Revengate

About the game

Revengate is a turn-based roguelike set in a steampunk version of Lyon, France, in 1855. You work as an investigator for the mysterious Lux Co., and the game is played as a series of short chapters, each one with its own story told in text, its own map and its own people to meet. Between the fights there are real conversations: you talk to barkeepers, clerks and strangers, and what they say shapes what you do next.

The dungeon part is the classic one. The world is a grid, every step you take lets everything else take a step too, and a careless move in a corridor can end the run. Along the way you find potions and odd steampunk devices, and you fight automata, thieves and creatures drawn by a handful of illustrators.

The game is an independent project by Yannick Gingras with a small group of friends and contributors. It was first published for phones, and this version runs the same game in the browser, with the keyboard and the mouse.

Playing it here

Click Play and wait for the game to load (about 33 MB, downloaded only when you press the button). Press "New Game!" to start the first chapter; the opening story screen has a "Next..." button at the bottom. The game saves in your browser on this device and "Resume" appears on the start screen when a save exists.

Controls

The buttons at the top right open the world map and the examine tool, among other screens, and the hourglass at the bottom right skips a turn.

Tips

Wait with the hourglass. In a turn-based game, letting an enemy come to you is often better than walking into the room.

Talk to everyone. Most characters have something to say, and some of the conversations change the chapter.

Use the examine tool. It tells you what the things around you are before you step next to them.

Mind the doors. Doors can be closed to cut a line of sight; the context menu for a door cell lets you close it.

FAQ

Does it work on a phone? The game was made for phones, and the touch controls are in the game, but this page is made for a computer.

Is it finished? The author says the game has rough edges and is still being developed, so expect some.

Is it free to share? Yes. The code is free software under the GNU GPL version 3 or later, and the art and sounds are under free licences listed below.

Credits and licence

Revengate was made by Yannick Gingras with additional coding by JT Wright, Ryan Prior, Nicole Schwartz, Steve Smith, Angel Hudgins, Josephine Maya Simple, Victor Hunt, Chris J. Wallace, Rodrigo Espinosa de los Monteros and Boris Vorobev, and testing by Colin Etienne Jean-Marie Landreau and others. The code is under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or any later version; the source of this build is linked from this page. The game runs on Godot Engine 4.4.1, under the MIT licence.

• Tiles: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup team, CC0.
• Illustrations: Jonathan Timmons (CC BY-SA), Clara Baltoré Pooter, Tuyên Đặng and Jason Teves (CC BY), 2021; the title screen is by Zanya Fernández Rodríguez (CC BY-SA). Two illustrations are public domain.
• Sound effects: CC0 by Ben (artisticdude), rubberduck and faxcorp; some by Yannick Gingras (CC BY-SA); a bottle sound by spookymodem (CC BY 3.0).
• Particles by Kenney (CC0), clip art by Open Clipart (CC0), room layouts by Zorbus (CC0), a historical map of Lyon in the public domain.
• Fonts: GNU FreeFont (GPL-3.0-or-later) and Symbola (free for any use).

Changes made for this site: three sound effects that the credits file of the game does not cover were removed (the game plays silently where they were used); the links in the About and Credits screens do not open other pages; and the large illustrations are loaded at a smaller size. Nothing else in the game was changed. The full licence texts and the source of this build are linked from this page.