THE DARK STAIR

About this game

Descend a cursed tower one torchlit floor at a time in this bite-sized browser roguelike. Six heroes with real kits — plant the warrior's bulwark, vault the rogue clean over a foe's back, spend the mage's mana as armor and ammo both, raise the gravedigger's shambling dead, walk the pilgrim's road from the weakest start to a tower-shaking relic build, or parry with the mirrorblade and answer every blow in double. Win, then climb: five heats above every victory, each one crueler than the last. Catalogue every horror in the Bestiary, wear conduct badges for wins of restraint, kindle torch monuments with the embers your deaths leave behind — and race the one-attempt daily. The Lich waits on floor six. Every death is a lesson; the stair remembers. A GuruCloudAI first-party game, updated daily — some days hourly.

How to play

Desktop: WASD / arrows (+QEZC diagonals) to move, bump a foe to strike, click to travel, V/B/G for your class abilities, X to zoom, Enter to descend, ? for help. Mobile: the game is the whole screen — drag anywhere to walk (hold to keep walking), tap to fight, and hold any button or pack row to read what it does.