SCP-9779-JP demo is now available to play!

Step into a remote SCP facility in the underground of an old Japanese mansion and experience the first section of the investigation surrounding SCP-9779-JP — an anomalous entity capable of disrupting electricity around itself, plunging entire areas into darkness and causing total chaos.

What awaits for you in the demo:

🏚 Exploration of the SCP-modified Japanese mansion

🔦 Tension-focused atmosphere and sudden electronic failures

🧩 A few puzzles

🧪 A first look at the underground laboratory and the events that unfolded there

🎧 Localization and voiceover in English, Russian, Chinese, Ukrainian, Belarusian

Your mission:

Restore power, navigate through the darkened facility, and return SCP-9779-JP to its containment chamber.

If you enjoy the demo, please add the game to your wishlist — it greatly supports the upcoming release on January 15.

Thank you!

Stay safe, SCP personnel.

Hey everyone, Phillip here again, Game Director on Dimraeth. Today’s focus is character creation: race, class, archetypes, attributes, Personas, and how all of these pieces are wired together under the hood to support the kind of long-form, theory-heavy character-building RPG we’re trying to make.

In Dimraeth, character creation is one of the most important decisions you can make. It’s the point where you choose your race, class, persona, and appearance – and that choice becomes the beginning of your character-building journey, which sits at the centre of Dimraeth’s experience. This update is a look at how those pieces fit together, and why we’ve built the system the way we have.

Your first major decisions are your race and your class. These two choices are the seed from which your character will grow. The combination of race and class defines your archetype, and every archetype gets its own unique skill tree – built as a blend of race, class, and that archetype’s identity.

These archetype trees are where you’ll find spells and passives that no other archetype can use. They are the anchor of your build: the core set of tools, synergies, and power spikes that you will build around. What we want to achieve with this system is simple: give you strong anchor points that encourage theorycrafting, and let you branch out into hundreds of possible builds while still feeling like your character has a clear, distinct identity.

In combat, your race isn’t just flavor, it’s your base kit. A Minotaur will always be a heavy, axe-wielding frontline presence, even if you lean into a more ranged class; a Fairy will always fight as a staff-wielding caster, even if you choose Brawler. The combination of race and class is what decides whether you’re dashing into the thick of it, kiting at the edge of the fight, or setting up control from the back line – your entire default playstyle flows from that first choice.

Your race and class also define how your attributes scale. In Dimraeth, it costs XP to level up your attributes. The XP cost of each attribute is primarily determined by your race–class combination. That means it is significantly more expensive for a Fairy Magician to raise Strength than it is for a Minotaur Brawler, and if you spend a lot of XP pushing into your “off” stats, you will end up with fewer total attribute points by the time you reach max level.

The goal of this attribute scaling system is twofold. First, we want every race–class combination to have clear strengths and weaknesses, so that different archetypes naturally lean into different build paths. Second, we want to encourage thoughtful attribute distribution: you will need to manage breakpoints and plan around specific spells or items you care about. Maybe you want a physical-based spell on your Fairy Magician, or a key magical spell on your Minotaur Brawler – you can do that, but you will have to weigh the XP cost of reaching those minimum requirements against investing more heavily into your primary attributes.

There is a third element tied to your race–class combination: the archetype passive. This is a simple passive that adds an extra benefit to one of your attributes. For example, the Minotaur Brawler (a Vanguard archetype) gains bonus stamina whenever they level Strength, whereas other archetypes do not. Effectively, each archetype has a “primary” attribute that gives you the most value per point, pushing you toward certain builds while still leaving room to experiment.

In co-op, the archetype trees and attribute scaling are where party identities come from. One player might build a Minotaur Mage (Earthshaker) around spreading fire and proccing passives whenever enemies are Burning, while another builds a Human Mage (Elemental Ranger) that turns any existing fire on the field into high-impact single-target nukes. The result is a party that doesn’t just “have two mages,” but a coordinated Burning engine – a build that only exists because of how those archetypes, passives, and attributes stack across players. We want parties to feel like carefully tuned machines built by their players, where the most satisfying moments come from combos you planned ten levels ago finally snapping into place.

Once the heavy systems are out of the way, we come to character customisation. As a pixel art game with a large number of races, adding customisation has not been trivial, but we knew it was important for players to be able to see “their” character in the world.

We’ve added colour customisation for hair, skin, and clothing across all races. Within the constraints of our art style, this lets you tune the look of your character in a way that still respects the visual identity of each race. It’s not a full 3D morphing system, but it’s enough to make your character feel like yours.

One of the more unique elements of Dimraeth is the Persona system, which acts as your character’s personality layer in dialogue encounters. Your choice of Persona adds flavour to your dialogue options in conversations, giving you more room to role-play and adding variety when you’re playing in multiplayer.

Choosing a Persona does not lock you into a single style of dialogue forever. Instead, it increases the frequency of certain types of responses. If you decide you want your character to shift over time, you can simply start choosing different types of options, and your “behaviour” in conversations will trend in that direction. Long term, our intent is to let Personas evolve, allowing combinations and more unique dialogue patterns to emerge from how you actually play.

