique War-Trees. Choose the breed that fits your playstyle—whether it's the fast, precise, sniper-focused Kav'akk, or the heavy-hitting, defensive Guerr’gen. Turn survival into domination. No two runs need to bloom the same way.

Unforgiving Bullet Hell Waves and Bullet Heaven Combat

The Buried Light blends top-down arena shooting madness with roguelike buildcraft and punishing bullet hell and heaven mechanics.

• Fight off relentless waves of cosmic beasts in all directions.

• Choose upgrades that reshape your weapons and synergize your loadout.

• Unlock and master distinct War-Trees to make your playstyle.

• Weave through challenging, screen-painting attack patterns.

• Immerse yourself in a striking, retro-pixelated monochrome aesthetic.

• Battle to the beat of a heavy, low-octave bass soundtrack and crunchy, themed sound effects.

Botanical War Machines. Mythical Evolution. Cosmic Setting.

This is the world of tree folks where forests did not die in the dark. They mutated.

Sentient forests learned to drink the stones marrow and eventually become heavy war machines. A desolate, monochrome world pulses to the heavy beat of desperation.

Against you stand the legions of Erlik: merciless, terrifying, endless.

Against them stands the Breeds of that era of wisdom, The Buried Light.

The forest evolved.

Now the void will bleed.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Artificial Intelligence Usage Notice:

We have used some generative models to prototype new ideas, and some of them have been made into production. However, AI-generated content is no more than 1% of the total game assets and arts.