Kindling

Kindling is a top-down action roguelite in which you play a witch trapped in a nightmare born from her greatest sin. Break your sisters' seals, descend through a haunted forest and fight to uncover a truth you tried to bury. Fire is essential to survival, and each death makes you stronger.

Fight with fire

You have no health bar; a shield stands between you and death. Keep moving as it fades, burn a path through the shadows, dodge attacks and turn an escape into a counterattack. You can plant a campfire in the dark, draw enemies close and unleash a burst of flame. Each blaze gives you room to breathe but eventually burns out, so where and when you use it—and when you run—matters.

Combat depends on positioning, timing and nerve. The haunted forest holds hidden encounters, buried memories and relentless bosses.

Shape each descent

Collect ember fragments and return to the witch's chamber to prepare for your next descent. Four skill trees, chest rewards and permanent mastery let you develop different ways to fight: turn campfires into weapons, leave burning trails behind your dash or unleash a storm of fireballs.

Recover the past

After death, you may find a note in your own handwriting—a warning, a lesson or a fragment of a life you cannot remember. The nightmare remembers how you died. Piece together your sisters' story and find out why the fire keeps calling you back. Notes from your previous lives build a growing archive as you descend again.