Shattered Paradise

• Shattered Paradise is a dark turn-based roguelike RPG inspired by The Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost, and the forbidden Nag Hammadi scriptures.

• Descend through Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise in the aftermath of a rebellion that shattered creation itself.

• Explore procedurally generated realms, survive brutal tactical combat, and shape your character across multiple races, classes, relics and forbidden tomes.

• Prepare to challenge God... and live with everything that follows.

THROUGH INFERNO, PURGATORY AND PARADISE

• Travel across procedurally generated realms inspired by ancient visions of the afterlife.

• Retrace Dante’s mythic journey through the circles of Hell, the terraces of Purgatory and the spheres of Paradise, crossing the river Acheron, trading within the City of Dis, and facing He Who Sits upon the Throne of God.

• Explore hostile environments filled with cosmic horrors, hidden shrines, ancient vaults, warring factions and deadly traps, as you uncover the truth behind your past lives.

• Survive in a world where the old order lies fractured and faith splinters into rival factions. The Rebel Host has been cast out and the war is over... but some whisper the False God is nowhere to be found.

BRUTAL TURN-BASED COMBAT

• Deep turn-based combat built around positioning, vision cones, sound propagation, stealth, terrain control, traps and resource management.

• Seven classic RPG core attributes and dozens of derived combat stats shape every build, including Dodge, Parry, Riposte, Crit Chance, Accuracy, Armor Penetration, Cooldown Reduction, Stealth, Resistances, Light Radius, Corruption, and elemental affinities.

• Multiple elemental and metaphysical damage types including Fire, Ice, Lightning, Nature, Light, Shadow and Mind alongside devastating afflictions like Bleed, Poison, Corrode, and Soul Rot.

• Brutal status effects with layered resistances and interactions. Fear forces retreat, Sleep breaks on impact, Stasis stores incoming damage, Disarm drops weapons to the floor, and Knockback can smash enemies into walls. Master Blind, Silence, Cripple, Curse, Root, Slow, Mark, Confuse, Weaken and more.

• Equip weapons, armor, relics, rings, amulets, light sources, gems, consumables and forbidden tomes within a deep procedural loot system with material tiers, sockets, randomized affixes and unique passives.

• Hundreds of possible gear combinations across light, medium, and heavy equipment classes, each altering movement, cooldown recovery, stealth, noise, defense, and survivability.

• Master dozens of weapon classes including swords, daggers, grimoires, bows, censers, whips, greathammers and chainblades, each with unique scaling, attack ranges, status effects, combat mechanics, and tactical roles ranging from parries and ripostes to cleaves, knockbacks, roots and disarms.

• Extensive socketing and gemcraft systems featuring rubies, sapphires, emeralds, opals and other stones that modify weapons, armor, and accessories in radically different ways.

• Enemies belong to distinct factions, creature types and behavior archetypes, with tactical behaviors ranging from simple aggression to coordinated ambushes and retreat logic.

• Higher difficulties introduce smarter AI, harsher environmental hazards, stronger enemy resistances, denser encounters, roaming elites, and stricter survival mechanics.

FORGE YOUR CHARACTER

• Choose from multiple races and classes, each with unique starting gear, attributes, signature abilities, skill categories and progression paths.

• Develop your character through powerful synergies between weapon classes, relics, factions, corruption, elemental affinities, gems and forbidden knowledge.

• Create stealth assassins, armored warriors, healers, paladins, battlemages, archers, summoners and countless hybrid builds shaped entirely by your decisions.

• Choose from multiple Bonds that shape your starting strengths, relationships and long-term character development.

• Learn active skills, passive abilities and sustained auras across multiple skill categories. Unlock new tiers of abilities as your character grows stronger, or reshape your build through respecialization consumables and forbidden rituals.

• Reach level 100 and earn Ascensions every 20 levels, unlocking powerful build-defining upgrades that radically transform your character, combat style and long-term progression.

A PERSISTENT WORLD BEYOND THE DUNGEONS

• Travel across a large handcrafted World Map connecting Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise and other distant forgotten realms through a persistent overworld shaped by discovery, faction conflict and exploration.

• Discover hidden shrines, forgotten ruins, wandering merchants, cursed monuments, ancient vaults and procedurally placed secondary dungeons scattered across dangerous biomes.

