Downward Spear

Downward Spear is a single-player, isometric survival-horror tactics game set in a flooded post-apocalyptic world. You move through handcrafted environments, manage scarce supplies and try to escape enemies that react to noise and exposure. Missions last 30–45 minutes, and each gunshot, footstep and resource decision can affect your survival.

Explore the environments

Indoor and outdoor environments contain secrets, ambushes, weapons and items. Paying close attention can help you find enough to complete a mission 100%. You encounter a range of factions and enemies, including soulless undead, irradiated mutant pukers, crawlers, earth-shaking hulks, religious zealot raiders, mysterious grey trench-coated agents and ethereal beings. Elite enemies, marked by a red skull, are fearsome mini-boss versions of their counterparts and often ambush you when you least expect it.

Use stealth and tactics

Enemies can hear your footsteps and gunfire, so you choose between standing, crouching and going prone, and select weapons while managing limited resources. A loud shotgun blast can draw a horde to your position. Tactical Mode lets you pause time and queue decisions at your own pace.

Characters and items

Unlockable characters have their own bonuses, penalties and loadouts, changing the decisions you make during a mission. Environments also change based on the character entering them, bringing different items, weapons and challenges. Some items, such as Small Keys, persist between environments; you can use them or save them to unlock rarer items and areas.

The maps also contain interactive objects and hazards to use or overcome, including irradiated water, explosive barrels, car alarms, infected buildings, supply crates, ladders, rappels and zip lines.

Missions and time trials

Completing a mission unlocks its Time Trial, where you race against the clock through a different layout. You can win time back by eliminating or dodging enemies and collecting time bonuses and secrets. Advanced Difficulties provide another way to take on the missions.