Skulltide

Skulltide is a co-op roguelite about skeletons collecting black magic grimoires to prolong the Skulltide and evade the Grim Reaper. You travel through lands that are dying or already dead, wielding blades taken from fallen foes and using magic that kills mortal mages. Your skeleton can die too, but it reanimates.

The dead rise

As the final sun sets, souls already taken by death return to their long-lost bones from graveyards, crypts and burial mounds. Many are mad and attack you; others become necromantic allies. You may also encounter people in the last moments of life, not yet claimed by Death. Heroic queens and formidable warlocks may join the Skulltide, and a hero may even fight alongside the bones of a killer. All are equal before the altar of death.

Build your skeleton

Your abilities are tied to your bones, and you can gain or lose them. You can customize your skeletal remains with materials and magicks found on your journeys, and build classes from sets of abilities taken from enemies. When you fall, you lose those abilities; each death sends you back to the crypt with more black magic grimoires. You collect spells from the dead you raise, blades from those you kill, and bodies from the fallen. You can also throw your bones, raise new ones when you cannot find your own, and lose and find your head again.

Co-op and survival

Play in local or online co-op, or combine both. Work together to evade the Grim Reaper, and reanimate your friends to keep the Skulltide alive. Entropy and Chaos threaten to end each run; when you lose, you return stronger. The game is easy to pick up, with many possible builds and runs and a high skill ceiling.