As an acolyte of a malevolent deity, you must construct a dungeon, defend against relentless raiders and forge a powerful idol on the path to appeasing your dark god.

The Deadly Path is a challenging yet rewarding building and resource management game that tasks players with constructing a formidable base, defending against relentless raiders, and orchestrating the construction of a powerful idol to appease their dark god.

Starting in the era of darkness, you must utilise an intuitive building system to excavate entombed tiles and create a labyrinthine network of walls, traps, and defensive structures within your occult dungeon. As you expand your base, you will uncover Ancient Ruins, Boneyards & Iron Veins, and strategically place resource generators to enrich your stockpiles. Populate your buildings with the monstrous servants at your disposal and advance through the ages to bring your dark lord into being and ensure the expansion of your malevolent domain.

Will you harness the forbidden knowledge and emerge as the harbinger of darkness, or will your base crumble beneath the weight of your enemies?

“The Deadly Path is a compelling hybrid of resource and building management with intuitive roguelike strategy,” said Joe Goddard-Howell, Junior Product Manager at Fireshine Games. “With its ‘one more go’ appeal and innovative approach to dungeon building, it’s easy to become mesmerised by its gameplay and lose hours to the game at a time. We’re very confident that The Deadly Path is a game that fans of deep strategic roguelikes will enjoy, and look forward to revealing more on the game in the months ahead.”

Key Features:

• Choose the dark deity you wish to serve: Become an acolyte of a malevolent deity of your choosing. Each deity has their own perks, building types and units to manage. Successfully appease your god by building the Idol and defending your dungeon to unlock more deities and playstyles.
• Excavate, build and populate: An easy to pick up but difficult to master game loop. Excavate Entombed tiles within the occult dungeon to expand your base, while uncovering Ancient Ruins, Boneyards & Iron Veins on which to build resource generators and enrich your stockpiles. Populate your buildings with the servants at your disposal to expand and defend against raiders.
• Advance through the ages: Start in an era of darkness and upgrade the throne, sacrifice your servants and collect blood from the unbelievers to advance through the eras. Each new age provides new buildings, additional servants and possibilities to help grow your empire.
• Build the idol to appease your dark lord: Explore outwards from your throne room and uncover new (and dangerous) biomes, beacons, portals to hell, loot and artefacts to forge the idol. Unexpected dangers await as you uncover openings for raiders to emerge from and pillage your base!

The Deadly Path is in development for PC (Steam).