Pawlosseum

Welcome to the Pawlosseum

Six elemental siblings left home for the great tower-coliseum, chasing prize money and a better life. One by one, they stopped writing. None came back.

Ziri, the youngest, is left alone with an anonymous note: your siblings are alive, but you will have to climb higher than they did to find them.

Fight your way up a tower of 100 floors, from the filthy bunks of the Pit to the golden stands of the Crown. Every bout is a show, and the stands are watching.

Duo battles, turn by turn

• Speed sets the order. Everyone acts once per round, fastest first, and the turn bar shows what comes next.

• Boost your strikes. Spend boost points to add hits or raise the power of an attack, and decide when it is worth the wait.

• Fight as a pair. Chain combo attacks with your partner: one sets up, the other finishes.

• Six elements. Lightning, fire, water, ice, earth and shadow, each with its own way to fight and its own weaknesses to exploit.

Play to the crowd

The crowd is not scenery. Cheers raise your pay and boos cut it, and the way you win matters as much as winning. Hidden feats reward skill, courage and style, and the stands grow bigger and louder the higher you climb.

A new climb every run

• Roguelite structure. Pick your path through each division and adapt to what the tower throws at you.

• Level up and build your own style. Every level-up offers three random skills: learn one, swap out one of your four slots, or pass. Perfect the ones you use most and pick up techniques to build a different team on every climb. It all lasts as long as the division does, and each run starts fresh.

• Relics with synergies. Build a run around relics that change how your team fights.

• A tower with a life of its own. Between fights, visit the rooms and markets of each floor, run errands, try your luck with bets and play small mini-games. Rank up and the whole place changes: better rooms, bigger crowds, better prizes.

• A cast of animal folk. Raccoons, pangolins, owls, peacocks, dogs and stranger creatures fill the stands, the shops and the rings.

Something is not right in the Coliseum

The tower sells the dream that anyone can become a champion. The higher you go, the more you will wonder who benefits when the crowd roars, and why your family ended up here in the first place.

Made by Dos Quiltros

Dos Quiltros takes its name from Wilo and Tyson, two rescued dogs. They have a place in the tower too: look for a certain guard dog who is far friendlier than he looks, and a messenger dog who always seems to be in a hurry.

The name? A coliseum, with paws: Pawlosseum.

Details

• Pixel-art characters in a 2.5D world.

• Languages: English and Spanish.

• Single player.