BABEL

A tower built as a refuge. A crown that demands a sacrifice.

BABEL is a single-player dark fantasy Metroidvania. Take up a pilgrim's sword, descend through buried passages, and find a way through the tower's ruined courts. Every guardian defeated gives you another way to cross its world.

Windows 64-bit · v0.55.0 · Completely free · In development

Learn the tower. Change how you fight.

• Five distinct guardians — face heavy blades, burrowing ambushes, aerial assaults, arcane traps and the crowned king Nero.
• Directional sword combat — slash upward, strike from above and rebound from a successful downward hit.
• Abilities that open new paths — acquire a sustained shockwave, wall-jump, double-jump and directional dash. Fractured seals give way to the shockwave.
• Eight runes — combine their effects, collect gold and visit merchants to shape your journey.
• A story in the ruins — voiced encounters, illustrated scenes, recovered writings and a map revealed as you explore.
• Return to your journey — save progress at checkpoint altars, with configurable controls, audio and screen-shake settings.

Abilities & systems

Gameplay captured in-engine from the v0.55.0 game code using an isolated showcase save.

Sustained Shockwave

Choose a direction and release a continuous beam. You can move while the beam remains active. Costs one Spirit.

Shockwave in the other three directions

Aim left

Aim upward

Fire downward from the air

Cross the tower

Double jump

Jump again before landing to reach higher paths.

Wall slide & wall jump

Press toward a wall, then jump to push away and climb.

Crystal Dash

Hold Shift for 0.7 seconds while aiming, then launch. Releasing before the charge completes cancels it.

Crystal Dash: left, up and down

Dash left

Dash upward

Dash downward

Choose your powers

Rune repository & attunement

Inspect recovered runes and their stories at any time. Return to a checkpoint altar to equip or remove powers; carry up to four.

The wayfarer’s exchange

Browse provisions and permanent relics, inspect their effects, then spend your collected gold.

Sword directions & healing

Directional sword attacks

Restore Vitality with Spirit

Stand still and hold A for three seconds to restore one Vitality using one Spirit.

Guardians in motion

Actual in-game captures: heavy strikes, underground ambushes and aerial attacks.

Getting started

Choose New Journey and follow the opening instructions. You begin without every ability: find your sword, defeat guardians and return to passages you could not reach before. Continue Journey resumes saved progress at your checkpoint.

Default keyboard controls

Input	Action
Arrow keys	Move / aim in a cardinal direction
Space or C	Jump
X	Sword attack — hold Up or Down to direct the strike
Z or V	Shockwave, once acquired — uses Spirit
Hold Shift + direction	Crystal Dash: charge for 0.7 seconds, once acquired
Hold A	Heal — uses Spirit
E	Interact
Tab / M	Rune repository / explored map
Esc / Q	Pause / dismiss or go back

Keyboard bindings can be changed in Settings. Gamepad controls and automatic input prompts are included; controller compatibility is still being tested.

Download & play

1. Download the Windows ZIP below.
2. Extract the entire Babel folder.
3. Run bable.exe. Keep bable_Data and the included libraries beside it.

No Unity Editor or separate installer is required. Allow approximately 1.5 GB of free space after extraction. This download is the campaign; the developer's separate practice build is not included.

Development build

This is a free portfolio project under active development. Combat balance, animation transitions and exploration routes are still being refined. If something goes wrong, please leave a comment with your game version, area or guardian, input device and the steps that led to it.

Credits

Game design & programming: 王奕博 / Wang Yibo (Hajimi9914).

Game artwork includes AI-generated and adapted assets. Character dialogue uses synthetic voices. Selected audio and environment resources: Kenney (CC0). Uncial Antiqua typeface: SIL Open Font License. Built with Unity.

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