Every attack is telegraphed. Every mistake is yours. Fight your way down.
Play in your browserDeepward is a quarter-view 3D action dungeon crawler. There is no town to run and no army to command: the whole game is the fight. Each dungeon tier demands a skill the last one didn't: spacing, then dodging, blocking, parrying, and reading feints.
Enemy attacks are telegraphed, so every hit you take is one you could have avoided. Dash out of charges, block and parry blows, and punish the openings.
Equip a helm, armour, gloves, boots, weapon, shield, trinket and ring, see your hero in 3D wearing it, and compare every piece against what you have on. Craft, temper and salvage at camp.
Leave the Hold by the south gate into an open field with a day and night cycle: wolves and boars in the Meadow, goblins in Thornwood, the dead of the Old Graveyard, and field bosses and hulking monsters on the Broken Ridge.