Planned Release Date: Sep 1, 2026

About This Demo

A CARAVAN ON THE BRINK OF COLLAPSE

Experience the first region of The Black Breath.

In this demo, take command of a caravan of survivors as it crosses the Burning Forest, trying to stay ahead of the spreading pestilence known as the Black Breath.

Manage scarce resources, choose your path through a procedurally connected map, face unexpected events, and rely on your heroes to protect the caravan in tactical turn-based battles.

DEMO FEATURES:

• Manage the caravan’s scarce resources to keep its civilians alive.

• Explore the Burning Forest, with its own enemies, climate, events, and dangers.

• Travel across maps made up of procedurally connected nodes and decide which route to follow using the information you have gathered.

• Encounter different Retinues that may join the caravan and provide unique benefits.

• Build a party from six different character classes, each with distinct traits, abilities, and development possibilities.

• Defend the caravan in turn-based tactical battles fought across opposing grids, where positioning and party composition are essential.

• Experience the beginning of the caravan’s journey toward the Port City of Serria.

  

TURN-BASED TACTICAL BATTLES

The Black Breath features a turn-based tactical combat system in which positioning can decide every encounter. Battles take place across opposing grids that force your characters into direct confrontation with enemies possessing different behaviors, strengths, and weaknesses.

As the Black Breath grows stronger, some threats will become increasingly dangerous.

Your characters can develop through their abilities, equipment, and traits, while their condition during the journey also matters. They may become sick, suffer from fatigue, gain or lose morale, or even die permanently.

Outside of battle, each character can perform activities that contribute to the survival of the caravan, making the decisions you take between encounters just as important as those you make during combat.

A DEATH RATTLE

After his destruction at the hands of humanity’s united forces, the Lich Kadryn released, with his final breath, a pestilence of death and decay that condemned every living creature on the Great Blue Peninsula.

Several caravans of desperate survivors began forming throughout the region, all hoping to flee toward the Port of Serria, where dozens of ships are being prepared to carry them safely across the ocean and away from the Black Breath.

This demo contains the first region of The Black Breath and represents a portion of the full game.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Some assets in the game were created with AI tools.
As a solo developer, I used AI selectively to support asset production while manually reviewing, and adapting everything to the game’s visual style.
The game does not use generative AI during gameplay.