Lily the Philosopher

After suffering a prolonged disease, a girl named Lily dies and meets the False Light of the Great Devourer. Somehow something awakens within her and she is able to perceive the never-seen horror at the last moment. She runs away and stumbles upon Amok who reveals her that she is in the Imaginary World. Reluctantly, Amok agrees to help her escape the Cycle of Devouring and to teach her magic and to follow her through her own hell.

FEATURES

• A story-driven gameplay featuring a full campaign as well as the possibility to fight bosses at any time on any difficulty without replaying the whole campaign from the beginning
• Each boss has a unique bullet pattern reflecting its goals and meaning
• Four levels of difficulty:
  • Catatonia, Abnormal, Paranoia, Revelations
• A set of four spells including a special ability:
  • Lightning spell to inflict damage to multiple targets within a small radius
  • Drain Soul spell to consume the soul splits of all enemies on the battlefield
  • Astral Flow spell to deal a direct damage through the generation of many stars
  • Howling to destroy all presented enemy bullets
• The ability to place portals and walk through them
• A system of runic inscriptions to modify the behaviour of the spells (not in demo atm)

Demo is currently available for both Linux based distributions and Windows (tested in wine).

The game has only been tested on 1920x1080 resolution settings. The cursor might be broken for others.

The current controls are (can be rebind in "data/binds.json")

• q - lightning spell;
• w - soul drain spell;
• e - astral spell;
• x - howl;
• LSHIFT - slow down;
• a - place portal A
• s - place portal B
• d - use portal
• q - quit
• arrows - control movements / navigate in the menu
• escape / return - navigate in the menu

• YouTube
• IG
• Tiktok
• Twitter

Do you like the project? Consider a donation. Either through itch.io or crypto. Your support is very much appreciated!

ETH: 0x982D0F2A080a6FC841a82dDb3Ac97B27C3F8Dd6c

XMR: 82ooAboYCZfU4gcgjPDWbg1cBAubnqAgAQuL5faS3m8wNLqrQD3iKP46uEGuzq1Yvvhn6ojpQqML5RLRtA5MPCg6L3NpQta