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Awakening of Darkness: Build, Survive and Defend playtest
by Orivion Games
Build by day, defend by night. In limited daylight, manage light to expand your settlement. Endure brutal night sieges and protect your city's heart. Defy the dark with the power of ancient runes. Can you hold the light until dawn breaks?
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- Access
- By request
- On playtest since
- Sep 10, 2025
- Planned release
- To be announced
- Developer
- Orivion Games
- Platforms
- Windows
- Players
- Single-player
- Languages
- Arabic, English, French, German and 11 more
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About Awakening of Darkness: Build, Survive and Defend
Darkness awakens to swallow civilization’s last spark. Awakening of Darkness is a survival strategy game where you expand the light during the brief daylight hours, then defend your walls against wave after wave of shadow creatures at night.
BUILD BY DAY: RACE AGAINST TIME
By day, sunlight is your most precious resource—but time is running out. Every second of your limited daylight must count:
- Send your workers to forests, quarries, and construction sites.
- Raise walls, position defensive towers, and establish your production chain.
- Construction locks when the sun sets. Unfinished walls are the first to fall in the darkness.
MANAGE THE LIGHT: BALANCE GROWTH AND DANGER
Light is your living space, but it draws the darkness’s attention:
- Build lanterns to push back the darkness and open up fertile new resource areas for your settlement.
- The farther your light shines, the more attention—and hunger—it attracts at night.
- Siege monsters target your lantern network. If a link breaks, outlying districts plunge into darkness and production grinds to a halt.
DEFEND BY NIGHT: PROTECT THE HEART OF YOUR CITY
At dusk, the rules change. Terrifying hordes rise from pitch-black darkness to test your borders:
- Create deadly chokepoints with archer towers, fire-spewing defenses, and traps.
- Face specialized enemies: gate-pounding Destroyers, worker-hunting Raiders, and shadow creatures that target lanterns.
- Issue emergency defense orders to reinforce collapsing gates with barricades or rally guards to critical fronts.
ANCIENT RUNES AND ROGUELITE POWERS
Every run brings a new fate and a different strategy:
- At dawn after each night you survive, unleash the power of ancient runes and shape your strategy.
- Accept cursed pacts that promise great power: multiply your defenses, but sacrifice part of your illuminated territory.
- Even if your city falls, spend the Soul Shards you earned to unlock permanent technologies and new leaders.
Darkness is awakening. Can you keep the light alive until dawn?
From the game's Steam page.
