The swipe is everything
Move, attack, dodge and gamble collapse into a single gesture. Mastery is reading the arena, not learning buttons.
SEVER.
A one-swipe committed-melee roguelite. The swipe is the move, the attack, the dodge and the gamble — at once.
Built in Godot by Pixezia · Out now on iOS & Android
The game
Every swing is a commitment
A swipe anywhere performs a dash-slash with four phases — startup, active, recovery, ready. You are invulnerable only while the blade travels, so you dodge through attacks by slashing through them. Whiff, and the recovery can be punished. There is no auto-attack. There is no safe button.
Design pillars
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One finger. Total commitment.
Dodge through, not away
Invulnerability lives inside the dash. The bravest line through an attack is straight through it.
Waves, drafts, Wardens
Clear waves of hunters, draft 1-of-3 upgrades between them, and face a Warden at the end of every floor.
Death pays forward
Bank fragments in the hub to unlock new blades — dagger, naginata, greatsword and more — and deeper card pools.
The arena
Know your hunters
Hand-placed pixel art, rendered razor-crisp. Every silhouette telegraphs its threat.
You
One blade. One finger.
Chaser
Relentless pursuit.
Zoner
Owns the space you need.
Heavy
Punishes hesitation.
Lunger
Strikes in a blink.
The Warden
Every floor ends in one.
The armory
Katana
Dagger
Naginata
Nodachi
Blades change how you think
Unlock weapons that reshape the dash itself — reach, speed, risk.
KatanaDaggerNaginataNodachi
The run
How a run flows
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Swipe. Dash-slash through the wave. Read telegraphs, thread the gaps, punish the punishable.
2
Draft. Between waves, pick 1 of 3 upgrades and bend the run toward your build.
3
Face the Warden. Survive the floor's boss to descend deeper.
4
Fall. Return sharper. Bank fragments, unlock new blades and card pools, and go again.
The blade is drawn.
SEVER is available now on the App Store and Google Play.