THE ISLES OF THE NINE CROWNS

A pixel-art Souls-like Metroidvania set in a broken empire built on two centuries of betrayal.

Play as Alaric Stoneheart — a boy who was never meant to reach the throne, walking through the ruins of the Nine Crowns to take back what his line lost. Every keep you enter has a name. Every knight you kill has a father in the codex. Every death teaches you something the histories left out.

FIGHT LIKE A STONEHEART

Combat is deliberate. Two-hit windows, real hitboxes, no lock-on. Learn a boss the way the histories learned them — one funeral at a time.

• Sword, hammer, and the legendary spear Stormpiercer, each weapon changing how you approach every encounter.

• The Stormpiercer has two attacks — a fast level jab and a heavy overhead stab — and a harpoon throw that reels you to walls or hooks you onto distant platforms.

• Twelve biomes, ten major bosses, dozens of named knights and lords who each remember the last time your house passed through.

A WORLD WITH A MEMORY

Every land you set foot in unlocks its history in the Codex — a living book of the Nine Crowns tracking Locations, Houses, People, Battles, and Tales you have earned by playing.

• Over 750 years of written history — kings poisoned at their own tables, rebellions won and lost, houses that swore to no crown and paid for it.

• Read the tale of the knight who forged your spear. Read the battle where your grandmother died. Read the one battle you fought yourself, remembered by the survivors.

• Nothing is filler. Every entry connects to a person you meet, a room you fight through, or an ending you will be judged on.

EXPLORE, CLIMB, HOOK, FALL

The isles are one interconnected map. You will return to zones with new tools and see what the game hid from you the first time.

• Dedicated parkour zones — wall-jumps, harpoon hooks, moving platforms, chasm timing runs.

• A world built for the second run. New weapons and traversal open new paths through old rooms.

• Persistent progression. No run-based reset. When you die you lose ground, not everything.

FEATURES

• Full controller support (Xbox, DualShock, DualSense)

• Remappable keyboard bindings

• Screen-shake toggle and adjustable audio channels for accessibility

• Single-player. No online required. No microtransactions.

The Nine Crowns remember every man who tried to wear them. Come and be remembered.