Lumen Nati
Arena Champion
Seven and a half feet of plated ceramic-steel with a hard-light visor. You.
The Game
An arena-shooter Souls hybrid, in armour
Lord of the Halo fuses fast arena shooting with melee timing, dodge-rolls and class abilities. Equip a blade, a bow or raw elemental power and fight across a dozen modes.
Three Combat Styles
Cycle melee, ranged and elemental projectiles on the fly. Light/heavy combos, charged bows and seven elements.
Souls-like Defence
Stamina, guarding, parries and i-frame dodge-rolls reward precise, deliberate play.
Nine RPG Classes
From a teleporting Witch to a snowballing Vampire Necromancer, each plays nothing alike.
Play Your Way
A co-op campaign, a dozen arena modes, and a Forge editor to build your own. Online, LAN or split-screen.
Campaign · Solo & Co-op
Ten chapters out of the dark
A story campaign built on the same combat core as the arena: play it alone, drop a friend in online, or share the couch in split-screen.
“Out of the Dark”
The dungeon rebuilds itself every time you die
Lumen Nati has been fighting his way through a living dungeon for years, and by now he does it for fun. It breathes. It changes. Every death puts him back on the wheel somewhere new, and he has never once thought to ask why.
Then something small and bright turns up with a question he cannot answer, and the way out stops being a corridor and starts being a problem. Ten chapters, a growing party, and a world that is a great deal more managed than it looks.
10 chapters
Drop-in co-op
Split-screen
Checkpoints & saves
The Ladder
Chapters
The first four are open. The rest are kept dark on purpose.
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01
Awakening
Fight up out of a dungeon that has never had a way out, and meet the person who says it does.
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02
Antimimon Pneuma the counterfeit spirit
A Nordic village under a sky it cannot leave, a god it has always trusted, and a first honest brawl that teaches you the fundamentals.
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03
Heimarmene fate
Out to the druids, deep into the old war, and a hunter you do not get to see coming. You stop being the predator.
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04
Epithymia desire
A factory city that eats its workers, a dwarf worth breaking out, and a duel against something that will not stay dead in one shape.
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Samael the blind god
The midpoint. A righteous man, and a mirror you will not enjoy.
- 06
Hyle matter
Spirit drowned in flesh.
- 07
Horos the limit
Siege, emplacements, and a builder of walls.
- 08
Inferno
A hell that is not real, which does not make it hurt less.
- 09
The One
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- 10
Gnosis
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The Party
You do not walk it alone
The roster grows chapter by chapter. These are the ones you meet early.
Nanshe Nunki
Witch · Companion
A star-veiled fairy who can take a human form, and who knows exactly what the dungeon is.
Nuke
Dragon
Transport, artillery, and the reason some chapters open from the air.
Ford Centry and a Half
Clydesdale
Lumen’s horse. Later, the mount for a rather ill-advised dwarven ballista.
Kara
Barbarian · Chief
Valkyrie and head of the sealed village, who built her whole fighting style out of a legend.
Durn Stonebinder
Dwarven Forge-Lord
Turrets, ballistae and siege engines. Everything he makes is overbuilt and slightly on fire.
Where the campaign is right now
Playable end to end
A mission runs start to finish, on a generated dungeon, with objectives and a debrief.
Saves, slots and checkpoints
New game, save slots, on-screen checkpoints, and a resume that puts the party back where it was.
Dialog system
Authored cue resources, a sequencing queue and the in-world dialog box.
Enemy AI
Ranged and melee behaviour tracks both complete: telegraphed swings, poise, shields, guard breaks, parries, backstabs and crowd spacing.
Mission chaining
Chapters link and unlock. Three of six objective types are live; the rest are next.
Co-op across a real network
Built and tested locally. The two-machine pass is the current job.
Follow the devlog for the blow-by-blow.
Game Modes
One arena, many wars
Twelve-plus modes share one combat core: competitive PvP, round-based objectives and cooperative PvE.
Arena
Deathmatch
Free-for-all carnage. Every weapon allowed, first to the kill limit wins.
Arena
Team Deathmatch
Red versus Blue. Auto-balanced teams race to fifty kills.
Arena
Precision
No shields, marksman rules. Headshots are one-shot kills, so every angle is lethal.
Objective
Capture the Flag
Two-flag CTF. Steal theirs while yours stays home to score.
Objective
One-Flag
Round-based assault on a single flag. Attack and defence swap each round.
Arena
Relic Hold
Grab the skull and survive. The carrier is melee-only: hold to win.
Arena
Plague
One alpha turns survivors into the horde. Last survivor standing wins.
Signature
RPG
Class-based free-for-all: lock in one of nine classes and fight to 25 kills.
Arena
Element Ball
Elemental dodgeball. Cycle fire, water, ice, earth and air. Last team alive wins the round.
Objective
Assault
Carry the bomb, plant it, defend the timer, or defuse before it blows.
Objective
Hostage Rescue
Escort the hostage to extraction while defenders hold the line.
Co-op
Crystal Defense
Wave survival. Defend the crystal together against escalating enemy waves.
Co-op
Hero Line Wars
Dual-lane economy battle: buy creeps, build income, drain the enemy's lives.
Signature Mode
RPG
The heart of Lord of the Halo. Lock in a class, then fight a free-for-all to the top, no two fighters built the same.