• Visit Pilgrim Havens filled with merchants, quests, crafting NPCs, faction representatives and branching dialogue tied to your choices, allegiances and progression.

• Explore unique side dungeons with their own mechanics, enemies, environmental hazards, secrets and rewards, including hidden locations locked behind rituals and lore items.

• Survive a hostile overworld where every journey can trigger ambushes, rare encounters, world events, cosmic phenomena and deadly enemies scaling alongside your descent.

• Trade memories for power, sacrifice your Virtue for forbidden knowledge, uncover hidden paths across the Afterlife and reshape future runs through the choices you make across the World Map.

EVERY DEATH LEAVES A MARK

• Death is permanent (unless playing on Explorer Mode), but your actions continue to shape future descents through a deep metaprogression system built around character progression and lore discovery.

• Earn Echoes after every death and spend them unlocking new races, classes, cosmetics, starting options, world modifiers, encounters and permanent account-wide progression.

• Visit the Graveyard to review fallen characters, their equipment, accomplishments, builds and final moments across previous expeditions.

• Encounter Vestiges of your dead characters throughout future runs as hostile wraiths, forgotten souls, unstable tomes and ancient statues scattered across the afterlife.

• Fight echo-wraiths wearing your former gear, recover lost items from past lives, and uncover fragmented memories and hidden lore left behind by previous characters.

• Discover powerful Vestige Tomes capable of teaching skills learned by dead characters at the cost of... unforeseen consequences.

A HANDCRAFTED WORLD OF MYTH, HORROR & RUIN

• Experience a dark fantasy world inspired by medieval manuscripts, Gnostic cosmology, Dante, Milton and classic 90s RPGs, blending oppressive atmosphere with massive cosmic scale.

• Explore handcrafted pixel art environments built with realistic proportions, dynamic lighting, procedural weather, water effects and advanced shader systems.

• Listen to an adaptive orchestral soundtrack featuring live string performances, dark ambient passages and dynamic combat layering that evolves seamlessly as battles unfold.

• Experience positional audio, environmental ambience, reactive music systems and an omniscient narrator who accompanies your descent.

• Discover a vast body of lore delivered through collectible scriptures, epic hand-painted cinematics, hidden memories, environmental storytelling, and fully voiced narration performed by professional actors.

• Uncover the forgotten history of creation, the fall of mankind, and your very role, both as a character and as a player, in the never-ending cycle of life, death and rebirth.

• NO AI GENERATED CONTENT. Featuring entirely handcrafted pixel art, illustration, music and writing.

• Follow development on Discord to see how Shattered Paradise is built step by step, including pixel art iterations, environment construction, animation tests, music production, lore writing, combat systems, shaders, sketches, speed-art and behind-the-scenes development footage from every stage of production.

CUSTOMIZE YOUR EXPERIENCE

• Designed to be approachable for newcomers while retaining the depth, complexity and freedom expected from classic traditional roguelikes.

• Learn through integrated tutorials, onboarding systems, contextual tooltips, detailed combat logs, visual indicators and extensive in-game explanations for stats, mechanics and status effects.

• Customize nearly every aspect of the experience with scalable UI, adjustable fonts, grid overlays, floating combat text, tooltip detail levels, auto-explore behavior, autopickup filters, accessibility options and other advanced gameplay settings.

• Fine-tune visuals, controls and interface elements through extensive audio, video and gameplay options including key rebinding, controller support, camera shake toggles, post-processing controls and customizable combat feedback.

• Tailor the challenge to your playstyle through multiple difficulty modes, automation systems, exploration safeguards and optional quality-of-life features designed to reduce friction without sacrificing depth.

FACTIONS, RITUALS & FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE

• Align yourself with rival factions inspired by Dante, Milton, Gnosticism and apocryphal scripture, each granting exclusive quests, merchants, rituals and bonuses tied directly to your build and choices.

• Join the Scions of Dis, the Choir of Thorns, the Glass Monastery and other ancient orders struggling for power in the aftermath of the War Above.

• Complete faction rituals, uncover hidden lore, hunt forbidden relics and earn the favor of prophets, saints and exiled powers scattered across the Afterlife.

• Gain access to faction-specific bonuses, abilities, merchants, upgrades, world events and long-term progression paths tied directly to your allegiance.

• Discover forgotten tomes, cursed relics and occult knowledge capable of transforming both your character and the world around you.

BEGIN YOUR JOURNEY

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