Ravenswatch

Every run in Ravenswatch is bound by a clock: three days and three nights to grow strong enough to challenge a chapter boss, whether you push toward that confrontation on your own terms or get forced into it when time runs out. Passtech Games, the studio behind Curse of the Dead Gods, built this top-down action roguelike around that ticking structure and populated it with corrupted heroes drawn from folklore worldwide — Little Red Riding Hood carrying lycanthropy, Sun Wukong fallen from grace, the Snow Queen wielding genuinely cruel power among a roster of nine characters, each with mechanically distinct playstyles.

Runs take place across three open maps themed around enchanted forests and marshes, the world of One Thousand and One Nights, and Arthurian legend. Within each map, encounters with figures like Sinbad the Sailor or the Three Little Pigs yield rewards that feed into the current run, while the broader story of Reverie and its heroes unfolds incrementally across multiple attempts. Talent choices arrive with each completed level, and players combine those talents with magical items and dream upgrades to assemble builds from a pool of over 200 talents and 50 items. The enemy roster exceeds 50 distinct types, and boss fights anchor each chapter as the primary test of whatever build came together in the preceding map.

• Nine heroes, each with a unique mechanical identity rooted in a darker folkloric interpretation
• Three-day, three-night time structure that governs pacing and forces a boss confrontation
• Open maps with optional activities that reward inhabitants of Reverie for mid-run gains
• Over 200 talents and 50 magical items with layered build combinations
• Solo or online co-op for up to four players, with hero synergies as an explicit design consideration
• Four difficulty levels and customizable game modes

Ravenswatch entered early access before its full release on September 26, 2024. Post-launch updates have followed a consistent arc: the Hourglass of Dreams update arrived in September 2025, the Merlin hero DLC and an accompanying free update launched in January 2026, and the Songs of Thieves free update went live in May 2026. A roadmap reveal in March 2026 outlined further plans, and Passtech has maintained steady patch support throughout. Players drawn to action roguelikes where build depth, timed decision-making, and optional co-op scaling all matter simultaneously will find Ravenswatch squarely in their territory.