A 2.5D action platformer · PC & mobile

Soul‑Dash Eternal Light

Fantasy through the ages, telling the heart-breaking stories of heroes chasing their salvation. Dash through despair. Drain the dark. Burn brighter than the abyss that hunts you.

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Genre: Action / Adventure platformer
View: 2.5D, controller-optimized
Players: Single-player
Session: 5–8 min per map
ESRB: Teen (Violence)

Outside time

A loud bang. Then the world began to break.

In the middle ages, oceans move, mountains crumble and the night screams in unison. Heroes scattered across the world experience their worst loss in life on the same day, all signalled to seek the source.

Each begins at home. Each ends at the same impossible fortification — centuries old, yet built in days — where an eldritch horror waits beneath. Beating it once is not enough. The truth is older, and worse: this is preparation for what humanity will face in the stars.

Only those who finish every map are worthy to guard the ones who go beyond.

Dashers

Four heroes. Four tragedies. One pull toward the dark.

Each Dasher thrives in light and is torn by darkness. Stay in the safe places, drain ambient sources to rejuvenate, and turn your soul into shield and blade. Launch starts with four; up to a dozen are planned.

Patrono

The Knight · Francs

Short-burst dashes through the press of steel. Raised in a stronghold he could not save.

Signature: burst dash
Jidovina

The Monk · Carpathians

Mountain ascetic who blinks between heartbeats and chains them into a storm.

Signature: blink chaining
Agatha

The Ranger · Vast Steppes

Climbs what others can’t and swings across what they won’t. Loss made her quiet, not slow.

Signature: climb & swing
Haru

The Samurai · Far East

From a fishing village swallowed by the deep. Patient, precise, and hunting an answer.

Signature: TBD

Planned roster expansion

The Vanished

What you could become.

Anyone who tried to find the Master and wasn’t strong enough got lost in eternal darkness. They drag everyone and everything toward the same abyss they fell into.

Beat them, slip past them, or trade with them. Your decisions may benefit your journey — or thwart it.

Master of the Universe

An eternal from deep space.

It arrived as an asteroid. It made the mountain. It has stayed under the ocean for thousands of years, raising children to take care of themselves. You will fight it three times: to avenge, to understand, and finally to prove yourself.

2 → 3 → 4 staged boss fights across three ages.

World

Three ages. One pit beneath them all.

Medieval (5+1)

Dark forest
Dead hunting village
Toxic swampy lake
Dead fishing village
Stone tower of dark knights

+ Pit of the Elder — 2-stage boss

Modern (4+1)

Cargo ship through storm
Shinkansen on board
Office tower of the dark suits
Raging Fuji

+ Pit of the Elder — 3-stage boss

III

Post-modern (3+1)

Stormy beach, flooded
Windy desert roads
Biodome collapse in storm

+ Pit of the Elder — 4-stage boss

Core mechanic

Light vs Darkness

One resource. Inner light. It is your health, your currency, and your cooldown. Drain the world’s lamps, torches and god-rays to refill it. Step into the abyss and it bleeds away. When it hits zero, dark hands pull you under.

Drain to live

Pull strong light into ambient and gain “credit.” The deep abyss takes credit back — faster the longer you stay.
Spend it on power

Special movement and skills draw from the same pool. Skills won’t kill you, but spamming them leaves you vulnerable.
Carry the flame

Pick up torches in dangerous places — they drain instead of you. Solve light-based logic puzzles to break a path open.
Risk & reward backtracking

Return to old maps to farm light. Earlier enemies feel weaker; values scale to keep things sharp. Catch up by grinding — a little — without going monotone.

Think Sonic’s rings — pushed to the extreme, with a twist.

Systems

Tight controls. Loud feedback. Heavy consequence.

Controls

Move (WASD / thumbstick)
Dodge
Parry — hold to defend
Hit — hold for strong hit
Special move

Platforming

Coyote time, jump buffering
Double jump, ledges
Solid & one-way platforms
Springs, elevators, escalators
Disappearing ledges, push-plates

Combat

1-2-3 finisher chains
Charge attack, parry, counter
Roll, jump, blink dodges
Ranged & jump attacks
States: stun, drain, heal, slow, knockback

Stealth

Vision & walk-speed model
Crouch and hide in environment
Damage bonus from break

Enemy behaviour

Patrol, swarm, block, dodge
Light-drainers — kill on sight
Bosses with multi-phase escalation

Juiciness

Camera shake on hit
Pulsating shadows on low health
Red & black abyss creeping up from the floor
God-rays on heal & safe zones
Bright glow & sparks on parry

Waitlist

Be there when the dark breaks.

Soul-Dash: Eternal Light is in pre-production. Sign up to hear first about playtests, the first vertical slice, demo drops, and launch — no spam, no churn, just the next milestone when it’s real.

Early playtest invites
Behind-the-scenes from production
Launch-day price & platform reveal

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Inspiration

Standing on the shoulders of giants.

Hollow KnightGraphics & map design
Elden RingCombat system
MoonlighterLoop & pacing
Old Man’s JourneyStorytelling
Gris · Limbo · InsideMood, silence, weight

Early concept art

Sketches from the studio floor.

Pre-production scribbles, silhouette studies and animation tests — shared as-is. None of this is final art; everything will be re-drawn, re-rigged and re-lit before launch. Shown here so the world feels real before the engine does.

No. 01 World map — scratchpad PNG · 2024 · Sandor Nagy
No. 02 Ranger silhouette & kit Character study · Agatha
No. 03 Knight combat test Animation loop · Patrono
No. 04 Movement study Animation loop · pre-rig

Soul‑Dash Eternal Light

A loud bang. Then the world began to break.

Four heroes. Four tragedies. One pull toward the dark.

Patrono

Jidovina

Agatha

Haru