The Last Sigil

The Last Sigil is a roguelite action RPG in which you build a guild, hire randomly generated characters and enter the Sigils to fight an ancient evil and its army of monsters. You battle through procedurally generated exteriors and dungeons, hunt for loot, and develop your guild as you work toward the Last Sigil.

Explore the Sigils

The game currently has eight procedurally generated Sigils, reached through portals that appear in a procedurally generated world. Each dungeon contains different enemies, traps and bosses, and has three levels followed by a boss room, with portals connecting the areas. Minions are weaker enemies; elites are tougher and have special passive bonuses and skills; bosses appear at the end of each dungeon. Enemies use normal and special attacks, and most bosses also have mechanics you must counter.

There are three difficulties: Normal, Hard and Very Hard. You must complete the game on Normal to unlock Hard, then complete Hard to unlock Very Hard. Higher difficulties make enemies stronger and tougher and leave you less time to avoid special attacks, while raising the caps on gold and magic find.

Exteriors and dungeons connect through exits, portals and waypoints. Activating a waypoint lets you travel between locations instantly. When you are out of combat, you can teleport to the encampment, the town hub, and use a portal to return to your previous location.

Build your guild

Guild members are randomly generated, with a rank, expertise, trait, four statistics—strength, endurance, constitution and luck—and a set of skills. You cannot choose their passive abilities or active skills, so you make the best of the characters the game offers. At the start and after every dungeon, you can recruit new members and choose one to play. You can also dismiss a member, hire someone new or rename your guild members.

When you kill dungeon bosses and survive, you can increase some of your character’s bonuses. If the character you are playing dies, you lose that character. The game has ten classes: fire mage, ice mage, blood witch, necromancer, cleric, paladin, amazon, ranger, berserker and juggernaut. Each class has different combat abilities, a quick movement skill, an active block skill that mitigates damage and a summonable banner that grants temporary buffs.

Skills include ranged and melee attacks, piercing and explosive projectiles, channeling, frontal and 360-degree area attacks, damage-over-time effects and summons. Passive upgrades can strengthen skills, while mythic items can add special effects.

Level up and customize

Killing enemies earns experience, and characters can level up to 50 in every difficulty. Each level grants stat points to distribute between power, energy and vitality, which are shared across the guild and boosted by the statistics of the character you are using. You also gain an upgrade point to improve passive abilities; you can reset your upgrades for free.

Each character has a luck statistic that gives a chance to double loot when you kill an enemy or open or break a container. Equipment bonuses and passive upgrades can also increase gold and magic find, helping you earn more gold and find rare items.

Find and craft equipment

Equipment has 14 slots: helmet, chest, gloves, pants, boots, amulet, two rings, melee weapon, ranged weapon, magic weapon, shield, banner and pet. You can find equipment by defeating enemies or looting containers and treasure chests, buy and sell items with merchants in the encampment, gamble for unidentified items, or gather materials and craft equipment at the forge.

Items come in five qualities: normal, magic, rare, epic and mythic. Normal items are used for crafting; the other qualities increase statistics and add passive bonuses, with higher qualities providing more and stronger bonuses. Mythic items also have a special effect. You can upgrade equipment and add sockets with tools, enchant it with magic scrolls, and insert craftable jewels into sockets.

Bring a pet

Equipped pets are summoned to follow and fight alongside you, attacking enemies on sight. You can call a pet back and set it to passive mode. Some pets fight in melee and others at range; each has a special ability. Pets range from normal to mythic quality and can be improved by spending upgrade points on their related skills.