Knightbane

Knightbane is a timed combat game in which you reclaim fallen lands by destroying enemies, relighting candles and cleansing banners. You have 12 minutes before the final boss appears. Each point in your VANITY stat strengthens enemies and brings bosses, including the final boss, sooner.

Shape the battlefield

You can break terrain to escape danger, extract gold from walls and reshape the battlefield to funnel enemies into traps. Death is a minor setback, and you discover new abilities and items as you progress.

Develop your abilities

Knightbane combines passive abilities with active abilities. When you level up, you can choose to ascend an ability, empowering it and changing how it works. Your mace can erupt craters, projectiles can crackle with lightning, and your blade can swing repeatedly.

Collect items

You can break containers left behind by the once-great order to claim their items. Some items alter abilities, change their damage to fire, clone an entire ability or trigger a frost nova when used. Items come in five rarities: Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic and Legendary.

There are three item types:

• Items: collected throughout a run, in five rarities: Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic and Legendary.
• Vestiges: run-altering starter items. Some grant fire damage when you light candles, others grant fortune, and some stir up enemies to make a run harder.
• Relics: freed from the curse and claimable only once. One removes every Common item from your pool for the rest of the run; another turns gold into raw power.