Summum Aeterna is a Roguelite game that combines world crawler mechanics with fast-paced combat and a unique 2D art style. Taking the role of the King of Darkness, you'll explore uncharted territories populated with treasures, traps, hordes of enemies, and powerful bosses.
Day One content
Let's take a look at what is included in the first version of the game currently available on Steam:
- 2 worlds featuring 2 different areas each
- 2 final bosses
- 1 special room… The Death Roulette! Featuring a mechanic that makes your run even more interesting… Would you spin it? Be careful, it could curse your game or make you unstoppable!
- 3 weapon types: swords, scythes, and pistols
- 21 unique weapons, each one with different offensive and passive attributes
- Introduction to the Seed Mechanic, a unique world generator system: Each seed you find generates a unique world with different enemy behaviour, rewards, special rooms, and map size depending on its genes and rareness.
- More than 20 unique world modifiers: The so-called “seed genes” make each seed different from the last, and so will the world generated from them!
- Permanent character upgrade system: No matter how many times you’re defeated, your progression in the skill tree will be saved!
- Permanent world upgrade system: The world improvements you unlocked will last forever, even if you are defeated a hundred times!
- Weapon customization options: Add new attributes and improve the combat performance of your weapons by embedding gems
- More than 15 epic music themes
Everything mentioned above is already included in the current playable version of Summum Aeterna. We rely on the community feedback to improve the gaming experience. We are willing to include new features based on our player base opinions as well. Feel free to send us your suggestions and share your thoughts!
Project timeline
Summum Aeterna is scheduled to be in early access for a year and a half, so the full version will be ready at some point in 2024, but there’s no specific end date. However, all main updates for the next months are already scheduled, and the content for the first half of 2023 is almost planned.
Future content scope
Now that the first version is available, let’s take a look at the future content. Right now we have 4 major upgrades to cover the game progression until the end of 2022. Small patches could also be released between each main update to solve possible bugs or expand the customization possibilities.
This is the roadmap of our first cycle in Early Access:
Major Update 1 - July
- 1 new challenge room that will offer a true combat challenge only recommended for the most skilled players… The Shrines of Idalith!
- 3 minibosses
- 3 new weapons: Mantis Claw (scythe), Jade Katana (sword), and Taser Gun (pistol)
- 2 new NPCs: Rasen Lupine and the Dummy
- 1 new seed type: Chance of Worlds
- New lethal genes
- More gems
- Many more surprises!
Major Update 2 – August
- 1 new world (2 currently) including 2 different areas (4 currently)
- 1 new final boss (2 currently)
- More genes to modify and alter the worlds
Major Update 3 - September
- 1 new world (3 currently) including 2 different areas (6 currently)
- 1 new final boss (3 currently)
- 1 new weapon type (3 currently)
- 8 unique weapons, each one with different offensive and passive features (24 currently)
Major Update 4 – October / November
- 1 new seed type… Exotics Seeds! They will teleport you to a unique world including exclusive features. Would you survive?
- 1 new type of world including a certain challenge to overcome
- Inclusion of legendary weapons, allowing access to more than 30 unique tools of destruction!
What will come after Major Upgrade 4?
- We will add more types of special rooms, and some of them will include new upgrade mechanics
- Expect more unique variants for each weapon type
- More worlds are also on our radar
- New gems will be added
- More available options in the skill and world tree
- All the good ideas provided by the community to make Summum Aeterna even more fun!
We will update the roadmap and the next content scope in early 2023. Thank you so much for your constant support! We rely on you to make Summum Aeterna an epic experience.