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About This Game

Parry, and time stops. Then you draw.

When you parry at the right moment, the fight almost stops. You get one stroke of ink, and the stroke is your attack.

A line goes through one enemy and hits hard. A loop around a group hits everyone inside it at once, and the more it holds, the harder it hits. The ink runs out fast, so most of the game is deciding where to spend it.

If you parry too early, you take the hit. There is a white flash just before every swing lands. That flash is the moment.

Fifteen floors, one life

Each floor gives you three doors. The quiet one is easier. The dangerous one has an elite enemy and a better reward. The middle one sometimes asks a price, like 12 max health for good, and you can say no.

Rooms have things in them. Pillars stop your ink, and they break if you hit them enough. A powder barrel explodes when your stroke touches it. A bell pulls enemies together so one loop can take them all.

Seven bosses

Each run you meet three of them, one at the end of each act. Beat one and you keep its trophy for the rest of the run, and it changes how you play.

More shapes

The line and the loop are only the start. A figure eight and a spiral do different things, and some relics only work with one shape. Pick the wrong shape and the stroke is wasted.

Ranks

After you win, you can climb again at a higher rank. There are five. Each rank adds a new rule. Enemies do not just get more health.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

The game has fantasy combat violence. You fight monsters with hands and with lines of ink. When something is hit, red blood splashes on the floor, and some stains stay on the walls and objects until the room ends. One boss leaves pools of blood on the floor. Enemies and the player are small flat figures, there is no gore and no body parts. When you die, your figure falls and the run ends.

There is no sexual content, no drugs or alcohol, no self-harm, and no story.