Destroy the Wall

2D metroidvania action with a unique control scheme. Forever chase and protect your cursor--but don't ever touch it. Explore the mysterious Forsaken World, navigate through its decay, and learn to fight in a completely new way. Persevere and destroy the Wall that's always been holding you back.

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Enter the Forsaken World

Venture into a desolate land where every step of progress must be earned through struggle. At every step of the way, see new beauties, uncover new mysteries, and hone your skill at a uniquely challenging one-of-a-kind experience where you must defend your cursor without letting yourself get too close to it. Journey through a great maze of caverns, windswept plains, and ruined forests—as stopping means death, you have no other choice. Find forgotten memories that grant ancient powers. Hear the messages of the Wall's master. Defy him, and make your way through its ramparts and towers. Are you ready for what’s at the top? 

Core mechanics

  • Your character always follows your cursor

  • If your character and cursor touch, you will take damage

  • If your character runs into a wall, you will take damage

  • The character and cursor share a health pool. If they run out of health, you die

  • After dying, you respawn at the start of the current room, only seconds back

  • Monsters move throughout the world and will try to hurt you in unique ways

  • Monsters damage you by either directly hitting your cursor, or using attacks to hurt your cursor from afar (except for [REDACTED])

  • Hitting an enemy with your character damages it, and deflects your character backwards

  • As you progress, you can learn additional ways to damage monsters

  • Killing monsters grants EXP, which can increase things like health, damage, and acceleration

Game features

  • Tight action gameplay filled with tactical decision making 

  • Choose your own level of suffering! Difficulties range from “Painkiller” to “Everything hurts"

  • Expressive hand-drawn art for all sprites and levels with a deliberately janky aesthetic 

  • A sometimes brooding, sometimes epic soundtrack to echo your journey through an unforgiving world

  • Push through perilous passageways 

  • Fight fearsome foes

  • Find fragments of (alas, non-alliteratively) the past scattered throughout the world, and internalize them to gain new powers and open new paths

  • Discover [REDACTED]’s [REDACTED]s

By the Numbers

  • Over 400 perilous levels, spread out across twelve mechanically and visually unique areas, from a lake infested with a swarm of tenticles, to [REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED], to a shadowy domain filled with spiders—and worse

  • 40+ monsters with unique attack patterns, from giant swords that swing to attack you, to organs of pollution that drown you in clouds of smoke, to friendly hearts that share the gift of love with you (this gift is delivered in the form of a deadly laser)

  • 40 levels with unique benefits to be gained (uhm, technically, you can only gain 39 levels because you start at level 1)

  • 13 gripping boss fights

  • Possibly a few disappointing ones too

  • Over two hundred cosmetic collectables to be acquired through our slot machine loot box system which can be obtained by winning 10 battle royale games or by spending your parents' money

  • 1 bullet point directly above this one that is not actually true

  • One Wall, to be destroyed

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