WickBound

Wickbound

Enemies stay readable. You get to escalate.

Wickbound is a 2.5D roguelite hack-and-slash currently in active development.

Learn enemy attacks instead of simply burning through health bars. Collect souls, survive increasingly dangerous encounters, and shape each run through melee combat, Soul Shot, Nova, modules and gifts that can interact and escalate into powerful combinations.

Current Development Alpha

The current playable version already includes:

• A playable descent with multiple rooms and combat encounters
• Three core combat abilities: melee, Soul Shot and Nova
• Modules that modify and connect your abilities
• Run-based gifts and build progression
• Multiple enemy types with readable roles and attack telegraphs
• Soul collection and permanent progression
• A hub built around the Lantern
• Mutter Talg, guardian of the first descent
• Early meta-progression systems
• Adaptive combat music that escalates with the fight

Still in development

Wickbound is an early Development Alpha.

The game is playable, but it is not finished. Graphics, balancing, audio, progression, UI, enemies, bosses, story and entire parts of the game will continue to change and expand.

You should expect rough edges, unfinished systems and occasional bugs.

That is intentional at this stage.

If you buy Wickbound now, you are directly supporting its continued development and will receive future versions through this itch.io page.

What Wickbound is trying to become

I want runs to feel increasingly unique through combinations of weapons, abilities, modules, gifts and other systems that can influence each other.

The core idea is simple:

Enemies should stay understandable.
Your build is allowed to become ridiculous.

Development

Wickbound is currently developed as an independent project by Sandro.

Development happens step by step: build something, play it, understand what works, improve it, and continue from there.

Feedback during development is welcome.

Official website

sandros-modulwelt.de/wickbound/

The website contains additional gameplay footage, screenshots and information about the current development state.