Apollyon: River of Life
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Choice-based RPG in a dark fantasy world. Apollyon is narrative-driven, and features occult magic, spirit summoning, a deep universe, playable characters, and story progression alone or in multiplayer!
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Apollyon is a dark fantasy narrative RPG focused on choices, where you summon demons and spiritual entities, deal with them for power, and delve deeper into an occult universe! It is a multiplayer choose-your-own adventure RPG mixed with a roguelike strategy board game and hidden deckbuilder elements.In this 40+ hour game, you will:Use obsidian tokens upon the Apollyic table to control the powers of the world. Moving them upon the table influences what spirits can approach your table, which abilities you can use, as well as aiding or harming every challenge before you! Deal with three spiritual entities every round. These might be creatures of other worlds, other occult practitioners, visions of the beyond, or many, many more! They must be dealt with through violence, invocation, treaties, deception, or the like.Make difficult decisions that will change the narrative, both in small arcs and large stories for character and table alike. Your choices will matter, for better or worse!Invoke spirits of your own. You may bring some of these spirits between rituals as permanent unlocks, known as Invocations. You may also bring a small charm into every ritual, such as the Silver Timepiece to keep yourself sane while projecting into the spirit world.Play Apollyon with up to two friends, who will share the table's alignment and take on every spirit together! This creates a unique strategy only present in multiplayer. For example, your efforts to escape a hostile fire spirit might be led by the player with more Agility, or the player who has a Guard on their physical statistics, in case they fail and take damage!Unlock and play the ten playable characters, and progress their stories alone or in multiplayer! Gaining power through these skills and abilities will help you complete later missions, known as Intentions.In the world of Sartova this practice is used to evoke angelic beings, gods, and other intelligences related to souls, elements, the Themes, night terrors, disembodied voices, and even things older than the gods themselves... Through this practice, Apollyon, one may speak with them, make deals for power, capture them, or even project one's soul from their body entirely. The table can provide all of this, and it is all dangerous.Apollyon is a narrative story that will be shaped by your choices. It comprises 550,000+ words and has over 600 pieces of custom-made art in the Apollyic mosaic style. These words and pictures will not be seen in every playthrough, and nearly every line of text can react in some way to choices you've made, items you carry, or even your character's identity! For example, the scientist of magic has insights different from the man shackled to devilish deals he regrets...Head on over to Apollyon's discord to give feedback, ideas, report bugs directly to the developer, or find others to join in Apollyon!Also, find the next game in The Planar Danse on Steam, with a free demo!
Patch Notes & Announcements(22)
MINORThe Wonders of Wizardry Sale !
Hello again practitioners! Alongside minor bugfixing updates, Apollyon is participating in the Wonders of Wizardry sale this year. Now is a great time to delve back into the esoterica of the left-hand
MAJOR2.1.1 - Small bugfixing update.
Hello & welcome back to the coven, practitioners! A few rare softlocks & inaccurate clues to various mysteries in the later Intentions have been fixed & cleared up with this update. The Memory Intenti
MINORSkulltide Releases this week! See what is in the game...
The Skulltide begins! As of today, necromantic shenanigans have come to Steam, and the Planar Danse returns for a second release. Skullltide launches today with its full upgrade and gameplay loop real
MAJORApollyon 2.1 Released!
Black magic is back at it again, with the left-handed path returning with a 2.1 update! Here we have stability and balance fixes, three brand new spirits, a new character upgrade, and a fifth, hidden
MAJOR2.0.5 - MASSIVE network improvements
In addition to about a hundred minor bugs, the initial and ongoing network connection for Apollyon has been improved, leading to a ~90% reduction in network traffic. This means that disconnection/reco
MAJOR2.0.2 - Bugfixes and typos!
A number of player-reported issues were fixed here, as well as a new setting, including: Accessibility setting to increase the size of the smallest text and tooltips. Logic issues hiding some approach
MAJOR2.0.1 - Minor post-launch update
Resolve Effects chatbox correctly displays multiple effects. More effects than you can handle! Test value changes. Dictionary changes Many typos Some bugs reported by community, to get involved and re
MINORSmall balance update...
Many Tests have had their difficulty changed, and some very difficult cards erroneously shown at the very beginning have been moved back to the end. Stay closed, Guardian Gates!
MAJORApollyon Full Release!
Well fellow occultists, roguelike lovers, fantasy addicts, and more, we're here! After an EA period that took much longer than I thought it would, as things often do, Apollyon is in a finished and pol
MAJOR1.3.2.2 - Spirits, Sales, and Stories!
Hello practitioners! Normally I do not post very small updates (1.3.2.x) as these can be very often and small, but this one is interesting! First, though, I'd like to note that every update Apollyon r
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