Vargrim Depths

The Cinder King wears the Ember Crown seven floors beneath the Last Hearth, and every torch in the world burns a little shorter for it. Vargrim Depths is a text-based dungeon crawler in the spirit of the classic MUDs — written room descriptions, ASCII monsters, a command line — wrapped around a modern roguelite core.

Delve, die, return stronger

• Seven procedurally dealt floors: bonepaths, fungal warrens, drowned galleries, ashen vaults, cinderworks, a slag cathedral, and the Undercrown itself.
• Deliberate turn-based combat — attack, skill, item, or flee. Enemies telegraph heavy blows, resist the wrong damage type, regenerate, and enrage when cornered, so every fight asks you to read it.
• A barred-stair mid-boss guards the descent, and the Cinder King reads your blows at the bottom.
• Your torch is the clock: every step and every blow burns light, and the dark fights dirty.
• Shrines, gamblers, murals, and a pale peddler between the fights.

Death is progress

• Every run earns embers, spent at the Keeper's Ledger on permanent stats, provisions, universal arts, commissioned trinkets, and new classes.
• Six classes — Sellsword, Knave, Warden, Pyre Friar, Hexen, and the Crownless (earned, not bought) — each with a three-skill kit.
• Six bloodlines with distinct passive traits, from the dark-sighted Stonekin to the Gravewrought, who refuse their first death.
• Cloud saves follow you between devices; a leaderboard ranks the deepest delvers.

Type help when you forget your manners. The Depths keep what they catch.