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Hi Twenty,

We're responding to your invitation for horror demos to playtest on stream. We'd especially value your first impressions of the creature encounters, navigation and pacing in Depthmarked's opening dungeon.

The free slice contains six heroes, the first dungeon, its guardian and a completion screen. Solo needs no registration and stays playable offline.

Demo and screenshots: https://reckoningstudios.itch.io/depthmarked-demo

64-second trailer:

Public beta.demo.6 is available now, with no embargo on the public demo. Windows x64; about 1.21 GB to download and about 4 GB free for the ZIP plus extraction. This is an early demo with horror encounters, sudden sounds and rough edges.

Disclosure: the game uses AI-assisted code, visual assets and synthesized voices. The trailer includes generated story cinematics, staged development gameplay and labeled later-game previews. Its Master capture is a local test with AI adventurers. The later campaign is outside the demo.

If it fits your coverage, we'd welcome your independent first impressions. This is a request for free consideration; no positive review or paid placement is requested.

Reckoning Studios

We're Reckoning Studios, and we've opened the first dungeon of Depthmarked: The Hunt Below for playtesting. Choose one of six adventurers and explore solo, or bring a group for Hunted: two or three adventurers against one human Dungeon Master. We're looking for 100 people to try the demo and share what works.

Play the free demo: Play the free Windows demo on itch.io

The demo includes the opening dungeon and its guardian. Solo stays playable offline and needs no registration. Guest online play needs no email/password, but has only eight rooms/32 connected players; arrange a group or use solo if no match is ready. Windows x64; about 1.21 GB to download and about 4 GB free to extract.

After trying it, what made you tense, where did you lose your way, and what stopped you playing? Comments are welcome. The project page also links to our optional public GitHub feedback form; no feedback or follow is required.

Horror encounters and sudden sounds. AI-assisted code, visual assets and synthesized voices; the trailer includes generated story cinematics and clearly marked later-game previews. This is an early, limited demo.

Watch the Halloween trailer

Hero selection in the released Windows demo.