Roah

Released: Nov 28, 2019
Platforms: Windows
Last updated: 04 Sep 2026, 09:42 GMT

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19 Dec 2025Developer post
Announcing Wings of Vi 2! (wishlist now)
Wings of Vi 2: Guardian's Heart Hey everyone! I want Wings of Vi 2 development to be completely open and transparent. Raw progress updates, early builds, your feedback shaping the game, and all of us creating the best possible sequel side-by-side. It’ll stay true to my vision (th
Wings of Vi 2: Guardian's Heart
Hey everyone! I want Wings of Vi 2 development to be completely open and transparent. Raw progress updates, early builds, your feedback shaping the game, and all of us creating the best possible sequel side-by-side.
It’ll stay true to my vision (the one you loved in the first game), but your input will help me tune everything to perfection.
Guardian’s Heart – The Story
Ten years after Jeh’oul’s fall, Vi now carries the Guardian’s Heart – the final gift from her mother’s sacrifice. Only she can face the new threat rising:
Myougi, the grieving daughter of the underworld, has unleashed the manifestations of the Seven Deadly Sins to reclaim what she lost – no matter the cost.
From the Avatar’s holy seat, Vi descends into a fractured world of divided tribes, ancient beasts, sunlit shores, and shadowy grottos. Old friends return, new allies emerge, and everyone will confront hidden truths about themselves.
This time, victory demands love – the kind that survives loss, weighs the price of mercy, and resists forbidden power. But Myougi’s desperation has no limits. She’ll shatter the realms themselves if it means having her mother back.
The Sequel – Fluid, Accessible, Transformable
Building upon my custom engine, I aim to make Wings of Vi 2 the tightest, smoothest platformer I’ve ever made – more accessible than ever. That doesn't mean it's easy, and there's of course optional difficulties for the masochists (the RAGE).
Overworld Map – Quest-heavy story chapters, bite-sized trials, pure movement showcases, combat gauntlets, side-quests, secrets everywhere.
Fast & Fluid Combat – Attack while moving, mid-dash, mid-flutter. Chain everything into seamless combos and juggle enemies like a god.
Spells & Talents – Stack Holy Fire DoT, throw returning Celestial Spears, chain demons to fight for you or have your allies fight WITH you, Haste/Slow time, AoE abilities… some fun min-max depth.
Movement For Days – Double jump, flutter (2 charges or 1 long hold), ledge grab, leaping slam, Divine Shield hover, Holy Blast bounces - feels like cheating (in a good way).
Solo-dev’d by the creator of Wings of Vi and I Wanna Be the Boshy.
Wishlist on Steam!
Join other things:
✦ Discord (alphas, weekly updates, direct feedback):
https://discord.gg/AEMGEWdPpY

✦ Itch.io (open alpha, feedback, devlogs):
https://wingsofvi2.itch.io/wingsofvi2

✦ Other news on X:
https://x.com/WingsOfVi2
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02 Dec 2023Developer post
Winter Patch!
Join the Roah Discord! Thank you all for your support. The new game project is still underwraps, but I can confirm it's a 2D platformer. I'm able to build off of Roah and I also hope to keep making Roah better. Following changes have been made: Can now change magic equip during a
Join the Roah Discord! Thank you all for your support. The new game project is still underwraps, but I can confirm it's a 2D platformer. I'm able to build off of Roah and I also hope to keep making Roah better. Following changes have been made:

Can now change magic equip during a boss fight.
Can now chain downwards into upwards drill because fun.
New sound to indicate a foe with high damage reduction.
Kra platforms w i d e r.
After defeating the Risen Commander, it shows the exit of the boss room.
Added a stationary enemy next to the first insect bomb that is easy to hit.
Sekkian Incubators gains armor when spitting out enemies, but loses armor overtime.
Effects to show which objects switches affect when pressed.
Armor break now stuns the foe for 2 seconds.
Greater Crocorilla nerf.
Changes in the temple dungeon, mini dungeon.
Fixed a very rare softlock on the second to last boss.
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27 Sep 2021Developer post
September Patch
Join the Roah Discord! Thank you for your support. This patch revolves around adding some quality of life changes, some small segments to help tutorialise better and some more props/sounds. A big change this patch is a small rework of the Tethria boss fight. Her armor has been re
Join the Roah Discord! Thank you for your support. This patch revolves around adding some quality of life changes, some small segments to help tutorialise better and some more props/sounds. A big change this patch is a small rework of the Tethria boss fight. Her armor has been removed in favor of some health. Her ink ball has changed and will leave a persisting projectile that you have to manage throughout the fight and acts as a soft enrage. The rest of her attacks are the same and you can still hit the tentacles to optimise damage and beat her quicker, which is now a more frequent part of the fight. As a side note, I am working on a new game that is kept under wraps until further notice. I want to make a lot of content for it and iterations on it before I announce it so keep a lookout on my twitter or on grynsoft.com. Following changes have been made:

Tethria has some new moves.
Added new sound for summoning a Forefather.
Updated icons like joystick wiggle when knocked down.
Improved normal swim dash speed.
Added new sound for the Sekkian Dracofly.
Added small segment in the beginning of the forest hive.
Made the first checkpoint in Deepest Depths a bit easier to see.
Added small segment in start of the Temple Dungeon.
Added Roah dialogue when reaching 0 savepoint charges for the first time.
New underwater and cave entrance graphics.
Down swing on spirit marks will now send you flying even if you don't hold left/right.
Added new sounds for Kt'i's jump and spin dash.
Added new sound for falling down pits.
Scrolls are now auto-equipped when you pick them up, not just the first one.
Added small segment by Avery.
Added new sound & effect for the Damp Bell.
Improved hitbox for Tail Spike.
Improved electricity effect.
Sea Queen Misu now requires a bit more to help you.
Added sounds to Field Marshal's death animation.
Added a tablet with some more lore and hints towards the King of Death boss fight.
Added "If consumed," to upgrade containers.
Added aiming marker graphics for attacks that aim at Roah.
Fixed issue with getting stuck on a ledge until you jumped if going up a slope.
Fixed issue with enemies sometimes not animating when they attack if they had just been stunned.
Fixed arrow lingering for a few frames after climbing.
Fixed Kt'i's rolling animation speed.
Fixed Kt'i's projectiles not always going away when being defeated.
Fixed camera spazzing a bit sometimes during respawn animation.
Fixed bouncing during the tail sliding tutorial scene.
Fixed knockdown wiggle visual sometimes being a little too much.
Fixed some text formatting.
Added guide lines to King of Death's spikes.
Added little magic icons to the magic replenishers.
Made damage and healing text have a size limit.
Fixed an issue with the menu sometimes getting stuck in shop-mode.
Added creepy ghost smoke to the crypt.
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16 Mar 2021Developer post
QOL Update
Join the Roah Discord! Following changes have been made: Tail slam now hits knocked down opponents and is slightly faster. Improved recovery time on Roah's pincer and tail slam. Tighter control on Roah. Fixed some typos. Ladder improvements. Moka & Latte's Bodyguard now shoot
Join the Roah Discord! Following changes have been made:

Tail slam now hits knocked down opponents and is slightly faster.
Improved recovery time on Roah's pincer and tail slam.
Tighter control on Roah.
Fixed some typos.
Ladder improvements.
Moka & Latte's Bodyguard now shoots a little slower and has more time inbetween attacks.
Several animation changes to Roah including running stop.
Small Kt'i health reduction.
Small tethria health reduction.
Normal enemies have reduced invincibility.
Knockdown wiggle visual improvement.
Time limit inside the core increased.
Other small fixes.
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03 Nov 2020Developer post
Roah is now available for the Nintendo Switch!
Roah is now available for the Nintendo Switch in the Americas, Europe, Australia and New Zealand!
27 Oct 2020Developer post
ROAH ON THE SWITCH
Grynsoft's latest game ROAH is going to released on the Nintendo Switch on november 3rd! Check out the pre-release eShop page:
09 Aug 2020Developer post
QOL Update
The new QOL update featuring optimizations for lower-end PCs, new settings menu and other things is now ready. - Big optimization improvements (Not noticeable on newer computers) - New settings menu - New control setting for gliding - New graphical changes like moss in the sea wo
25 Jun 2020Developer post
Summer Sale Update!
Happy summer everyone, Made a small update to the game, fixing some minor bugs and added a new costume for the summer: The Bikini Get-up! Purchase it from any Mia spot in the game c: Join the Roah Official Discord:
29 Apr 2020Developer post
Spring Update
Hi, hope you're enjoying Roah c: ! Made some changes lately: New outfit: The Woodlands Garb! Final area now has some extra rooms leading up to the final bosses. New room in the crypt to better show the Magistrix enemy. New chests in the last area. Combat Analyzer Module now also
Hi, hope you're enjoying Roah c: ! Made some changes lately:

