- January 20, 2026
- Dominic Bolin
- 10h median play time
Crucible of the Forgotten
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About Crucible of the Forgotten
Crucible of the Forgotten is a single player and multiplayer role playing shooter game with fantasy and dark fantasy themes. It was developed by Dominic Bolin and was released on January 20, 2026. It received overwhelmingly positive reviews from players.
Overcome a series of challenging stages in this roguelite horde survival game by developing your power with spells across many different dimensions, including items, upgrades, talents, and more that interact with each other to produce many unique and powerful builds. SURVIVE, EXPLORE, and ASCEND TO POWER Crucible of the Forgotten combines the moment-to-moment tactical gameplay of horde survival…
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- Extensive build depth with many options, combos, and synergies, providing a lot of replayability and strategic variety.
- Challenging and well-balanced difficulty that rewards player skill, positioning, and thoughtful buildcrafting rather than relying on luck or overpowered builds.
- Active and responsive developer regularly updates the game, listens to feedback, and adds new content, enhancing the experience over time.
- Some UI and UX issues, including unclear mechanics explanations, overwhelming level-up menus especially in co-op, and lack of manual aiming options.
- RNG can feel punishing, causing some runs to be frustrating or feel like wasted time if ideal rolls or aspects aren't obtained early.
- Graphics and level variety are considered lackluster or repetitive by some, with early biomes feeling visually similar and certain visual effects being unclear or distracting.
gameplay
8 mentions Positive Neutral NegativeThe gameplay offers impressive build variety, deep mechanics, and significant difficulty scaling, providing a rewarding experience once learned. However, some mechanics lack clarity and explanations, making the learning curve steep and occasionally confusing. Overall, the depth and unique features make for engaging and satisfying gameplay after investing time to understand its systems.
“Tons of build variety, secrets, different mechanics, and a lot more going on under the hood than I expected when I first started playing.”
“Amazing build depth, tons of secrets, huge difficulty scaling, interesting and unique mechanics that I've never seen in another survivor-like game.”
“Game is pretty difficult and needs some time to get into and understand all the niche mechanics the game provides, but after you get into it, it's incredibly fun building a literal god character.”
“Suggestions: would like to see mechanics explained in more depth (aspects, some of the modifiers and how they interact, etc.).”
“The only annoying thing is no clarity on boss damage reduction; there is some hidden mechanic that reduces damage they take the more damage you do, so scaling ultra hard damage is less effective versus more survivability.”
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Crucible of the Forgotten is a role playing shooter game with fantasy and dark fantasy themes. Common tags for Crucible of the Forgotten include indie, roguelite, 2d, magic, atmospheric and others.
Crucible of the Forgotten is available on PC, Steam Deck and Windows.
On average players spend around 10 hours playing Crucible of the Forgotten.
Crucible of the Forgotten was released on January 20, 2026.
Crucible of the Forgotten was developed by Dominic Bolin.
Crucible of the Forgotten has received overwhelmingly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Crucible of the Forgotten for its replayability but disliked it for its gameplay.
Crucible of the Forgotten is a single player game with multiplayer and local co-op support.
Similar games include Tower of Babel: Survivors of Chaos, Jotunnslayer Hordes of Hel, The Spell Brigade, Artifact Seeker: Resurrection, Death Must Die and others.