
Release
Wednesday, August 12, 2026
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What it is
KNELL is a top-down survivor-roguelite with a gothic, undead theme. You pick one of nine characters and fight through waves of enemies across five maps, with a boss fight at the end of each stretch. Your weapon attacks on its own, so you spend the run moving, dodging, and choosing level-up cards to build your character. A single run takes about 20 to 30 minutes. Your only defensive move is a dodge roll, which gives a short window where you can't be hit. Features • Nine playable characters. Each has its own auto-attack, its own set of class cards, and its own ultimate ability. • Over 40 level-up cards, including chain lightning, orbiting orbs, flame rings, freezing totems, and blood explosions. You get a reroll and a banish each run to shape your draws. • Evolutions: max out a core ability and combine it with the right keystone card, and it upgrades into a stronger permanent version. You earn these by beating specific bosses. • Boss fights. A shrinking ring of fire, and each boss drops a relic that changes your later runs. • Five biomes: Overgrown Ruin, Rocky Wastes, Storm Realm, Hellscape, and Blood Desert. • Meta-progression: spend the souls you earn on permanent Armory upgrades, unlock new characters, and buy upgrades that make evolutions come sooner. Clearing the final map unlocks New Game+, and optional Dread difficulty levels make runs harder for bigger rewards. • Full controller support, rebindable controls, and an optional auto-aim. Characters • Mourne: melee, auto-swinging with a warping slash ultimate. • Harlow: a bow that fires piercing arrows in a line. • Warp: a mage with auto-bolts and a ring of elemental totems. • Crow: a grenade launcher for clearing packs. • Roan: a swordmaster with wide arcs and spinning rings of blades. • Vesper: an assassin who swaps between a sword and a spear, each with its own ultimate. • Sanguine: a heavy melee fighter who leeches health and rains firerocks. • Bram: a tank who turns into an invincible beast when his health runs low. • Malach: a summoner who fields a small army of demons. The art is from licensed pixel-art asset packs, and the game has a boss-battle soundtrack.
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