Welcome Back, Hero Demo

One room. One hero at a time.

Make the room kill someone who already knows how you kill. Every round a hero walks into your room and heads for the vault. Between rounds you buy traps and monsters and move them. Then he learns, and comes back ready for your last build.

  • Free demo
  • Play in browser
  • Puzzle strategy
Welcome Back, Hero cover art: a knight with a blue sash flanked by a mage and a rogue in a castle hall

The Castle Cellar · demo

Play in your browser

The tutorial and the first ten rooms, with warriors, rogues, a mage and a cleric coming through the door. Best on a computer with a mouse.

  • Mouse Drag pieces into the room
  • Space Open the door
  • H Rules
  • Esc Pause
  • Controller works too

Support

Help the other nine places get built

The demo is free. The Castle Cellar is one of ten places on the map, and the rest are under construction. If you enjoyed it, you can chip in any amount on itch.io.

How it plays

He remembers

  • 1

    One room

    Walls, oil, fire plates, spikes, pits, goblins, archers. Buy them and move them between rounds.

  • Learns

    He writes it down

    The damage that hurt him most comes back as armor. Burn him once and he returns wearing the answer.

  • Marks

    The cell, not the piece

    He walks around cells where a trap went off. Move the trap and the mark stays behind.

  • Route

    See the detour first

    His route is drawn on the board while you still hold the piece, so you see it before you pay.

Screenshots

Inside the cellar

In development

Nine more places on the map

Tell us how far you got and what the hero learned. Leave a comment on itch.io or follow the studio for updates.