Cursed places, rising pressure

Enemy Archetypes

14 archetypes, 3 per run

Each run randomly draws 3 archetypes from the full pool of 14. Enemies within each archetype scale across 10 tiers — early waves spawn low-tier variants, while late waves and overtime bring elite tiers. The boss that closes the run is also drawn from the active archetypes, so every run ends differently.

Damage lists the types a family attacks with. Resists lists the types it defends against — a red underline marks a type it resists heavily, and a green underline marks a weakness worth exploiting.

Archetype	Unit type		Boss	Damage	Resists	Notable trait
Ghosts	Undead, Cursed		Forgotten Remnant	MC	PMC	Evasion passive gives units a chance to avoid incoming hits.
Wolves	Beast		Alpha Ravager	PC	PMCLPo	High movement speed and fast melee pressure.
Werewolves	Beast, Cursed		Varkharn the Bloodmoon Alpha	PF	PMFCPo	Trigger an enrage burst on damage taken.
Ravenkin	Beast		Veyrakk the Carrion King	ML	PMLPo	Elite tiers switch from melee to ranged attacks.
Spiders	Insect		Arakthra the Broodmother	PPo	PMCPo	Split into smaller spiders on death.
Corrupted Treants	Cursed		Morgroth the Blighted Heartwood	PPo	PMCPo	Very slow, with extreme armor.
Baba Yaga	Cursed		Yagorva the Iron Toothed	MF	PMCPo	Support nearby units with powerful spells.
Bugs	Insect		Kharub the Thousand Legged	PPo	PFPo	Split into smaller bugs on death.
Golems	Construct		Vargrom the Living Monolith	PL	PFLPo	Very slow, with immense physical and elemental resistance.
Leshen	Cursed		Borovyk the Hollow Grove	MPo	PMFCPo	Spawns wolves.
Skeletons	Undead		Ostovar the Bone King	PC	PFCPo	Resurrects on death.
Striga	Undead, Cursed		Morana the Unfed Curse	PPo	PMPo	Armor reduction attacks.
Vampires	Undead, Cursed		Vela'mor the Crimson Veil	PF	PMF	Powerful melee attack.
Vodyanoy	Cursed		Vodnik the Drowned Tsar	MC	PMCLPo	Magic penetration attacks.

Difficulties

Mortal, Broken, Damned

Mortal, Broken, and Damned form one fixed 15-stage Monster Power curve. Mortal runs from +0% to +220%, Broken continues from +300% to +875%, and Damned continues from +1000% to +2400%. Broken adds +200% defense and +10% speed; Damned adds +400% defense and +20% speed.

Survival

Runs are timed pressure tests

Every level has a configured run duration. When the limit is reached, overtime disables hero healing and lifesteal, begins a rising Doom damage ramp after 10 seconds, and guarantees death at 120 seconds if the boss remains alive. Run history tracks victory or defeat, time survived, final score, modifiers, and full stat details.

Score

Harder runs pay more

Score starts at 100%. Active Veil modifiers add score reward from their configured level, and those bonuses stack additively before the level and result multipliers are applied.

Run Modifiers

Veil choices

Mortal rolls no random modifiers. Broken rolls 1. Damned rolls 3. Players can equip up to 3 discovered modifiers before a run, while random locked modifiers can be discovered by winning with them active.

Pressure

The screen fights back

Enemy pressure limits regular wave spawns at 350 active and queued enemies, but crowded screens make new enemies more dangerous. Above 70% pressure, new enemies scale toward up to +100% health, damage, movement speed, and size.

Progression

Victories open the road

Completing a level unlocks the next level in the same difficulty and opens that level in the next difficulty. Clearing all Damned levels marks endless mode as unlocked for future expansion.