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Kindred Ills playtest
by Angel Flayer
Kindred Ills is a dark, loot-focused tile-based dungeon crawler. Build a party of mercenaries, discover powerful spells and items, and fight your way through dangerous biomes where death is permanent. Find rare loot, and push your party further with increasingly brutal difficulties and modifiers.
Anyone with a Steam account can join, and it's free.
- Access
- Instant
- On playtest since
- Oct 2, 2026
- Planned release
- Q1 2027
- Developer
- Angel Flayer
- Platforms
- Windows
- Players
- Single-player
- Languages
- English
How to join the Kindred Ills playtest
- Open the game's Steam page with the Join playtest button. Sign in to Steam if it asks.
- Use the Kindred Ills playtest signup there. You're in straight away, with nothing to pay.
- The playtest shows up in your Steam library, ready to install and play.
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About Kindred Ills
Purchase Mercenaries
Recruited from the Gladiator Den.
Each one is unique, randomly rolled base stats, and marked by a single trait.
- Level Up
- Item Find
- Craft
Quest Run
The world is broken into tile-based battles across a 6x13 grid. Most tiles will pit you against monsters. Others offer treasures.
Hidden deep within each biome lies a secret dungeon, sealed behind a key. Conquer it, and you’ll push into the next realm.
Survive the journey through four distinct biomes.
Sewer Run
Descend into the rotting underworld.
Face enemies armed with randomized gear, and push ever deeper.
Sewer Run
Descend into the rotting underworld.
Face enemies armed with randomized gear, and push ever deeper.
Loot
Every weapon, every gem, every drop is a roll of the dice.
- Primary Modifiers appear in light blue.
- Secondary Modifiers appear in blue.
Crafting
Salvage the unnatural to forge the exceptional.
- Upgrade equipment through found materials.
- Socket gear with Pearls, mutated relics containing three potential stats.
- Only one stat will transfer. Success chances are shown beneath each stat.
Choose wisely. You only get one shot.
Equipment
Each mercenary can be armed with their own arsenal of armour, jewellery, and weapons.
Every item features a unique sprite, rendered in grim, hand-drawn style.
From the game's Steam page.
