Deathbound

Embark on a journey about mortality, identity, fanaticism and grief. Absorb the Essences of dead warriors from 5 different classes and transform into them, switching between their skill sets and game modes, in this soulslike action RPG.

Explore Zieminal, a medieval world risen from technological ruins as the Prisoner of a Thousand Faces, a creature trapped between life and death. Race against time to face your creators, fanatical cultists in search of eternal life, before the powerful Church of Death captures them and executes them as heretics.

Features

Absorb Essences: Capture the Essences of up to 15 characters from 5 different classes, each with their own abilities, game modes, personalities and story.

Transform: Assemble a team of up to 4 captured Essences and switch between them during the game - even during combat. Combine the skills of different characters with strategy to overcome obstacles.

Fight: Face fierce enemies that require more than brute force to be defeated. Skillfully coordinate your attacks as you switch between Essences to unleash devastating attacks.

Live the conflict: Each Essence is a character with a past and point of view - many of them antagonistic. Conflicts give bonuses and penalties, and take the story in unexpected turns. Know how to exploit the weaknesses and strengths of having saints and sinners, victims and executioners under the same skin.

Live the world: Explore Zieminal, a world that intertwines a technological past and a medieval present, home to diverse cultures. Choose your side in the conflict between the Church of Death and the Cult to Life - or walk your own path.

Live the story: Experience a mature narrative that addresses serious topics such as religious fanaticism, the finitude of life and the horrors of war. See the conflicts of the characters reflected in the course of the game.

Story

Eons ago, Goddess Life had deceived her sister, Goddess Death, to steal her powers and create the First Men, a race of beings unable to die. Alive for thousands of years, they erected a powerful and advanced civilization, with magic-like technology and continent-spanning cities.

But Goddess Death would not settle for being deceived, and began to slowly seduced these immortal people, overwhelmed by an existence that would never come to an end. Eventually, they gave up their immortality, and their society collapsed overnight.

Centuries later, a new civilization emerged from the wreckage of the old world and, with it, the desire to deceive Death once again. For years, the Essencemancers, a zealot sect of scholars of the forbidden knowledge, have tried to perfect a ritual that, with the use of the First Men's long-lost technology, would allow for eternal life - but at a terrible cost.

You are the result of these experiments.

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