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Survive. Evolve. Transcend.

Devouring Arena is a fast-paced roguelike survivor where you face endless waves of enemies in a sentient, ever-changing arena. The arena's face judges your performance — rewarding courage or punishing weakness with dynamic modifiers that transform each wave.


🎭 The Arena's Faces — Core Mechanic

Before each wave, the arena reveals its mood through three faces:

😊 Good Face

Grants blessings: speed boosts, damage buffs, cooldown reduction

😐 Neutral Face

Chaotic twists: strong winds, gravity shifts, environmental chaos

😈 Evil Face

Curses you: empowered enemies, darkness, slippery floors, blood moon

⚠️ The Arena Gets Angrier: Early waves favor Good events. As you progress toward wave 20, Evil events become dominant. Can you survive when the arena turns against you?

⚔️ Key Features

  • Arena Face Events — Every wave brings a new modifier: blessings, curses, or chaos
  • Dynamic Difficulty — The arena's mood shifts from friendly to hostile as you advance
  • Wave-Based Combat — Battle through 10-wave cycles, each ending with a powerful boss
  • Many Abilities — Combine offensive, defensive, and utility skills with unique evolutions
  • Limit Break Mode — After defeating the wave 20 boss, choose Victory or unleash infinite scaling
  • Meta-Progression — Permanent upgrades carry between runs

🎮 Gameplay

Auto-attack enemies while dodging incoming threats. Collect XP to level up and choose from 3 random abilities. Chain synergies, unlock evolutions, and adapt to the arena's ever-changing moods.

Waves 1-20: Standard survival with increasing difficulty + arena modifiers

Wave 20+: Limit Break mode — all stat caps removed, infinite scaling

Example Arena Events:

  • Frenzy — Movement speed +30%, damage +20%, cooldown -15%
  • Blood Moon — Enemies deal +50% damage and move +20% faster, screen turns red
  • Darkness — Vision drastically reduced, enemies lurk in shadows
  • Slippery Arena — Ice floor reduces traction, movement becomes unpredictable
  • Strong Wind — Pushes player and enemies across the battlefield

🌐 Language Support

  • English
  • Russian (Русский)

🎯 Controls

WASD / Arrow Keys — Move
ESC — Pause
Mouse — UI interactions

Tvarinsky
Published 24 days ago
StatusIn development
PlatformsWindows
Publisher
AuthorTvarinsky
GenreAction
Tagsabilities, bullet-heaven, Roguelike, Survivor-like, waves
Average sessionAbout a half-hour
LanguagesEnglish, Russian
InputsKeyboard, Mouse
LinksDiscord

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Devouring Arena Demo.rar 54 MB

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