DarkestPath

A race to refuge

Moonshores

The village is waking.
Keep to the shadows.

Android
Action runner
Pixel art

In development. Release details will be announced here.

DarkestPath title above a hooded vampire running towards a moonlit village — A wrong turn. A waking village. A way out.

Inside the game

One more stretch
before shelter.

Real gameplay from prototype 0.73 with touch controls enabled. Each portrait panel contains three full landscape captures. Select a panel for a closer look.

Development captures

A wider view.

Choose a refuge on the Wrong Village map.

Cross the cemetery roofline towards refuge.

Keep ahead of the hunt through the village.

Additional landscape captures from development builds, including the 0.76 map. The original portrait compositions above are retained.

About this game

A little darkness.
A narrow escape.

Outrun a torch-bearing mob through a hostile village. Jump over obstacles, crawl through low passages and find refuge before the hunt catches up.

Awaken vampire powers as the campaign unfolds. Spend Blood on mist, bat form and Shadow Dash, and use shadow to recover from the sun.

Action runnerVampire powersPixel artEndless Hunt

Read the full game description

A wrong turn. A waking village. A vampire with somewhere to be.

DarkestPath is a dark pixel-art action runner from Moonshores. Keep moving through a hostile village, leap over obstacles and crawl through low passages while a torch-bearing mob closes in behind you.

Find your way to refuge Escape through three connected levels in The Wrong Village: The Bad Supper, Over the Rooftops and The Cemetery Run. Reach shelter to unlock the next escape. Local progress and best times let you return to a completed level and try a cleaner run.

Move like a vampire Jump, climb and slide through the route. Awaken runes as you progress to use mist, bat form and Shadow Dash. Each power spends Blood, so choose when to use it and feed on prey along the way to restore your reserves.

Read the danger Watch the light, the hunters and the obstacles ahead. Sunlight drains Health; shelter in solid shadow to recover. Take a rooftop route or slip through a low passage, and keep enough distance from the pursuing crowd.

Keep the hunt going Explore the seeded Endless Hunt mode beyond the finite campaign escapes. Changing routes combine obstacles, hunters and moments of breathing room.

Moonlit scenery, warm torchlight and a gothic interface give DarkestPath its own pixel-art world. On-screen controls put jumping, crawling, feeding and available powers within reach.

Made by Moonshores. Play is good.

Made by Moonshores

For the joy of the escape.

A curious world, a close call, and that just-one-more-go feeling.

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