Summum Aeterna

Summum Aeterna is a roguelite in which you play as the King of Darkness, a warlord condemned to eternal life. You explore uncharted worlds filled with treasures, traps, enemies and powerful bosses, fighting through each world to reach its end. The game combines world-crawling mechanics with fast-paced combat and 2D art.

Persistent progression

Defeat sends you back to the start of your adventure, but you retain some of the items and upgrades earned on previous runs. Skill-tree progress and unlocked world improvements persist, with permanent upgrade systems for both your character and the worlds you explore.

Seeds and changing worlds

The Seed Mechanic generates worlds from seeds, each with its own enemy behavior, special events and map size. A seed’s rarity and genes affect the world it creates. Genes are positive or negative modifiers that shape its dangers, encounters and rewards, letting you generate worlds to suit your playstyle.

Weapons and combat

At the beginning of each world, you choose a starting weapon. Swords, pistols and scythes are available, and you can switch weapons when you find another one. You can embed gems in weapons to raise their attributes and add offensive or passive capabilities. Collecting specific diagrams lets you ascend weapons to Summum level and unlock their full power.

Shape your adventure

Worlds reward you with seeds and currencies that you can use to improve character skills, unlock weapons, strengthen weapons you already own and upgrade world attributes. The world upgrade menu lets you unlock special rooms, raise the rarity of items you find and alter world conditions. You can also mutate the genes of your current seeds to change their rarity, or recycle unwanted seeds to get one of higher rarity.

Board of Champions

The Board of Champions records competitors’ fastest completions of the highest-level seeds. It has separate leaderboards for influenced seeds and standard seeds, and supports multiplayer and cross-platform competition. The top three qualifiers receive gold, silver or bronze crowns that their King of Darkness wears in-game, regardless of the chosen skin, while they remain on the podium.