You wake on a floor of grey feathers, with a coal in your chest and no name. Somewhere far above is the light you fell from.
A co-op action RPG in the spirit of Path of Exile. Climb back through the hordes, alone or with three friends.
A playable co-op build exists. The paintings are where it is going.
Four promises, and what stands behind each one in the build today.
Art in progressHundreds of monsters on screen is the normal case, and thousands is a good night. Performance is a feature: every system has a budget and is measured before and after it changes, so the screen can fill up the way Path of Exile's does.
Measured on an M2 Pro, 2,000 monsters crowding a player: the simulation takes 0.46 ms/tick avg, p99 0.66 (1.4% of budget), and the client draws them at 82 FPS at Retina resolution.
Loot with random affixes, currency that changes items rather than buying them, skill gems with their own supports, and a passive tree. Two players should never build the same character by accident.
In the game: 45 item bases, 34 affixes with up to five tiers, 7 uniques and 8 currencies, an inventory and crafting.
Everything works solo. With friends it is two to four players on a server that owns the world, and everyone gets their own drops, so nobody races for loot. One coal dies; a heap of them burns till morning.
Running: an authoritative server at 30 ticks a second, your own movement predicted. With 2,000 monsters around you, snapshots cost 2.5 KB, 74 KB/s per client. Solo is the same server on your machine.
Road to Redemption is never finished. New monsters, skills, items and depths keep arriving, and the game you play next month is bigger than this one without being slower. The wiki is generated from the game's code, so it grows with it.
Today: six monster families, six skills, endless generated depths.
Every fallen who reaches the top brings one more question than it took up.
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Art in progress
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Art in progressThe worldHeaven, the world below it, and what nobody will say.
Art in progressHow it playsCombat, loot, crafting, builds, and friends.
Art in progressThe build plannerMake a character, computed by the game's own code.
Art in progressThe wikiEvery monster, skill and item, generated from the code.
Art in progressWhere it standsThe build today, real renders, and what comes next.There is a playable build: stand-in models under real lighting, a fixed cast of monsters and skills, loot and crafting, and caves that go on forever. That is the deep where the climb begins, without the acts above it. The paintings on this site are where it is heading; the frames below are what it looks like today.
Real renders from the current build: placeholder art, real hordes
Numbers are measured and published with how they were taken: see Built for hordes and the roadmap. Every page is marked In game, Decided or Concept, so you can tell which is which.
