Everise: Toss Loot, Upgrade a Town, and Beat the Prophecy
The prophecy is blunt: the world is in danger and the only solution is to climb a giant tower and reach its summit. In Everise you play the lone hero making that climb while your people scramble to build a town at the tower base. Your job is oddly practical - gather materials, loot monsters, and throw everything out the balcony so the town can be built and defended.
The loop is immediate and tense. Each day you push higher into the tower until your hero runs out of stamina or health. Back at ground level waves of raiders assault your settlement in an auto-battler style event. If the defenses are not strong enough, the town will fall. Your success depends on how efficiently you strip the tower for parts and gear, and how wisely you funnel them into upgrades for both hero and guards.
Scavenge the Tower
Rooms in the tower are full of monsters and ready-to-use riches. Furniture is not decoration here - it is assembled raw material. Smash chairs, break cabinets, and loot fallen enemies to fill your limited inventory. Efficiency matters because your hero only has a finite pool of health and stamina each day.
Inventory management becomes a core choice. Do you carry weapons and tools to make future climbs easier, or prioritize building materials your town desperately needs? At the end of each floor you reach a balcony where you can literally toss your haul down to the construction crews below. That aerial extraction is both clever and central to the game loop - what you throw out the window changes the next day's defenses and your own prospects in the tower.
Build Defenses and Watch the Waves
As resources arrive in town you assign them to new buildings and defensive contraptions. Structures grant upgrades that can improve your hero's capabilities inside the tower, or bolster the army that meets the nightly raider waves. The attacker force grows every day, so allocation is a constant trade-off between short-term survival and long-term progress.
Raids are handled as auto-battler events. You field a line-up of guards and deploy traps and contraptions you unlocked. The result is a two-way dependency: stronger tower runs feed better defenses, and stronger defenses buy you more days to push higher.
Magic Gems and Tactical Turn-Based Combat
Combat inside the tower is tactical and deliberate. Actions are simultaneous, meaning when you act enemies behave too. To tip the scales you assemble a deck of Magic Gems that let you cast spells with different timings. Some spells are Quick and resolve before enemies act, others are Slow and resolve afterwards. That timing is the fulcrum of many encounters.
Spells let you evade attacks, reposition enemies, or trick foes into hitting each other. Creativity wins here - baiting, shuffling battlefield positions, and clever use of slow versus quick effects can minimize time spent fighting and maximize what you can scavenge before the day ends. Notably your hero cannot die, so the challenge is about efficiency and planning rather than permanent failure.
A Game of Tight Choices and Timing
Everise stacks short, meaningful loops into a larger race: every room you clear, every piece of furniture you break, and every gem you cast affects the fragile balance between your climb and the townsfolk holding the line below. It is a resource management puzzle wrapped in turn-based tactical fights, with the cheeky extraction method of throwing loot down the balcony keeping the stakes literal and visible.
