Visceral

I can bring back your daughter. Come to my house if you care to know more.

He left. You soon realize that this farm is not right. Not at all. Between the barn and the farmhouse, the most f*cked up beings you've ever seen try to flay the skin and meat from your bones. Arm yourself with a gun and a melee weapon. You MUST survive the night.

WHAT YOU DO

VISCERAL is a turn-based roguelite with a flashlight. Every run is a night on the farm: push row by row across a hidden map, fight what's in the rooms, spend what you tear out of them, and either walk out or awake back on the barn floor for the next attempt.

Combat is about light first, then violence

The dark is the enemy's side. Anything outside your beam is nearly impossible to hit and hits back harder. Find it, pin it, then swing or shoot.

3 action points a turn. Strike, study, move the light, or flee. Items are free. Be careful not to overexert yourself.

Study the monster. One AP shows its stats, its weak point and what it's about to do. Weak points are the only way to crit. Every creature you study is written into the Notebook permanently, and each tier you reach gives you a permanent 10% chance to dodge that creature on every future run.

Nerve. Taking damage rattles you; the lower your nerve, the more damage you take. Studying can restore your nerve.

One melee weapon, one gun. Both wear out. Guns hit harder and reach further but need ammo you have to find. Charged melee blows, burst fire, captive bolts, nail drivers, a flare pistol that keeps whatever it hits lit for three turns.

Every creature has its own rules

The Ooser is blind and hunts by sound. The Harvester strikes from outside your light and is gone before you can turn. The Tearub weakens the longer you keep it lit. The Scarecrow crosses the room in a blink. Blights like the First Offering and Tender guard the worst rooms, and at the end of the fields waits something that used to be the farmer's son.

Build a night

42 weapons in three rarities, each rarity carrying more passives: self-sharpening blades, boomerang rounds, branding hits that keep a creature lit, blows that restore nerve on a crit.

Over 60 omens — relics that bend the run: more max HP, a reflector that burns your light brighter, a salesman's piece that puts a passive on your gun, and a handful of cursed ones you'll wish you'd left alone.

Items for the fight: bandages, morphine, flares, adrenaline, grenades.

Viscera is the currency. Something at the counter craves it. Buy or sell, never both, and reroll his stock if you can pay.

Die, and keep the book

Death ends the run, not the game. Every night unlocks new weapons, omens and items for the pool, and the Notebook keeps every page of Vaughan's story you found, every creature you studied, and the record of every attempt.

THE DEMO

This build is Act 1 of 3: The Fields — seven creatures, the Father's Son at the fence, and the house door. Full runs save mid-night, so quit and come back whenever you like.

Mouse and keyboard, touch, or controller.

English and Japanese (日本語対応).

Pixel art at 480×270, drawn with code; plays in the browser or as a Windows download.

AI only used to aide in coding.

A game by EERIECAST .

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