Cursed and Fading

About Cursed and Fading

In Cursed and Fading, a lich's curse has shattered your soul across a world of fog and ruin, and the body you are given is already failing. Every move costs something: with each tile you cross you choose which of six stats to give up, one point at a time. Let Constitution run out and you die; let the others fade and your options narrow with them.

Each life starts strong and equipped on a procedurally generated map of small, medium or large size. You spawn at a church, rest at inns, buy gear from merchants and open chests for gold, soul shards or equipment. Combat resolves automatically, your gear against the enemy's abilities, and six classes, Archer, Knight, Heavy Knight, Mounted Knight, Samurai and Wizard, set your starting stats, with more than 400 pieces of equipment to find. When you die, you respawn as one of the classes and try again.

The Daily Run breaks from the random maps: the whole world plays the same map from the same start, starting every midnight UTC, and your score on the Steam leaderboards depends on how much damage you land on the lich in the fewest moves. It runs on Windows and Linux.

It suits players who like resource-management roguelikes where every move is a cost.

How to play Cursed and Fading

1. Launch Cursed and Fading on Steam and start the Daily Run.
2. Move across the map; each tile costs a point of a stat you choose.
3. Visit inns, merchants and chests to recover and gear up.
4. Fight enemies; combat resolves from your equipment against theirs.
5. Reach the lich and deal as much damage as you can in as few moves as possible.

Tips

• Spend stats you do not need for your class first and protect Constitution.
• Plan a route through inns; resting is how you buy back time.

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