Chronoseum

Chronoseum casts you as entertainment in an arena show that descends floor by floor. The crowd is synthetic, but its roar is real enough for the sponsors, who are the only ones who matter. You fight through increasingly strange and dangerous arenas, facing bosses whose abilities and variations make each showdown different.

Descend through the arenas

Each run takes you through procedurally generated, themed arenas with hazards to survive and helpful boons to collect. The deeper you go, the stranger and deadlier the arenas become. You face bosses drawn from dozens of hand-built archetypes, with random, telegraphed ability kits that grow as you descend. Further down, bosses arrive elementally charged and enraged, from early headliners to Apex runstoppers and the creature at the very bottom.

Fight and build

Combat uses light strikes, guard-breaking heavy strikes, special attacks and dashes, with melee, thrown and ranged weapons. After each wave, you choose an upgrade and can chain upgrades into synergies. Fuse the right pair to create an evolution that changes how you fight; you can also spend scrap collected between floors. Blind mystery picks add another option to the draft, and no two runs build the same way.

Return to the Midway

Death sends you back to the Midway, where you can spend your winnings on lasting power, choose a gladiator and weapon, and begin another descent with the odds a little less against you. The game also includes multiple gladiators, unlockable special abilities, a betting vendor, hidden records, achievements and an endless mode. It has an original synth soundtrack and supports keyboard and mouse or a controller.