Raise

Raise is an independent third-person soulslike in which you rise from the grave and travel across a graveyard toward a sanctuary of combat trials. You face its guardians, build your character’s strength and take on arena challenges where mastering combat and improving your times are central.

Learn the combat

Lock on to enemies, manage your stamina and choose when to attack, dodge or parry. You can combine light strikes, heavy attacks and sprint attacks against zombies, elite enemies and bosses. Learning how opponents move matters as much as dealing damage.

Strengthen your character

Defeat enemies to gather essences and develop your character up to level 30. Benches let you recover and save your progress. Your level carries into the challenges, so you can grow stronger before attempting a new record. A separate training arena offers an optional tutorial for practising the basics.

Take on the trials

The game has four main challenges, each made up of three waves with different combinations of enemies and bosses. Completing all four unlocks an optional extra challenge that puts all 12 waves in sequence. Your result is adjusted by your performance:

• Each hit taken adds 3 seconds.
• Each successful parry subtracts 3 seconds.
• Each healing potion used adds 2 seconds.
• Finishing without taking a hit reduces your final time by 10%.

You can pursue personal bests and compare your fastest times on Steam leaderboards. Raise began as a student project and was revived years later with a smaller scope focused on combat, character progression and replayable challenges.