Planned Release Date: Q1 2027

About This Game

BLACKBELL is a single-player gothic cartoon auto-battler roguelite. Gather an unlikely company, decide where every fighter stands, then ring the bell and watch your plan hold or fall apart on its own.

BUILD YOUR COMPANY

Recruit fighters from the shop and watch the Traits they share. Field enough fighters with the same Trait and it wakes up for the whole company, so the right cheap recruit can matter as much as the strongest one on offer.

EVOLVE YOUR FIGHTERS

Three copies of a fighter merge into a stronger 2★ form, and three of those make a 3★. Every star level has its own drawing, so you can see the payoff on the field.

POSITION BEFORE THE BELL RINGS

There is no grid. Place each fighter anywhere on your side of the field, hand your items to the fighters who will use them best, and call the fight. After that, the company is on its own.

MAKE EVERY RUN DIFFERENT

Choose your path across each act's map: fights, markets, the Forge, Challenges, quiet places to rest, and well over a hundred events, some with stories that carry on through the run. Oddities picked up along the way bend the rules in small, strange ways.

FACE A HAUNTED WORLD

Four acts lead from the Dark Road through the Drowned Belfry and the Unlit Orrery to the Black Belfry. Each one ends with a boss that fights by its own rules, including the Sunken Tollkeeper and the Last Heliophage

CHOOSE YOUR TRAVELLER

Six Travellers can lead the company. Five of them make one kind of recruit turn up more often in the shop. The Wanderer plays it straight.

CLIMB THE ASCENSIONS

Finish a run with a Traveller to unlock their next Ascension. There are three, and each step up makes the road harder.

Build your company.
Set the stage.
Break the Bell.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Generative AI tools were used extensively during the development of BLACKBELL, including for artwork, writing, audio, code, and production support. All AI-generated content included in the shipped game is pre-generated, selected, edited, and integrated by the developer. The developer is responsible for the game's creative direction, design, curation, quality control, and final implementation.