Eldritch Descent X

Humanity's last lamp is going down.

Eldritch Descent X is a vertical shoot 'em up of cosmic dread. Pilot a lamp-lit ship from a storm-lashed coast to the bottom of the ocean and beyond the sky. Everything down there is dark: your lamp shows a cone of the world, and the rest is silhouettes, eyes and sound.

Power has a price. Absorb the essence of the Old Ones and take their corruptions to grow stronger. Your ship grows flesh, eyes and bone, and your mind slips. At low sanity, phantoms that are not there join the swarm, the HUD glitches and lies, and ARIA, your ship's voice, starts saying things she should not.

Horror never hides a bullet. Enemy fire is always magenta or cyan and always drawn on top. The dread lives in the world, never in a shot you could not see.

Features

• Five drowned strata: the Coast, the Abyss, the Sunken City, the Rising and the Void. Three levels each, every one deeper and stranger than the last.
• Guardians and lords: a guardian rises in the middle of every stratum and its lord waits at the bottom. Seven lords in all, two of them hidden.
• Sanity that lies: 30 corruptions in five families, each with its own mechanics, and a mind that cracks as you use them.
• Score like an arcade master: grazing, chains, point-blank kills, drowned sea mines, cancelled fire turned to gold, and extends at 1, 3 and 6 million.
• Medallions and boons: eleven secondary weapons that rank up to III, plus Overdrive, the Lodestone and the Tide Mirror.
• Fly alone or together: two-pilot local co-op on one screen, with shared lives and downed partners to bring back.
• Made to be replayed: four difficulties from Easy to Nightmare, a daily descent, four endings, a Second Immersion, a hidden expedition, achievements and a Codex read aloud by the Chronicler.
• For every pilot: a guided tutorial, assists, remappable controls, subtitles in six languages, and voices in English and Spanish.