Realmlords

Realmlords is an action roguelite dungeon crawler with bullet-hell and spell-hell combat. Each run takes you through dangerous elemental realms filled with enemy hordes, hazards, loot, bosses and Realm Lords that hunt you across the map. Choose a class and weapon, build your character with abilities and equipment, clear arenas and spawners, defeat Portal Guardians and Realm Bosses, and push through rising difficulty.

Elemental realms

The realm chain includes Fire, Ice, Lightning, Earth, Poison and Dark, each with its own enemies, ground hazards, bosses and atmosphere. Each realm has three portal floors. Clear spawners, defeat the Portal Guardian and collect progression relics to advance toward the Realm Boss at the end of the realm cycle. Reaching Realm Lord X unlocks the highest difficulty tier, where loot reaches god-tier and danger becomes lethal.

Seven unique Realm Lords stalk each map, with one of each type and no duplicates. They are immune to all damage unless you wield a Legendary weapon earned on Realm Lord X difficulty. Defeating them earns massive rewards.

Classes and weapons

You can choose from 12 classes, each with distinct strengths, stat scaling and combat identity: Warrior, Wizard, Archer, Paladin, Rogue, Druid, Dwarf Warrior, Gnome Wizard, Orc Wizard, Red Wizard, Necromancer and Bard. The Paladin starts with Reflect Shield. Classes support different approaches, including melee, ranged combat, spellcasting, summoning, support and hybrid builds.

At the start of each run, choose a weapon. The 11 weapon archetypes are Sword, Staff, Axe, Mace, Dagger, Shuriken, Trident, Bow, Boomerang, Wand and Musical Instruments. The Bard uses a Lute, Flute or Drum. One-handed weapons attack faster, while two-handed weapons hit harder and prevent shield use. Shields have Block Chance and can block physical and elemental hits when your resistances align. Caster classes can use Magic Focus off-hand items, while Warrior, Dwarf Warrior and Rogue can dual-wield and alternate strikes between their weapons.

Builds and combat

Level up to choose active and passive abilities from a large pool. Collect scroll fragments to craft Skill Books and unlock powers during a run. Realm Boss artifacts go on a dedicated hotbar for activated skills, and mined ore can be used at an anvil to temper gear with permanent upgrades. You can gamble unwanted loot for better gear manually or automatically while fighting.

Combat features fire, ice, lightning, earth, poison, holy and dark projectiles and effects. Mana Surge unleashes oversized elemental attacks based on your equipped weapon or spell type; Greater Mana Surge can link co-op players for coordinated burst damage. Other abilities and effects include orbitals, whirlwinds, familiars, auras, beams and Reflect Shield, whose orbiting shields bounce enemy projectiles back for full damage. Arenas can contain enemy spawners, pillars, blade traps, lava pools, poison hazards and boss summon rituals. Rare, elemental and boss enemies have escalating patterns and loot tables.

Realm Anger

The Realm Anger Bar rises as you kill enemies, break spawners, open chests, destroy pillars and mine ore. At 100%, it triggers a Hoard Wave, a surge of enemies that grows exponentially each time it happens within a realm. Anger carries across portal floors and resets when you conquer a realm and move on.

Loot and progression

Runs offer gold, keys, potions, food, hourglasses, magnets and chests of every tier, along with orbs and relics that unlock the next realm. Gear scales across 10 difficulty tiers, from Normal I through Realm Lord X.

Between runs, character profiles save your roster, difficulty unlocks and progress. Lore Fragments are permanent account currency used in the Lore Archive to reveal the Realmlords story sentence by sentence. Achievements track kills, bosses, realms, lore chapters and more, while Steam Leaderboards let you compete for high scores and realm-clear times.

Online co-op

Team up online in the same dungeon layout, fight the same bosses, pool progression drops and survive Hoard Waves together.

Key features

• Procedural dungeons, randomized loot and build experimentation
• Three portal floors per realm, followed by a Portal Guardian and Realm Boss
• Six elemental realms, seven unique Realm Lords and the Realm Lord X difficulty
• Realm Anger and escalating Hoard Waves