Wardrum

Wardrum is a turn-based rhythm roguelite set in a fantasy world affected by off-beat magic. The player leads a warband of five warriors to stop the source of this corruption. Each defeat is explained as a blessing from the Rhythm Mother that lets the warband try again, and progress carried between runs is used to improve tactics and strengthen the warriors.

Combat takes place on a tactical grid. Players plan their movements and abilities, then perform them in time with a wardrum beat, with accurate timing increasing their effect and enabling critical strikes. Each ability has its own beat pattern, and debuffs such as bleeding, blinding and deafening interfere with rhythm inputs. A rhythm difficulty setting is available. On Easy, the game compensates for beat input timings and reduces the penalty for missed beats. The battlefield can also be used through pushing enemies off cliffs, triggering traps, and pulling foes into range of an archer.

Warbands are assembled from unit types including the warrior, assassin, summoner, warlock, archer and rogue. Units gain new abilities on branching paths as they level up, can equip two trinkets each, and have ultimate abilities. Custom rhythm abilities can also be created. Each run crosses six biomes with randomised map paths, battles, sanctuaries and other events, plus hazards, traps, ambushes and weather such as rhythmstorms, dense mists and eclipses. There are over 35 enemy types, and boss encounters include fallen gods and ancient dragons. The game has now passed 100 Steam reviews.