Annihilated

Annihilated is a story-driven roguelite RPG about a journey into a cursed dungeon and a broken hero’s fate. You are the last survivor of a rescue party sent after the hero’s party went missing. When you find them, each has lost something: the Hero can no longer speak, the Mage has lost her magic, the Warrior has lost his mighty body, and the Priest has lost an unknown part of himself. You can rescue only one, choosing a partner to escape with.

The rescue party

The Hero still wants to save the world, but can say only “Yes” and “No.” The Mage retains her knowledge and wonders what she is worth without magic. The Warrior’s soul now lives in an adorable doll, a change he seems delighted by. The Priest is an exceptional healer, but has recently converted to the Great One and has zero sanity.

Explore and fight

Choose a route through the dungeon and fight in turn-based card battles. Every item you carry becomes a card with a limited number of uses, and enemies reveal their next move before acting. Your chosen partner fights alongside you: the Hero shrugs off death, while the Priest heals exceptionally well.

Break weapons for power

You take new gear from enemies. Stagger a foe, then use a weapon for the last time to trigger a Fatal Strike, instantly killing the enemy and taking their equipment. Weapons are strongest on their final use, so breaking them deliberately can be worthwhile even when supplies are scarce.

Curses and retries

Each shattered item leaves a Curse, which you can spend to Defy fate: a worst possible roll can be undone as if it never happened. If you die, you retry from the floor where you fell. You can forge stored Curses into items you need, while the rest becomes experience, making each death strengthen the next run.

Your partner and the story

Conversations reveal your partner’s secrets and what really happened to the party. Trust, doubt or dependence can grow between you depending on how you feel, shaping the ending. Each of the four routes is a complete story of its own.

Routes and battles

The branching story contains more than 200,000 words across four routes with multiple endings, and each route takes about six hours. You can choose between two battle styles: timing-based or probability-based. Either can take you to the end.

Items and illustrations

The game includes more than 100 weapons and items to steal, break and turn into Curses, along with more than 400 hand-drawn illustrations.