Understory

The old forest is dreaming badly, and something at its heart has gone dark.

You are the last seed of light: a tiny wanderer crossing a vast, painted world to the top of it. A living ink called the blight is draining the colour and memory out of everything it touches, and the seasons have stopped turning. Five guardians once kept them. Now they are nightmares.

• Five seasons, five guardians. Cross the rain-soaked fens, the lightless Rootdeep, the red maples of Emberwood and the snows of the High Stair, and face the Old Stag, the Heron Queen, the Moth Mother, the Fox of Nine Embers and the Stone Ox.
• Plant light. Seeds of light bloom into traps, floating lily bridges, bursts that stun and reveal, fire that burns away the blight's thorns, and roots that stop a charging giant.
• Combat that rewards thought over twitch. Read each telegraphed attack, roll, strike, plant, reposition. No loot, no grind.
• Every victory heals the world. Colour floods back, a season returns, and the forest remembers.
• Painted and scored in code. Every pixel of art is brushed by hand-built generators: gouache and ink on warm paper, with a hushed, generative soundtrack.

Play with keyboard and mouse, a controller, or touch.