Nescient
A hardcore turn-based traditional roguelike where you explore a surreal city. Fight tactically, manage wounds, shape your own magic, and leave lasting consequences across every run.
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A hardcore turn-based traditional roguelike where you explore a surreal city. Fight tactically, manage wounds, shape your own magic, and leave lasting consequences across every run.
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About This Game
A city built upon forgotten rituals. A journey through dreams and initiation. Every station leads somewhere stranger.
You wake up aboard a subway train.
Every journey ends the same way.
Every awakening leaves something behind.
Beyond its doors lies a city that feels strangely familiar. A distorted reflection of the ordinary, where every encounter seems to know more about you than you do.
Every time you wake up, the city remembers.
Death is permanent. Nothing else is.
A hardcore turn-based roguelike with permanent death and lasting consequences.
Create your own Chaos Magick sigils by combining words and ideas into entirely new magical effects.
Meaningful conversations that can change far more than the present.
Tactical turn-based combat featuring localized and realistic injuries and a mix of traditional and modern weapons.
A living world with NPCs and factions that react to your actions and dialogue choices.
Procedurally generated districts filled with secrets.
Atmospheric pixel art enhanced by dynamic colored lighting.
Original soundtrack.
Explore rhizomatic territories shaped by Kabbalah, Thelema and contemporary theory-fiction.
Some questions can only be answered by waking up again.
