About This Game

Under the quarry of Hollin Cross, an old Order buried the town's dead for four hundred years. Now the bell has started ringing on its own, and every night somebody in town hears their own name in it and goes down in the morning.

You learned to ring from the last ringer in town, so you go down after them, with a hand-bell as your magic against the dead.





Real-time combat inspired by the classic first-person dungeon crawlers, plus some new mechanics.

• Every monster turns yellow before it attacks, so step aside or raise your shield
  
• Two hands with their own cooldowns
  
• Elite monsters, tougher and with tricks of their own
  
• Every boss has a weakness, try to find it before it gets to you

Your magic comes from real church bell ringing, and every spell is a ringing pattern. You start with Rounds and find the others in books down below.

• Ringing takes a few beats, and if you move or get hit it stops, so pick your moment
  
• Rounds freezes the dead near you
  
• Plain Hunt, to see where everything is going to move
  
• Your teacher never taught you the fourth one, so you'll have to find it yourself

An action RPG with loot and a town full of quests to come back to, inspired by the classics.

• 12 floors in three acts and 3 optional floors
  
• When you finish the game, there's one more floor in NG+
  
• 49 kinds of monsters and 11 bosses
  
• 36 abilities in 3 disciplines
  
• Loot with random stats and 30 relics to find
  
• 24 quests from the people of Hollin Cross, and 4 endings
  
• Shrines heal you and save your game, so look for one when you're hurt

• Story Mode if you want to take a third of the damage, and Step mode if you want the game to wait for you. Every achievement and ending still counts with both on.
  
• Rebindable keys and full controller support
  
• Three game speeds
  
• Subtitles for every sound you need to hear, and fewer flashes and colour marks if you need them
  
• English and Brazilian Portuguese

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Below the Bell is a solo project. The story, characters, level design and game systems are the developer's own. The art, audio, text and trailers were made with the help of AI tools to speed up the work. Nothing is generated while you play.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Constant real-time combat with medieval weapons against the risen dead, skeletons and a few animals. Blows show arcs of blood and red flashes, and old blood and bodies lie on the dungeon floors. The story deals with death, grief and self-sacrifice: people from the town go down to die, among them a sixteen-year-old boy, whose death is told, not shown. Pixel art; violence is shown plainly and never lingered on.