Cursed Forest

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"The forest remembers. The forest hungers.
And the forest never gives back what it has taken — unless you take it back yourself."

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A TOP-DOWN SLAVIC DARK-FANTASY ROGUELITE

⚒ PLAYABLE ALPHA 0.1.0 — a game in active development ⚒
Download it, fight through it, leave your mark in the comments. Your voice decides where this road leads.

Beyond the last fence of the last village, where the bread ends and the whispers begin, the forest fell sick. Marzanna, goddess of death, has stolen Dziewanna, goddess of the wild. The wolves have scattered, the seasons have stopped, and a winter with no name creeps toward the homes of men. Mokosz, mother of the earth, has called you — her champion — to walk into cursed Jawia, map by map, all the way to Old Wij and the throne of death.

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🔥 The old rite of the run

Village hearth → through the gate → arenas of the cursed wood (waves, a miniboss, a boss) → death sends you back to the village — but the forest cannot take everything: your Nawi Runes, your forged blade, your gear and your Mastery stay yours forever. Bank your progress by the fire, or press deeper for greater spoils. Hades-style runs, steeped to the bone in Slavic folklore.

🗡 What waits in the alpha (v0.1.0)

• An action prologue — learn the blade on a cursed night road, guided by the goddesses themselves
• Weighty sword combat — light combo chains, heavy blows that send charms flying, dodge-rolls with i-frames
• The Arsenal (skill draft) — press B in the village, lay out your pool of 11 skills, draft on every level-up
• 10 maps of Jawia — from the first rotten grove to Old Wij himself
• Borys the Smith — bring him Nawi Runes and he will sing your blade up the tiers; permanent equipment
• Mastery — every level a permanent boon: health, stamina, skill slots…
• Creatures of the old faith — Domownik, Uboże, Kłobuk, Południca, Utopiec, Zmora, Strzyga…
• Status effects (burn / bleed / blind), contextual music, full EN / PL
• 1 playable class (Witcher) — 3 sworn (Witcher, Shepherd, Monk)

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🌲 The road ahead

This alpha is the first stone of a larger temple: three classes, three worlds — Jawia, Prawia, Nawia — three endings. What rises next, and how fast, depends on the people who walk this forest:

If the alpha finds its players — downloads, comments, follows — I go all-in on this game. Every comment is a candle lit at the shrine. The forest listens.

💬 Speak, wanderer — after you play

• Does the combat feel right — too easy, too cruel, too flat?
• Does a Slavic-folklore roguelite hook you? What's missing?
• Does the atmosphere pull you in?
• Found a bug? Name it in the comments with the version number from the corner of the main menu.
• And — does it matter that it's built with AI tools? Curious, or a turn-off?

Brutal honesty welcome — that's the whole point. 🖤

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Step into the mist, champion of Mokosz. Bring Dziewanna home — or feed the forest like the rest.

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Windows 64-bit · ~360 MB · unzip & run CursedForest.exe · OST by DNO Records
A solo project, AI-assisted — 3D models, music and key art generated with AI tools, directed and assembled by me. Code written with AI pair-programming. An experiment in building a real game this way.