A downloadable game for Windows and macOS

A dark and atmospheric adventure where you dungeon-crawl into the abyss in search of glory and treasure. Uncover hidden lore via inspecting the items you find, the earth you break, and the enemies you kill.




Contributors

  • Felipe Rodriguez Atuesta [Level Designer, Programming]
  • Jonas Liew [Writing]
  • Josh Smith [Programming]
  • Mike Greber  [Programming]
  • Reilly Keele [Programming]
  • Aaron Tripodi [Producer]

Credits & Attribution

Art

Original Characters and Tileset from 16x16 DungeonTileset II by 0x72 on itch.io 

Fonts

Romulus font by Pix3m on Deviant Art

HelvetiPixel font by pentacom on Pentacom  

BetterPixelsfont by AmericanHustler on Pentacom  

Audio

Sound from Zapsplat.com

Source Code

Source code is available on GitHub here.

Download

Download
Descension for Windows 37 MB
Download
Descension for Mac OS X 49 MB
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Descension for Windows (64-bit) 40 MB

Install instructions

  • Download the .zip file corresponding to your operation system from downloads section
  • Extract the contents of the .zip file
  • Run ‘Descension.exe’ on Windows or the ‘Descension’ app on MacOS
    • If Windows protects your PC, click ‘More Info’ and then ‘Run Anyway’
    • If Mac says cannot be opened, go to the ‘Apple Menu’ ->  ‘System Preferences’ -> ‘Security & Privacy’ and click ‘Open Anyway’

Controls

User Interface

  • Use the mouse to navigate through menus

Gameplay

  • Press ‘Esc’ to bring up the pause menu
  • Move with WASD
  • Use the mouse to aim 
  • Use the left mouse button to use active item 
  • Press ‘F’ to interact
  • Press ‘Space’ or left mouse button to advance dialogue windows
  • Press ‘Q’ to toggle torches on/off
  • Press ‘C’ to view the journal
  • Use 1,2,3,4 or the scroll wheel to swap between items in inventory

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