New outfit: The Woodlands Garb!
Final area now has some extra rooms leading up to the final bosses.
New room in the crypt to better show the Magistrix enemy.
New chests in the last area.
Combat Analyzer Module now also makes every attack jump cancellable and be able to hit knocked down opponents. It was a bit too specific to use, this should make it better overall.
Mia now gives you all the hints she currently has, instead of a random one. It wasn't clear that she could say multiple things if you kept asking her.
Item cooldowns now reset upon death.
Changed Kra flamethrower to last less time and he is better at aiming.
Last area now better shows where the death zones are.
Tethria now shuts up when you beat her.
Lowered Tethria's health a bit. Because of an armor change, her effective health was a bit higher than needed.
Tethria's phase change now has a moving lightning blanket, instead of appearing instantly.
Changed "exit" to "quit game" in the pause menu. It was a bit confusing and some players would accidentally press exit to try and return to the game.
King of Death has a new UI graphic for his secondary bar, and added visual effect to it that should make it more clear what it's doing.
Made outfits a bit pricier.
Mia would sometimes have empty items.
Combat Trainers would sometimes have 2 dialogue images.
Fixed animation issue with the Schematics scroll.
Kt'i will now fly up as she enters her final phase.
Added a new combat trial on the final combat trainer.
Fixed the Field Marshal spawning an abomination during her intro on Grandmaster difficulty.
Improved Kt'i's acid throw animation.
Fixed boss savepoints showing 20 charges instead of 15.
The final boss now loses armor as you hit, instead of when you exit. It should make it more clear.
New armor icon, should be more clear now.
Poison tick counter isn't reset upon doing a new poison attack. This should should help dealing damage with poison, as you don't have to wait for it to tick.
Kt'i's massive acid ball now has a new color, a guideline and is behind other projectiles. This helps with seeing where her acid spits land behind the ball- and to distinguish it from other projectiles
Fixed Roah being too lit up in the pause menu at times.
New bouncy cactus graphic
New insect swarm graphic for backgrounds
Optimization in the Deepest Depths.
How many containers you've gotten is now shown in the pause menu statistics.
Moka & Latte has a new hardmode attack where they both do their attacks for some time, instead of doing it at low health.
Added red swirl effects on some projectiles to be more clear.
Fixed being bounced back a little when flying in reverse gravity.
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23 Mar 2020Developer post
Outfit updates and more
- Added ethereal claws to the angel costume! - Added golden plates and a golden tail to the princess costume! - Having your gravity changed now also rotates the screen, making it much less disorienting for some players. I wanted to have part of the difficulty being the axis you w
06 Feb 2020Developer post
February 2020 Major Update!
Hi everyone, I've made a big update to the game: New trinket: Shaqaalian Bracers of Might - deal more damage, stun and crit damage based on your current health. New trinket: Experimental Orbital Engine - collect random objects around you, shielding you and dealing damage to enemi
Hi everyone, I've made a big update to the game:

New trinket: Shaqaalian Bracers of Might - deal more damage, stun and crit damage based on your current health.
New trinket: Experimental Orbital Engine - collect random objects around you, shielding you and dealing damage to enemies around you!
New, extended area in the Kanel Woodlands Sekkian Hive
New, extended area and design changes in the Infinite Expanse
Trinket balance changes - Mainly buffed the Tidal Charm trinket's range and damage.
Fixed are issue where respawning to a save would put you in the wrong map.
You can no longer equip trinkets during a boss - Feeling a requirement to switching trinkets to optimize a boss felt bad, so now it's no longer possible.
Happy exploring and I can't thank you enough for playing Roah! Other updates:

Novice-only platforms - platforms will appear in the world, helping with some of the harder platforming segments.
New visual bar at the final boss - you can now visually see the progress of the laser and vulnerable phase and not just by the music.
No longer gains gems fighting bosses while flawless crystal is active.
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25 Jan 2020Developer post
Roah Patch 25-01-2020
Hi everyone. Made some new items and fixes to Roah. New consumable: The Status Healer! Remove all statuses such as fire, poison, ice and heals you for a small amount. New trinket: The Toxic Moss! It makes you heal based on the poison energy you spend, as well as boosting the rege
Hi everyone. Made some new items and fixes to Roah.

New consumable: The Status Healer! Remove all statuses such as fire, poison, ice and heals you for a small amount.
New trinket: The Toxic Moss! It makes you heal based on the poison energy you spend, as well as boosting the regeneration of poison energy. Obtain it somewhere in the woodlands.
New graphic for breaking and reducing enemy and boss armor.
Made it so new savepoints make previous savepoints replenish to max charges.
Made getting up from a knockdown a little easier.
Made a Roah symbol on the map to show which area you're in.
More smaller terrain and bug fixes.
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07 Dec 2019Developer post
Roah's Launch
... didn't go as expected. The game had issues that impacted the experience in a bad way. The game wasn't ready to be released to thousands of players. And we're sorry. From recent feedback we've heard the game is smooth , and it's only going to improve further with player feedba
14 Nov 2019Developer post
Official Roah Discord!
I've made an official roah discord where you can discuss/ask me about the game. I've posted a couple of screenshots so far. It's an easy way to get in touch with the players. The game's now 15 days away! Discord link:
21 Mar 2019Developer post
Roah Kickstarter: 40 hours left!
WHAT'S up guys, SOLGRYN here. I just wanted to let you all know the Roah Kickstarter is successful! There's only 40 hours left for the Kickstarter and we're trying to hit the stretch goals ' v'. You can get rewards like unique pixel-perlers, keychains, signed poster art and stuff
26 Jan 2019Developer post
Steam page launched!
Hi fellow gamers. The Roah steam page has finally launched. It was a bit delayed because I really wanted to perfect the cover art and art for the steam assets like trading cards. If you didn't know there's a Kickstarter for Roah: Can't wait for the game to be released and for you

Updates & announcements

Wings of Vi 2: Guardian's Heart

Guardian’s Heart – The Story

The Sequel – Fluid, Accessible, Transformable