BLEAKMARCH

a march through the drowned country

WHAT IT IS

A dice-and-story roguelike for iPhone. You are a courier on a drowned road; every courier you lose is written into the road, and the next one meets them. The first road and three kits are free, as many times as you like. The rest of the drowned country is one payment, once.

HOW THE DICE WORK

Each mile you roll a hand of five. In a story, a choice names a slot — HIGH, LOW or PAIR — and you put dice in it; the result is clean, at cost, or bad. In a fight, tap a die, then a card: LONGSWORD cuts, SHIELD blocks what it shows, SECOND WIND heals once, BREAK (a 6) cancels the monster's move. RESOLVE plays the round. The ? button in a fight explains everything on screen.

PURCHASES

"The Road Is Yours" is a single non-consumable purchase. If you have bought it and the door still shows, open the door and tap RESTORE A PURCHASE. Refunds are handled by Apple: reportaproblem.apple.com.

YOUR CHRONICLE

Your dead are kept on your phone and, if iCloud is on, in your iCloud key-value store so a reinstall or a new phone remembers them. To start the road clean: Settings (⚙ on the title screen) → Burn the Chronicle.

CONTACT

Bugs, a road that said something it could not prove, or anything else: jasonc.adcl@gmail.com. Include your iOS version and, if it is about a run, the road code from the title screen.