In a tense conversation, this shows up immediately. A Joker persona might cut through the tension with a sharp, ill-timed joke, while a Stoic persona brushes past the emotion of the moment and goes straight to the point. You are still choosing your lines, but your Persona biases which kinds of options appear more often: the Hero leans toward principled, sacrificial answers, the Scholar toward probing questions and analysis, the Joker toward irreverence, the Stoic toward blunt clarity.

Right now, our Persona options include Hero, Stoic, Scholar, and Joker. Each of these influences how your character tends to speak, how they respond to situations, and how they come across to other characters – without forcing you into a single rigid archetype.

When you put all of these variables together – race, class, archetype skill tree, attribute scaling, archetype passive, appearance, and Persona – our aim is to provide a huge amount of replayability from the very first screen. Dimraeth is built around the idea that understanding the system is itself a power fantasy: the more you internalise how stats, archetypes, and passives interact, the more you can bend the game around a build that feels uniquely yours. With our intended 1.0 roster of 8+ races and 6 classes, that already gives us at least 48 archetypes, each with its own unique tree and passive.

Our hope is that you will feel encouraged to try new archetypes with friends across different worlds, explore different Personas, and push into strange or “off-meta” builds just to see what happens. Character creation in Dimraeth is not just a cosmetic step; it’s the foundation for the kind of character-building RPG we’re trying to make.

So now for some broader development news. Over here at Mudtek we’ve been heads-down in content production, building out the areas, enemies, quests, and archetypes we want to showcase in our upcoming demo and, beyond that, our Early Access release. We’ve already made updates to our tutorial region and are in the process of adding a whole new area, along with a new batch of enemies: the Goblins. There isn’t too much we can share in detail just yet, but expect more concrete updates as we get closer – especially as we move into the new year.

If you’re interested in what you’ve seen here, please consider wishlisting and following Dimraeth on Steam if you haven’t already – it genuinely helps us a lot and makes it easier for us to keep building the kind of RPG we’ve outlined above. And if you’re curious about other aspects of the game, or there’s a system you’d like us to cover in a future post, let us know in the comments.

You can also join our Discord at https://www.discord.gg/dimraeth to talk builds, theorycraft archetypes, and follow development more closely alongside the rest of the community.

A minor update is now live, focusing on smoother movement and more consistent interactions inside the bazaar.

Fixed a problematic navigation spot in the courtyard where characters could take incorrect paths or get stuck.
Movement is now more fluid for all NPCs.

Adjusted AI behavior to improve how NPCs react and respond when engaging with the main character.
Encounters should now feel more natural and stable.

More refinements and content updates are coming — thank you for playing Sins of the Desert! 🌙✨

• New Map: Frostveil Orbits.

• Planet atmospheres, backgrounds, lighting, and eclipse calculations were reworked to remove visual glitches.

• Every asteroid now rotates correctly and can be selected or focused.

• Increased the omnidirectional thrust boost engines give to 15%.

• Hold Position now truly locks units in place even while attempting to shoot from beyond range.

• Frigate flamethrowers now require their dedicated research unlock to keep tech progression consistent.

• Patrol routes resume automatically after aggressive excursions, preventing idle escorts.

• Fixed an issue that caused Rally Points to not move.

• Fixed an issue that caused enemy stations to be immobile after loading from save files.

• Selecting units with a mortar equipped now shows the correct weapon icons in the Selection Panel

• In-game roadmap update.

• Manual Input panel power sliders respond immediately when switching ships.

• Deck Panel health bars stay in sync when recycling units

• Biominer harvesting produces a smoke effect for readability.

• Narrative speech now waits for a short pause after loading certain scenes, preventing abrupt overlaps.

• Unit audio messages when entering clouds are now less frequent and are no longer triggered when exiting and re-entering.

• Fixed an issue where NPCs and monsters would respawn under certain circumstances after loading a save.

• Fixed an issue where the Bamboo Valley Arena was still unavailable for challenges and tournaments after completing the Mystery of the Wuxia quest.

• Improved the screenshot during saving; it's no longer as dark as before.

I want to tell you about what the game will be like at the end of early access.

• more weapons

• more abilities

• more enemies

• more rooms

• more music

It is obvious that there is not enough content in the game yet. I hope players can give me ideas to improve the game

A big item on the roadmap is survival mode. Endless mode using open content.

At the moment, rooms always have the same enemies. In the future, I plan to implement one of the improvement options: random appearance of enemies and level generation, or simply a very large number of rooms

There are plans to add a more difficult mode in the future. I want to make a truly interesting complication for players

• Patch improves traffic variety and removes noticeable repetition

◇开放时间◇

11月19日 维护后 - 12月17日 10:00

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Hello gamers,

With the trend of video game prices rising these days, we want to do the opposite. Because, fortunately or unfortunately, we don't invest heavily in the development of each project, it's possible to do so. This won't compromise quality; those who have played our games know that from one game to the next, we see nothing but innovation and new learning.

Look forward to our next project!