Planned Release Date: Nov 26, 2026

About This Game

The stories are escaping. Put them back.

In a tower of sealed books, the stories wake up at night. Wolves, witches, giants, wicked queens and more climb out of the pages and flood the halls. As the librarian, equip the heroes of those stories with books and fight back. Which books to collect, how to grow them: every run comes down to split-second decisions and your build.

Features

• Build, don't aim: your books attack on their own. You move, dash and choose.
  
• Choose where your charms go: the book you slot a charm into shapes your build.
  
• Evolve your books: max out a book, add its partner charm and partner item, then open a high-rank chest to unleash its evolved form.
  
• Chests that rank up: a chest can climb through six colors as it opens. Then pick one of three rewards.
  
• Read the boss, then dodge: mid-bosses and stage bosses warn you before their big attacks. Learn the signs and dash out.
  
• Carry your build forward: defeat a stage boss and take everything into the next stage, or stay and see how long you last.
  
• A trap in every stage: each stage has its own trap you can turn against the horde.
  
• A shelf full of quests: complete quests to unlock new books, items, charms and heroes.
  
• Heroes from old tales: play as heroes from fairy tales, folklore and legends, each with a different starting book and strengths.
  
• Keyboard or gamepad: full controller support.

What's inside

• 3 stages: the Black Forest, the Hexbound Castle and the Land of Ice
  
• 19 playable heroes
  
• 18 books, each with its own evolution
  
• 18 items and 12 charms
  
• 20 permanent power-ups bought with coins

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

This game contains pre-generated AI content. Here is exactly how it was used.

Art:
We used an AI image generator (ChatGPT by OpenAI) to create the base designs for the playable heroes, enemies and bosses, most spell and boss-attack effects, item icons, stage props, menu backgrounds, the opening and ending illustrations, the title logo, our studio logo and the store capsule art.
No AI image is used as-is. Every image was converted to a strict pixel grid, reduced to a small color palette and animated frame by frame. This conversion and animation work was done with scripts written by an AI coding assistant (Claude by Anthropic). Our team reviewed every result and made the final choices.

Music and sound:
The music and our original sound effects were created with the help of an AI assistant (Claude by Anthropic), which generated them as code. We directed, selected and adjusted the results.

Text and translation:
Some in-game text, such as the opening and ending story and the item descriptions, was written with the help of an AI assistant (Claude by Anthropic) and reviewed by us. Translations of the game text are made with the same AI assistant.

No AI while you play:
The game does not use AI while it runs. Nothing is generated during play.

Not made with AI:
The floor tiles and some effects come from CC0 asset packs made by human artists, and many sound effects come from CC0 sound libraries. All design decisions were made by our two-person team.