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The Siege and the Sandfox is a 2D stealth Metroidvania about a royal protector framed for the king’s murder. Betrayed by the Queen and left for dead in Traitor’s Fall, a deep pit leading to the underground prisons, you take on the role of the Sandfox and make your way back to the palace. You must expose the Queen’s plot, avenge the betrayal with the Kasha’i’s glass dagger and save the kingdom from a sand-borne threat rising below.

The siege and the Sandfox

A shining city in a vast desert is under siege by a neighbouring kingdom. As the moon rises over the royal palace, a notorious assassin witnesses the king’s death at the hands of a traitor. Discovered and falsely accused, the assassin is thrown into the labyrinthine dungeons. The Sandfox, or Kasha’i, is the current holder of a legendary mantle passed down through a line of protectors and servants to the crown; the Queen has betrayed them to conceal her regicide.

Your journey leads from the underground depths back up to the palace. Along the way, you uncover the true threat to the kingdom: an evil emerging from beneath the sand. As dusk turns to night and night to dawn, you rely on new allies, return to the palace and seek to end the Queen’s treachery.

Explore and evade

The game’s single, continuous world connects the newer palace, older prisons, an ancient mausoleum and an intricate network of caves. You run, jump, slide, shimmy and pole-swing through these environments, finding items, equipment and skills that open previously inaccessible locations. You can incapacitate enemies or slip past them unseen, and you can also find other ways to deal with threats.

Each area has its own enemies, some better than others at pursuing the Sandfox. Guards can grow suspicious even when you leave an extinguished torch or an open door behind, so you need to stay alert. You also encounter an eclectic range of characters to discover and help, including potential allies among the inhabitants of the caves, mausoleums, prisons and crumbling ancient structures.

Art and sound

The pixel art is hand-animated frame by frame, with effects made using Unreal Engine 4. Dynamic audio builds tension and draws attention to danger, while smooth controls and fluid animations support your efforts to avoid enemies and evade capture.