The game is a platformer focused on exploration, featuring simple but fairly hectic melee combat, as well as finding and equipping several ability-enhancing charms to augment the protagonist. The caverns throb and tremble with a savage energy that sends creatures mad with rage and robs explorers of their memories.Īs the enigmatic knight, players journey through the fallen kingdom of Hallownest in search of their origins, finding new areas, challenging several enemies and bosses, and gaining new abilities along their travels.
Villagers and explorers venturing into the caverns have stopped returning.
Though long fallen to ruin after a dimly-remembered catastrophe, explorers and thieves still brave its dark roads, its caverns and towers, searching for riches and wonders.
Long ago, a great and powerful being known only as the Pale King once ruled over Hallownest, a vast and ancient land of bugkind buried deep underground.
