About Project: Enu

Enu is an innovative metroidvania game that reframes the genre with its unique core mechanic, loot-driven character progression, and a captivating, original universe. Enu introduces a never-before-seen gameplay mechanic that challenges traditional conventions and offers players a fresh and immersive experience all while retaining the traditional metroidvania appeal.

Set in a meticulously crafted world, Enu combines exploration, combat, and strategic character development through a dynamic loot system. Players will discover powerful gear, abilities, and upgrades that shape their journey, ensuring a highly personalized and replayable adventure.

With its distinctive blend of creativity, depth, and a richly imagined setting, Enu aims to become a groundbreaking addition to the metroidvania genre.

Gameplay

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Core Mechanic: Rotation

In Enu the world rotates around you!

Step into the future of metroidvania with Enu, a game that turns traditional exploration on its head – literally. At the heart of Enu lies its rotation mechanic, where the environment shifts around you, allowing seamless traversal across walls, ceilings, and floors. Forget walking on the ground – Enu invites you to redefine gravity and experience platforming in an entirely new dimension.

Loot-driven Character Progression

In Enu, your weapons are more than just tools – they’re extensions of your playstyle. Discover and upgrade a diverse array of weapons, each featuring unique active abilities that can be enhanced and tailored to your preferences. As you progress, unlock powerful upgrades to refine and evolve these skills, transforming them to suit your strategy. Whether you prefer raw power, tactical precision, or creative problem-solving, Enu empowers you to shape your arsenal into a perfect reflection of your vision.

Narrative

Two Worlds – The Aetherveil and the Ephemeral World

The Aetherveil is an eternal realm – the first domain to ever exist and the place the game will take place in. It’s a world where dreams manifest in their purest, most tangible form, known as Aethersilk. This mystical realm is home to the Veilkin, Nethershades, and countless other enigmatic beings who are foreign to the concept of a natural death. The Aetherveil is a place of boundless creativity and power, but also of great responsibility.

The Ephemeral World, home to the Somnials, was born from a dream about mortality by one of those enigmatic beings whichs name is now long forgotten. With that dream also the Veilkin were born – binding their existence to the fleeting realm, tasked with its protection and expansion.

Two Factions – Veilkin and Nethershades

You will take on the role of a Veilkin – an ancient race that draws great power from their Aetherheart, a bond to a mortal being in the Ephemeral World called a Somnial. This bond is created the moment a Somnial experiences their first dream. The Veilkin’s sacred purpose is to shape their Somnials‘ aspirations into reality, nurturing and expanding life in the mortal world.

Dreamwardens: Every Veilkin begins their existence as a Dreamwarden, tasked with ensuring that their Somnials‘ dreams are realized. When a Somnial dies, the Veilkin loses their Aetherheart and becomes unbound from their charge. Most then transition into the role of Runeweavers, continuing to support the sacred cause.

Runeweavers: The Veilkin’s power is derived from the ancient arts of Runeweaving, discovered by the first of their kind. Aetherrunes hold the raw, immense power of the Aetherveil. The first Veilkin discovered how to use Aethersilk to harness its energy, imbuing their Aetherheart with the unique and powerful abilities of Aetherrunes.

The Nethershades are the embodiment of nightmares, capable of corrupting Dreams by draining the essence of Aethersilk. Once a Dream is fully consumed, it twists into a corrupted Nethershade – a horrifying entity bound to a collective hive mind. These dreadful beings traverse the boundaries between realms, haunting the Somnials of the Ephemeral World and spreading their darkness with every touch. Their sole purpose is to impede Dreamwardens, infecting and distorting dreams before they can be brought to fruition. Driven by an insatiable hunger for power and hate for everything mortal, Nethershades seek to amplify their strength and ultimately find overpower the creator of the ephemeral world, shattering their vision of mortality.