About This Demo

CASE: THE WORLD.

VERDICT: GUILTY.

The Judge knew not everyone was guilty.

He condemned the whole world anyway.

Now Corruption carries out the sentence: devouring the last lands and leaving the Void behind. You have already died trying to stop it. The Architect rebuilt you from ash.

Ashen Swarm is a gothic bullet heaven roguelite where deadly sins become weapons and the court gathers above you during each run.

TURN SIN INTO A WEAPON

Combine skills as you level up, shape your build, and unlock the devastating ability at the end of each branch.

Pride drowns the swarm in filth, turns the rabble into squealing swine, and blows the herd apart. Wrath spreads fire through the crowd and burns the condemned to ash. Gluttony turns the fallen into food until the arena becomes a feast.

KEEP YOUR OATH. OR EMBRACE CORRUPTION.

Keep your Oath to develop the Fidelity branch, or enter without it to pursue Corruption. Each path changes your hero’s ability and the skills you can build around it. Accept a Tempter bargain with a Corruption cost and your Oath breaks: your acquired Fidelity upgrades turn into Corruption skills. You gain new power, but face more dangerous enemies.

YOUR CHOICES HAVE CONSEQUENCES

A warrior asks you to watch her technique. She is good. Perhaps she will soon be better than you.

Encourage her—or show her a flawed move and call it advice. She will thank you either way.

On a later run, you will find her again—teaching new recruits or lying beside a broken blade.

And you have another choice to make.

TAKE YOUR CHOICES INTO THE NEXT RUN

Your decisions earn Sin Artifacts or Virtue Seals that stay with you even after death. Activate them in the Pyramid, then equip them before the next run. When a story continues, your next decision can strengthen your first reward or earn its counterpart.

THE COURT GATHERS ABOVE YOU

Every minute, another Juror takes a seat. At 13:13, the Foreman takes the thirteenth—and the Collegium descends into the arena to carry out the sentence.

IN THIS DEMO

• Two heroes with different abilities; unlock the second as you play.
  
• One combat arena, with the Collegium arriving at 13:13 to fight you.
  
• Three stories, each in two acts, with different outcomes.
  
• Five skill branches: three shared Sin branches, plus Fidelity under the Oath or Corruption without it.
  
• Permanent artifacts, equipment choices, and upgrades between runs.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Ashen Swarm Demo features intense fantasy combat against large hordes of creatures. It contains stylized violence and gore, including enemies disintegrating into ash, and occasional mild profanity in text-based narrative events. Players encounter dark fantasy themes and moral dilemmas involving textual descriptions of sacrifice or physical harm.