Eternally

Eternally is a dark fantasy tactical RPG played on a hex grid, where every attack is decided by a dice roll. You build one of four Eternals from more than 260 skills and take them through an eight-chapter campaign, alone or with up to three friends online. You can also play with one friend on the same PC.

Build your Eternals

Each Eternal has four personal skill trees, and they all share a fifth. A campaign gives you about 28 skill points, while learning every skill for one Eternal costs more than 80; about a third of an Eternal’s skills fit into one campaign. There are 15 ways to make up your party, and some skills exclude others. You can respec once per playthrough, while five skills are unlocked by deeds in battle: for example, Synn learns Possess after 15 mind controls.

The four Eternals have distinct abilities:

• Ara the Geomancer: ricochets pebble shots at range and uses a pebble shield up close. Her sentient pebble, Roki, grows with her, and at higher levels Ara can fly over the front line.
• Frazzah the Cryomancer Knight: can be built as a pure swordmaster or a cryomancer with up to seven ice clones.
• Morrathil, the Wrath of the Forest: spreads plague and blight and raises an undead treant that evolves in stages.
• Synn, the Leviathan's Daughter: moves through stealth and mist, turns enemies against each other and can possess them.

Combine abilities

Your Eternals’ skills can support one another. Synn’s Drenched makes Frazzah’s Frozen harder to break, while Frazzah’s Chilled makes Morrathil’s Rooted harder to escape. Frazzah’s Thrust pierces deeper into stunned enemies, and Roki’s Sandworn makes its target take more damage from every source. Psychic Haste gives a friend extra actions and movement, while Cleansing Rain cures Bleeding, Poisoned and Burned. You can control all of these abilities yourself in a solo party or play alongside friends.

Fight on the grid

Positioning matters: moving does not cost an action, while engagement and attacks of opportunity reward careful placement. Creatures and walls block shots, and you only see what your team can see. Contested dice rolls determine whether stealthy creatures are spotted; striking from stealth deals extra true damage.

You gather Shimmer from the world and fallen monsters. When a die misses, you can spend Shimmer to make it land on its best result. Elites receive random affixes, and loot, salvage and dice are random as well.

The battlefield has 11 terrain types and 20 conditions. Lava burns, snow chills you until you freeze, and some skills reshape the map mid-fight. Conditions include Stunned, Horrified, Burned, Poisoned and Hasted; Drenched puts out Burned, and Chilled stacks into Frozen.

Gear and enemies

There are 66 handcrafted items, each with a fixed effect. The Chronosphere resets every cooldown, while the Crown of the Undying lets you rise again. Epics never drop: you forge all 16 at the Blacksmith, including a Cinderscale Egg that hatches a Black Dragon ally. Each Eternal also earns a Legacy Relic that reshapes their signature skills, then forges it into an Epic one.

You face more than 20 kinds of monster, which flank, focus fire and stalk from stealth. Demon commanders Vexaroth and Baron Valdris lead them. Elites roll from 17 random affixes, including Impervious, Regenerative, Venomous and Fireborn.

Campaign and multiplayer

The eight-chapter campaign takes about 6 to 8 hours, in addition to a tutorial. Each chapter has its own objective, from clearing the field to getting villagers to safety. In solo play, you lead 2 to 4 Eternals through the campaign and switch between them from the party bar or with F1 to F4.

Online co-op supports up to four players, with monsters scaling to the party. A fallen Eternal gets back up after two rounds. Local co-op lets two players play the whole campaign on one PC, and Steam Remote Play Together is also supported.

PvP includes Capture the Box for 1v1 or 2v2, and Judgement Hill, a deathmatch for up to four sides. Judgement Hill can be played free-for-all or in teams, with victory going to the first side to reach the kill target.

Additional features

The game supports controllers throughout, with Xbox or PlayStation button prompts. It also includes mid-level checkpoints, Steam Cloud saves, 24 achievements, a damage breakdown for every hit and a key to repeat your last ability.