About This Demo

DEMO: the Bozkır steppe, 4 playable Kam, the first night and its khan. The full game adds 5 more Kam, Karaorman (the Blackwood) and the Unending Night. Wishlist ERLIK to be there on the first night. Your demo progress carries over to the full game on the same PC.

Draw the steppe's restless dead onto your blades and survive the Long Night. But how you survive is the choice that defines you.

TWO OPPOSING WAYS TO PLAY: MECHANICALLY, NOT COSMETICALLY

Every run drifts along the Erlik ↔ Tengri axis, a sliding scale between corruption and light:

• Erlik (corruption): savage damage, crits and lifesteal… but your max health burns away and every hit you take cuts deeper.

• Tengri (the light): regeneration, cleansing and shields… at a lower damage ceiling.

Your weapons evolve down both paths. The same weapon and passive fork differently depending on which way you've leaned, so the same starting kit can end the night as something else entirely.

The axis is the game.

THE FOUR DIRECTIONS

At the far edges of every run, four ancient altars rise from the steppe, each guarded by a warden horror. Reaching them is a pilgrimage in itself. Claim the two halves of a cursed blade and unite them into the Sword of God… if you can stomach the bargain that comes with it.

EARLY ACCESS FEATURES

• 9 playable Kam (shamans), each with a distinct spirit and axis lean

• 24 base weapons + 45 evolutions, most of them forking by your axis, then five power ranks beyond evolution

• 16 passives, including the axis-steering Cleansing and Grace

• Two complete biomes: the moonlit Steppe and Karaorman, the Blackwood, each with its own signature boss

• A living bestiary: chasers, plague-wraiths, splitters, nightmare-orbs, elites and six named mini-bosses

• Unending Night mode beyond the 30-minute climax

• The Kut Hearth: permanent meta-progression between runs

• Kam's Path: 100+ Törü, the unwritten laws of the ancestors. Keeping them opens new weapons, Kam and union recipes, and every night brings two to keep

• Weapon unions: two weapons at level 10 fuse into one, the Guide Wolf in the light or the Black Cauldron in the dark, freeing a slot

• Reroll and Banish on the level-up screen, with Sacrifice earned along Kam’s Path, plus rare Great Chests that open five rewards at once, painted by your axis

• Full controller support (Xbox, PlayStation and Switch glyphs) + accessibility options

• Pixel art and an original adaptive soundtrack that builds as the night deepens

• Full localization in 20 languages

A FOLK-HORROR STORY NO ONE ELSE IS TELLING

Not Norse, not generic dark fantasy: Turkic and Anatolian myth. Kam shamans, the underworld god Erlik, the sky-father Tengri, and the horrors of the steppe night: Gulyabani, Karabasan, the one-eyed Tepegöz. A world you haven't survived before.

Most survivors games ask "what's the strongest build?" ERLIK asks "who do you become to survive?"

Cross into dawn, or be consumed.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

ERLIK is made by a solo developer: the game design, the folklore, the balance and the English writing are my own. Generative AI tools were used in the production pipelines for the art, the music and the sound effects; every asset was then selected, edited and polished by hand before entering the game. The 19 non-English translations were AI-assisted and then reviewed. No content is generated while you play; everything is fixed at build time.