Nightwatch

Survive the night. Hunt what hunts you.

Nightwatch is a dark-fantasy swarm survival game with Diablo-style loot. Pick a hero, step through the portal and hold the line against hundreds of creatures of the night. Your abilities fire on their own: you move, dodge, dash and loot.

Three heroes

• Warrior: spectral swords orbit you, phantom copies of yourself charge into the horde, and Earthquake splits the ground to slow everything around you.
• Gunslinger: an armoured soldier with buckshot, frag grenades, homing rocket barrages and deployable sentry turrets.
• Mage: fireballs, lightning, frost novas and fire bombs that set the ground ablaze.

Three acts

• Act I: The Night Falls: the Wilds, the Graveyard and Lady Nightshade's three-phase fight in the Blood Chapel.
• Act II: The Ashen Peaks: volcanic country full of lava, caves and raptors. Cross the Smouldering Fen and the Obsidian Pass, then face Kragmaw in the Caldera, with fire tsunamis, firestorms and animal invasions.
• Act III: The Veil Unwoven: the fae realm. Ranged and area attacks, merciless mechanics and the Veilstorm, where you find shelter or die. Queen Mab, the Thorn Queen, drags you through three worlds before the eclipse.

Features

• Survive the swarm in each zone, slay the mini-bosses and take on an act boss at the end of every act.
• Level-up cards in rarities, some of which upgrade your abilities, plus a build bar that shows what you're running.
• Act skills: after each act boss you pick 1 of 3 new powers.
• Random loot with affixes and item levels that grow with you, item sets with set bonuses, and rare uniques from bosses.
• A farm ladder: every act has its own level band, and the loot gets better the deeper you push.
• Train a loadout of 3 abilities with gold, up to level 30, with big upgrades at 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30.
• A permanent character level with PowerUps at the Altar of the Night: Might, Armor, Magic Resistance, Revival and more.
• Fae bargains from The Bargainer, potions on your belt, and a dash with 2 charges.
• Three save slots and a shared stash to pass loot between your heroes.
• Gothic pixel art, dynamic lighting, weather and music for every act.

Controls

• WASD: move
• Shift: dash
• 1 / 2 / 3: potions
• E: talk / use (in town), closes menus
• I: backpack
• T: portal to town
• O: options and volume
• N: damage numbers on/off
• M: sound on/off

In active development. Feedback is very welcome in the comments!

Credits

Pixel art: the Gothicvania series by ansimuz (CC0). Font: Tiny5 (SIL Open Font License). Sound effects and music from licensed asset packs.