The LostwoodThe Lostwood

The Lostwood is a dark fantasy turn-based tactical roguelike. Fit skills and items into a limited loadout, read enemy intent, and defend by attacking as both sides act together. Enter a monster-haunted forest in search of a cure for the one you love. Learn skills, gather items and collectibles, and adapt your combinations to the enemies ahead. A strategy that wins one fight may fail in the next.

Beyond the solo adventure, a separate 2–8 player Steam PvP mode lets you coordinate with teammates or challenge a player-controlled Boss.

Put your strategy on autoplay

Arrange skills and items, choose their targets, add rests, and set a loop count and a safe HP threshold. Let your plan run automatically at an accelerated pace, with the option to rest when energy runs short. From alternating attacks and defense to chains of complementary effects, turn your ideas into a repeatable action sequence. A reliable loop can keep you fighting, but a new enemy may call for a new plan.

Prepare a loadout for every fight

All equipped skills and items stay visible throughout combat. Choose one to use each turn, then use it again whenever energy, cooldowns, and remaining uses allow. Save energy for later or recover it by resting. Commit to a powerful strike now, or keep enough energy for the next threat? Strengthen a single technique, or combine several effects? What you bring matters as much as when you use it.

Read their intent. Act together.

See the skill each enemy is preparing before you choose your response. Both sides commit their actions, then resolve them in the same turn. Defense and other nonattack effects take hold first; attacks are resolved together. Study enemy targets and effects to decide when to strike, protect yourself, or rest.

Defend by clashing

When you and an enemy attack each other, a Clash compares each technique’s actual energy cost plus Momentum. The lower attack fails against that opponent; a tie stops both attacks. A well-timed strike can protect you from an incoming blow. When ordinary defense cannot hold, a stronger attack may turn the encounter in your favor.

Six classes. Your combinations.

Combine Warrior techniques and Momentum, Berserker health gambits, Guardian protection, Mage chants, Alchemist healing and status effects, and Scholar control over energy and cooldowns. Items share your limited battle slots with skills and wear out with use. Collectibles provide global passive effects without taking up a slot. Find the connections between effects and build a rhythm of your own.

Find your own way through the forest

Travel between connected locations, choose your direction at a junction, or return along a path you have already cleared. Every move costs stamina, including backtracking. Shops, camps, and strange encounters offer chances to recover or reshape your build, but every detour spends resources you may need further ahead.

The deeper you travel, the closer you come to the cure—and the price behind the forest’s promises.