Pathos

Contrary Games

Pathos is a turn-based fantasy adventure inspired by retro dungeon crawlers. Experience deep, emergent gameplay with modern graphics, sound and a touch-first interface. Extensively customise your character and embark on epic procedurally generated campaigns.

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Overview

Pathos brings the depth and freedom of traditional roguelikes to a modern audience.

Over a decade of development has shaped Pathos into a deeply immersive fantasy roleplaying adventure. Choose from an extensive range of characters, master intricate systems and discover unexpected ways to overcome the challenges ahead. Explore vast, procedurally generated campaigns filled with strange creatures, powerful items and unexpected encounters. Experiment freely, embrace the consequences and watch out for Yet Another Stupid Death.

FEATURES

Turn-based, top-down and grid-based.
Permadeath, with the option to resurrect and continue your adventure.
Choose from 30 classes, 21 races, 18 specials and 9 companions.
Single-player adventures with one character or a party of up to six.
Split-screen local co-op.
Import custom sprites for your character and pet.
Real-time toggle to run time forward.
Global Hall of Fame.
Comprehensive contextual help.
Community translations into 18 languages.
Steam Deck including controller support.
Steam Cloud sync for settings, custom heroes, save files and bones files.
Four inbuilt tilesets:
- Sonyvanda - modern outlined pixel art.
- Absurd - semi-realistic photo art.
- Classic - retro pixel art.
- Geoduck - ASCII-inspired vector art.
Four campaign modules:
- NetHack Codex - a procedurally generated 40-level dungeon with hand-crafted branches.
- Kaloi Opus - a large procedurally generated overland world with side dungeons.
- Pixel Sojourn - a procedurally generated tribute to Shattered Pixel Dungeon.
- Dhak Legacy - a hand-crafted overland map.
Modding support:
- Easy replacement for tiles, music and sound effects.
- Quest/level editor studio and integration with Steam Workshop.
- Complex open source variants in C# with custom content and world generation APIs.

Pathos is made possible by an amazing community, whose contributions include level design, tile art and translations into numerous languages.

MELEE COMBAT

RANGED COMBAT

SPELL CASTING

STRATEGIC BATTLES

SECRET AREAS

Genres

AdventureRPG

Ways to play

Single-player
Multiplayer
Co-op
Couch co-op

Weak PC? It still plays

Play Pathos on a weak PC

Pathos needs at least 4 GB of RAM and 2 GB of VRAM. Cloud PC is a Windows computer with a strong GPU in the cloud. You control it from your laptop, phone or desktop.