Announcing Survivors of Nightfall Online: a dark-fantasy pixel-art roguelike
Our next game is a 16-bit survivors-like built for short, brutal runs: pick a hero, survive the horde for six minutes, then face the boss.
Magikon Games · 4 min read ·
Magikon Games is a small indie studio, and today we are pulling back the curtain on our biggest project yet: Survivors of Nightfall Online, a dark-fantasy, 16-bit pixel-art survivors-like.
If you have played a "survivors" game before, you know the feeling: one hero, an endless horde and a build that grows stronger every minute until the screen is pure chaos. Survivors of Nightfall Online takes that loop and wraps it in a grim night world full of graveyards, bogs, frozen tundra and burning wastes.
How a run works
Every run lasts six minutes. You pick a hero and a stage, then fight your way through the swarm. Enemies drop XP gems; every level-up lets you draft one of three cards: a new weapon, a passive, gold or healing. You get three rerolls per run, so choose carefully.
Elites and mini-bosses drop treasure chests and Fate Cards, powerful augments that can bend a whole run. Push a weapon to level 8, own its matching passive and open a chest to trigger a weapon evolution.
At 6:00 the boss arrives. Kill it and you win the stage. At half health it enters Phase II, calls in reinforcements and attacks much faster.
What is in the game
- 6 heroes, from the common Iron Warden to the legendary Void Stalker, each with their own stats and a signature weapon (meet them here).
- 58 weapons across 30 kinds: 6 signature weapons, 48 shared weapons and 4 evolutions.
- 36 Fate Cards in three rarities: Common, Rare and Legendary.
- 100 stages across 10 worlds: Ashen Fields, Rotting Bog, Frostveil Tundra, Cinder Wastes, Hollow of Stars, Verdant Warrens, Sunscorch Dunes, Ossuary Citadel, Ironhold Highlands and Crimson Abyss, each with its own creatures, two elites and a boss.
Progress between runs
Victory banks gold, account XP and hero XP. Between runs you unlock and tier up heroes, unlock shared weapons in the Arsenal with fragments, roll permanent upgrades in Grow, claim missions and achievements and fill your Bestiary with every creature you face.
When can I play?
Survivors of Nightfall Online is in development and coming soon. We will announce platforms and dates as soon as they are confirmed. The best way to hear it first is our Discord.