Space Gladiators: The Hole

Space Gladiators: The Hole is a 2D hand-drawn roguelite platformer about fighting your way out of a planet prison. Captured and sent to entertain aliens as a gladiator on Tartarus, you advance through randomly generated biomes filled with traps and monsters. In arenas, you choose your opponents and defeat them to earn items and coins that may help you win your freedom.

Escape The Hole

This prelude covers the game's first area, The Hole. You fight through hundreds of hand-crafted rooms, facing more than 20 enemies and one boss. You can choose harder or easier paths during a run: tougher routes offer greater rewards, while easier ones are an option when you are close to death.

Items and characters

The prelude includes 140 items, including pets, weapons and trinkets that unlock new abilities for your characters. You can pop your heart to heal, throw meatballs or fire a laser gun. You can play as the first two characters, including the infamous space potato.

Controls and combat

The controls are designed for dodging and fighting enemies without taking hits, with success depending on your skill.

Full game content

The full game has three areas with hundreds more rooms, more than 50 enemies and 10 bosses, over 360 items and eight characters.