To The Grave: The Wildlands of Faenora
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Step 1: Get amulet from mysterious wizard.
Step 2: Chase massive gryphon through medieval fantasy world.
Step 3: Die. Come back. Repeat.
To The Grave: The Wildlands of Faenora is a tactical turn-based roguelite where you're either a hero in the making…or just the latest fool sent to their doom with an amulet and a dream. Choose your fate. Recruit your crew. Hope the gryphon doesn’t eat everyone this time. Or a dragon. Or a huge corrupted bear that wears gloves for some reason.
Key Features:
- Tactical Squad Chaos: Command a squad of semi-qualified adventurers in turn-based battles where every move counts. Position your heroes on a 3x3 grid, exploit enemy weaknesses and try not to get obliterated. Again.
- Customize or Die (Probably Both): Deck out your units with swords, armor, enchanted trinkets and questionable fashion choices. Promote them to new classes, unlock powerful abilities and pretend this was all part of the plan.
- Unit Customization: Equip your units with powerful weapons, armor and accessories. Promote them to advanced classes to unlock new abilities and dominate the battlefield.
- Pick a Path, Regret it Later: The Wildlands don’t come with a roadmap — just cursed loot, suspicious strangers and way too many forks in the road. Every run brings new events, new challenges and new ways to die (but creatively!).
- Grid-Based Brilliance: Front-row brawlers, back-row sharpshooters and watching out for that one ghost who insists on floating sideways. Plan your formation wisely or watch chaos unfold. Pro tip: ranged units in front = bad.
- Pixel Art Magic: A visually whimsical world packed with monsters that look surprisingly huggable. Every nostalgic pixel drips with charm and the potential of corruption by dark forces.
The Story
In the Kingdom of Faenora, legends are forged in steel, sorcery and, sometimes, a series of poor decisions.
You begin in a tavern. You hear about a gryphon. You get handed a death-defying amulet by a wizard with questionable motives. Now, with nothing but determination and a loosely assembled crew of allies, you march into the Wildlands to chase glory, riches and whatever that gryphon’s problem is.
But the Wildlands hold more than just oversized bird monsters. There are secrets buried in the forest, corruption leaking from the Netherrealm and maybe — just maybe — something you were meant to find.
Even if you die a few dozen times on the way. (Which you will.)
Join the Adventure
Be among the first to get slaughtered, resurrected and mildly traumatized in To The Grave: The Wildlands of Faenora.
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yoooo, i completed the demo!! with slightly under less than 20 hours.... and lvl 29 hero
although i did use a cheat/bug...
1) go to the recruit screen, then exit game
2) no matter how u get back in, either thru recruit, item cache, or 25% exp, you will get ONE EXTRA CHARACTER; however, the characters will not be the preset ones as determined by the recruit screen, it will just be a mixture of squires and archers
and so i defeated the games with my hero, one cleric, two knights, and three fighters (who are insanely op once leveled up to five) choosing the 25% exp route
also the music is very epic
Nicely done!
We are aware of that bug. It won't be present in the early access version of the game, but does help survivability in the alpha demo!
Thanks for playing the alpha demo! Definitely keep an eye out on our Steam for when we launch the early access version of the full game (planned to be the 1st chapter of a 4 chapter story) later this year.
super fun game!
am wayy too addicted
farthest point so far is the first mountainous area
archers and fighters are so good at damage
Thanks so much for playing! This is just the alpha demo - so we have a lot more planned!
might've played a little too much
i got the gryphon down to 1472 hp!
You're a beast! It's only a matter of time...
You definitely need the right balance of damage dealers and tank/healing. You need to survive long enough to kill the gryphon, but deal damage fast enough to get the gryphon before it starts to use the Gale skill. Your best bet is to max out your classes, get the best late stage equipment you can and try to promote your units as early as possible (a Fighter that levelled up from level 1 is significantly stronger than a Fighter that was promoted from a Squire at level 12).
ooh, i didn't know about the early units leveling up tip
thanks for that :D
my current strat is to have two knights in the front, then two fighters at mid (they do good damage), and then my character and the healer at back
(NOOOOOOOOOO 488 hp left of the gryphon 😭😭)
The "Gale" skill (not even the Netherblast ulti) of the final boss Gryphon seems to ensure a OHKO for the whole team, even my 400 HP knights, so I will temporarily give up for now :) see you at the next update. Good game.
I don't know if it is an expected behavior but Bodyguard's Target effect before Bodyguard's User and vice versa. If a 2x Knight cast Bodyguard on a 3x Unit, the 3x unit will have it's Bodyguard's effect finished early. This makes the effect weaker as sometimes the target cannot be protected at all before enemies' ulti, especially for high action units. Also, Bodyguard can be cast on itself with no effect, which should be removed.
I think it's a bug but whenever a unit is promoted, it loses some stats. For example, my lvl 20 Knight when promoted to Fighter, lost 1/3 of its stats, and when promoted back into a Knight, again lost 1/5 of its stats. Perhaps it removes the leveling up stats bonus, but it kinda crippled my units before the Gryphon fights.
Hey! Thanks for letting us know about this. We'll definitely check into this, because it shouldn't be the case. Could it happen because of different equipment (for example, if you promote from a Knight to a Fighter when you have a sword equipped, your sword will be unequipped because Fighters can't use swords)?
Thanks for the reply, I would have loved to reproduce it and take screenshots but it's a little inconvenient to repeat as a player, as I have to first bring my troops above lvl 12 for free promotion. However the test set up is simple. Bring any member to lvl 12, then remove the equipment, then promote them between their classes. I think it has to do with the leveling up stat bonus, for example a Knight that is trained since lvl 1 to lvl 10 will have different stats from a Squire or Fighter trained to lvl 10 then promoted to Knight. In my case my Knight rank is 5 and Fighter rank 3, resulting in different stats. Could you provide the details on stats up statistics, the table should clear up the confusion.
Ah, that's a good point. Each unit's stats are calculated like this: Base Stat + Level Up Stats.
The Base Stat depends on the class and rank of the class (a Knight with class rank 5 will have higher base stats than a Knight of class rank 3, a Fighter with class rank 5 will have certain base stats that are higher (ATK) and certain base stats that are lower (HP, DEF) than a Knight).
The Level Up Stats depend on which class you are when you level up the character - a unit that levels up 10 times as a Squire will have a much lower ATK than a unit that levels up 10 times as a Fighter.
If your Knight is rank 5 and Fighter is rank 3, then there's definitely a base stat difference that will drop the stats.
We'll test it to see if there are any other stat bugs affecting it. Thanks!
Oh yeah, that's definitely a bug. Thanks for finding that! We'll get that fixed!
Thank you! Great game! Loved the humor in the in-game texts :))
Just beat the first boss using a team of 5 melees (unexpectedly). Hero at lvl 15. Enjoyable gameplay that combined Tactics Orge March of The Red Queen with roguelike elements.