A black metal-fueled Necromancer Base-Building Action-RPG where you play as a cast-out witch embracing the darkness. Survive the wilderness, raise undead armies, summon demons and fallen angels, fortify your exile against raids, and craft a phylactery to ascend as an undying lich. Burn villages, churches, and your enemies to ash in this gritty dark fantasy revenge saga.
Grimfog Story & Setting:
Accused of witchcraft and exiled from your village, you flee into a semi-open, handcrafted world of perpetual gloom—crumbling ruins, haunted wilds, and hostile settlements. Uncover forbidden necromantic texts, raid cemeteries, and perform unholy rituals. Your path leads to phylactery crafting and lichdom, where revenge means razing it all: villages, fortresses, and holy sites. Immersed in a dark metal soundtrack that amps the destruction.
Planned Gameplay Highlights:
- Necromancy Mastery: Raise slain foes as undead minions, summon demons & fallen angels to crush attackers.
- Base Building Survival: Construct shelters, workspaces, barricades; defend against villager raids, guards, paladins.
- Action Combat: Timing & positioning-focused hack-and-slash vs. wildlife, clerics, soldiers—loot, rob, smash!
- Crafting & Progression: Gather resources, forge weapons/tools, discover spells (healing, destruction, domination).
- Lich Ascension: Sacrifice mortality via phylactery ritual for immortality—destroy it, and you’re done.
- Procedural Replayability: Handcrafted world with proc-gen elements, environmental puzzles, planned dungeon endgame.
- Black Metal Vibe: Original dark metal OST; mature themes (violence, gore, possible nudity). Offline single-player. store.steampowered.com
Studio & Publisher:
- Developer: Dire Prism (@journeys_ARPG on X) – Indie solo/small team crafting unique ARPG survival with black metal soul.
- Publisher: Dire Prism
- Platforms: PC (Steam) – Controller & KBM support; Steam Deck TBD. store.steampowered.com
Current Status:
- Wishlist on Steam: TBA release – Add to wishlist for updates! store.steampowered.com
- Sys Req (Min): Win10, i5 2GHz, 8GB RAM, GTX 1050, 5GB storage.
- Trailer: Watch on Steam
Why Wishlist Grimfog Now?This isn’t your standard ARPG—it’s a fresh blend of base-building defense (think survival raids), deep necromancy progression, and visceral action combat in a black metal apocalypse. Perfect for fans of Diablo-style loot/grind mixed with survival crafting like Valheim but darker, grimier. Indie gem with huge potential; support early to shape its endgame dungeons!
For ARPG Fans:
If you crave build-your-army revenge tales (Path of Exile necros, Diablo summons) with base defense twists, Grimfog delivers. Timing-based fights reward skill over stats; phylactery risk adds permadeath tension. Wishlist & follow dev for devlogs—next big indie ARPG?
How to Support / Follow
- Wishlist on Steam
- Follow @journeys_ARPG on X for updates

