Chrysalis

In Chrysalis, you play as a Wisp defending your land from dark magic, disease and death. The Wisp is invisible and can possess and control any friendly plant or animal. You recruit creatures and natural forces to protect your Chrysalis, giving it time to unleash its cleansing power against the monsters trying to destroy it.

Prepare and defend

Each level alternates between Preparation and Defense phases. During Preparation, you explore, defeat monsters, find creatures and Growths, and collect resources. In Defense, monsters invade, change the level and send waves of enemies against your Chrysalis.

Items found while exploring can have synergistic effects on both your creatures and plant-based defenses. Levels are procedurally generated, so each run offers different possibilities.

Develop your creatures

You can take control of any friendly plant or animal through Symbiosis. Creatures and plants can level up and transform into more powerful forms, and you can apply elemental Spirits to customize them further. A mutation system combines different species to create creatures with unique abilities and metamorphoses, with new creatures and abilities to discover over many playthroughs.

Shape each run

At the start of a playthrough, you choose a Chrysalis suited to a particular play style. Its unlockable abilities increase your power as you progress. Defeating monster waves earns random Boons, which grant additional passive or active abilities to enhance the creatures you control.

Permadeath and saving

If a creature you control through Symbiosis dies, the Wisp survives and can possess another one. If the Chrysalis is destroyed, the game ends and you must begin a new playthrough, using what you learned. You can save at any time, preserving the entire state of the current level so you can resume where you left off.