DROD: The Second Sky

DROD: The Second Sky is a turn-based strategy and tactics puzzle game played on a top-down 2D grid. You guide Beethro Budkin, a professional dungeon pest exterminator, through rooms where you solve puzzles and fight using weapons and tactics. The story follows his race against time against the Rooted Empire as the looming Grand Event approaches, in the climactic chapter of his adventures in the Great Beneath.

Rooms and exploration

The game contains over 500 puzzle rooms across 30 levels, each organized around a different type of puzzle element. More than a dozen new elements include weapons and monsters with new mechanics. You can also uncover secrets and optional challenges in a variety of ways, and explore multiple overworld maps across and beneath the vast continents of the Eighth.

Over 25,000 user-made rooms are available for free download. The game also includes a level and campaign editor with a custom scripting engine and modding capabilities.

Story and presentation

Beethro faces a host of characters across a range of locales. The story is presented with voice acting, and the game includes over four hours of music: an all-new 90-minute soundtrack composed by synthpop artist Jon Sonnenberg of Travelogue, plus ten thematic tracks by Emmett Plant. Updated artwork includes three new terrain styles, realtime lighting and environmental effects.

Player features

CaravelNet provides a hint system and high-score competition. The game also has an active player community.