ProtoDungeon: Episode III

You fall into the Third Nightmare with nothing. Beneath a shriveled lotus tree there is a leaf, and the leaf teaches you to jump. Around you: a cove, a wrecked ship, a handful of frightened villagers, and a chapel you can see but cannot reach.

The Cove and its Residents

• A small, interconnected world with no map, no waypoints, and no objective log... you learn it by walking it.
• A few people are still here, holding on. Helping them won't put everything right, but it isn't nothing.
• Every path you can't take yet is a path you'll want to remember later.

The Magic Leaf and What it Opens

• Three abilities - jump, swim, dash - each one unlocking the cove further.
• Flip the cove between day and night, but only at the strange monument that allows it... so reaching it is a puzzle of its own.
• Night opens paths the day won't. It also turns the pirates in the wreck from men into monsters.
• Places you walked past in the first ten minutes become the way forward in the last.

Routes, not Fights

• Almost nothing here can be killed. Enemies are read, timed, and slipped past. This is a game about exploration, not fighting.
• Keep on the lookout for a slime that flips its spikes up each time it bounces; a mud statue that screams you off your feet; something in the water with too many eyes; and more.

No prior episodes required! Episode III stands on its own. It's finishable in an evening, but some of what's worth having is hidden off the beaten path.