Dead Ink
Mostly Positive · 38 reviews
74% positive (28 / 38)
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Description
Descend a dense, interconnected brutalist tower in this top-down soulslike built around exploration. Harvest ink from enemies, then spend it to print your body, weapons and equipment. Every death costs ink; run out, and the run ends.
Released
May 19, 2023
Price
Platforms
Windows
Developer
Offwidth Games Ltd
Publisher
Offwidth Games Ltd
About
Descend the tower
Dead ink is a top-down soulslike set inside a single hand-crafted vertical world. You awaken at the summit of a hostile brutalist tower. To escape, you must find a way down. Explore a dense, nonlinear structure of shortcuts, locked routes, hidden drops and dangerous ledges. The tower is not a backdrop: understanding its shape is at the heart of the game.
Print your next life
Enemies yield ink. Printers turn it into your body, weapons and equipment, and form a network of checkpoints throughout the tower. Spend heavily on a powerful loadout, preserve your ink for future attempts, or risk transporting it to another printer.
Make the ink last
Every death has a material cost. Die too often or spend too freely and your ink supply can run dry, ending the run.
- Deliberate melee combat with blocking, parrying, rolling, and plunge attacks.
- A nonlinear entirely hand-crafted tower.
- Multiple weapons, enemies, and bosses.
- Hidden routes, shortcuts, and blueprint upgrades.
- Full controller support.
In the year 2207 the quantum state of your brain was encoded in a stream of photons and beamed into the cosmos. A pioneer of a glorious new age of light-speed travel, destined for fame and glory... at least that was the plan.