It Stares Back

It Stares Back invites you into the Great Tapestry, once a candy-colored realm of dreams and fantasy, now a corrupted death-scape of perilous ruin. You play the Noble Guide, a fabled commander with the power to conjure lost spirits that might join your undead army. Explore the Four Kingdoms to discover new heroes, armor, soldiers, and structures for your campaign to restore the Tapestry.

The game weaves RPG mechanics into a 4X hex-based real-time strategy framework. Gaze over the battlefield as Hex, the mechanical owl. Explore by sending the Noble Guide to light spires scattered across the map, revealing troop resources to exploit. Expand carefully across each region (the void is unforgiving). Exterminate beasts in the Clamoring Mist as they stand between you and the Rites of Awakening.

Death is a welcome friend: soldiers revive in collected dying pools, giving you wave after massive wave of undead to hurl at opponents. Currently in Early Access with regular developer updates to the Dreams of the Makers map region, the project ships hand-painted lore-rich illustration alongside the strategic depth.