Press Kits

Fact sheet

Description

The Doom Herald is waking. Your guild has until the clock runs out.

Doomward is a roguelike autobattler where you never swing a sword. Every fight plays itself. You win before it starts: who you hire, how you specialize them, what they wear, and the rules they follow once the blades come out. Death is permanent. There are no revives.

Key features

• The Guild. Hire from a deep roster of classes, choose each hero's specialization and lend them abilities from other classes, then write their rules. Heroes leave states on their foes and others cash them in: chill, freeze, shatter; oil, then light. The combos are the strategy.
• The Road. Every expedition costs Doom. Pick your road on the world map, make real choices at forks in the road, and take contracts that bet on how the expedition will go. As the clock ticks down, Harbingers lay siege to your town.
• The Herald. Climb the Monolith and face the Herald: a raid boss fought in phases, with telegraphs, adds and enrages your heroes have to answer on their own. Hits, kills and fallen heroes charge the Doombreaker, a party ultimate.
• Together. Co-op for 2–4 players with one shared Doom Clock, rival runs (1v1 and 2v2) that end in a final battle, and a draft-based PvP Arena. Online through Steam, LAN or Direct Connect.
• And more. Daily Doom and Weekly Doom with Steam leaderboards, Edicts that twist the rules, full controller support with its own interface, made for handhelds, Steam Achievements and Steam Cloud saves.