Before the match begins, every fighter locks in one of nine RPG classes. There are no neutral loadouts here: your class is your identity, your arsenal and your win condition. A teleporting Witch plays nothing like a snowballing Vampire Necromancer or a parrying Souls Knight.
- Nine distinct classes
Each with its own stats, weapons, abilities and signature colour. See the full roster below.
- Class-aware kill feed
Every clash is called out by class, so you always know who beat whom, and with what.
- Snowball mechanics
Classes like the Vampire Necromancer grow with every kill: damage, speed and lifesteal stack as you dominate.
- Pure free-for-all
No teams, no mercy. First to the kill limit, or the highest count at the buzzer, is crowned Lord of the arena.
The Roster
Nine ways to fight
Each class owns a distinct loadout, ability kit and stat profile, with a female and male hero to play it. Click any card to dive in. View the full roster →
Elemental Caster
Mage
- Charged Fire Laser
- Blinding Flashbang
- Mounted Horse Boost
Elemental Caster
Mage
- Charged Fire Laser
- Blinding Flashbang
- Mounted Horse Boost
Glass Cannon
Witch
- Highest projectile damage
- Blink Teleport
- Fuel-based Flight
Snowball Assassin
Vampire Necromancer
- Lifesteal Blood Feast
- Summon Undead pair
- Bat-form flight & kill-scaling
Frontline Brawler
Barbarian
- Damage-reducing War Cry
- Leap Slam gap-closer
- Spinning Wind Wheel
Frontline Brawler
Barbarian
- Damage-reducing War Cry
- Leap Slam gap-closer
- Spinning Wind Wheel
Skill Duelist
Souls Knight
- I-frame Dodge Roll
- Guard & Parry stun
- Field Rest & regen
Skill Duelist
Souls Knight
- I-frame Dodge Roll
- Guard & Parry stun
- Field Rest & regen
Guardian / Support
Paladin
- Highest health pool
- Self-healing Bubble
- Heavy two-handed Hammer
Guardian / Support
Paladin
- Highest health pool
- Self-healing Bubble
- Heavy two-handed Hammer
Stealth Hybrid
Ranger
- Bow & blade in one kit
- Active & shadow Stealth
- Silent footsteps
Stealth Hybrid
Ranger
- Bow & blade in one kit
- Active & shadow Stealth
- Silent footsteps
Ranged Speedster
Demon Hunter
- Fastest on the field
- Rapid-Fire dual crossbows
- Pure kite playstyle
Ranged Speedster
Demon Hunter
- Fastest on the field
- Rapid-Fire dual crossbows
- Pure kite playstyle
Nature Warden
Druid
- Wildgrowth nature bolts
- Entangling Roots snare
- Regrowth party heal
The Default Champion
Meet Lumen Nati
Lock in a class for RPG mode, but in every other game mode, everyone fights as one hero.
Arena Champion · “Born of Light”
Lumen Nati
Half legend, half machine: a Master Chief reimagined as a medieval knight. Clad in plated ceramic-steel beneath a crested helm and a hard-light visor, he carries a custom-forged arsenal into the Arena. Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag: in every mode outside RPG, you play as Lumen Nati.
Make him your own in the full colours of Halo. Armour, energy shields and banners all take your chosen hue:
Default in all non-RPG modes
Custom-forged arsenal
Full colour customisation
Battlegrounds
Arenas worth dying for
Hand-built symmetric and asymmetric arenas, each tuned for a roster of modes.
Symmetric
Stonebrook
Asymmetric
Sanctum
Symmetric
Frostvault
Assault
Highkeep
Large
The Dunes
Symmetric
Proving Grounds
Large
Hallowvale
Coastal
Tidewall
Small
Blackfrost
Map Editor Experimental
Build the arena, then fight in it
Forge is an in-game editor that runs inside the game itself. Fly out of your body, build, save, and load straight back in with your friends.
Third door on the menu
Pick any shipped battleground as your canvas, then place blocks, cover, spawn points, flag stands and objective markers on top of it. Snap to a grid you can resize on the fly, nudge pieces with in-world handles, and undo your way back out of any mistake.
Press a key and you drop back into your own body to test the jump you just built, then pop straight back out to move it two metres left.
Grey-box palette
A dozen building blocks and two dozen gameplay markers, browsable and filterable.
Snapping that behaves
Grid and angle snapping with cycleable step sizes, and surface-aware placement so pieces sit flush.
Undo / redo
Bounded history over every place, move, rotate and delete.
Hop in and test
Switch between the build camera and your character without leaving the session.
Save and publish
Your maps appear in map select with their own badge, and any compatible mode will run on them.
Friends get your map
The host streams the layout to everyone who joins, so the whole lobby stands on the same geometry.
Controls as built
- WASDFly
- SpaceUp
- CtrlDown
- ShiftBoost
- LMBPlace / drag
- RMBDelete
- ESelect
- CPiece browser
- WheelCycle piece
- ,.Rotate
- []Grid size
- ZYUndo / redo
- BBack to your body
- CtrlSSave
- F1Hide overlay
Why it ships marked experimental
Forge is real and playable, and we would rather you had it early than polished. Here is exactly what it cannot do yet:
- No scaling, duplicating or multi-select. Rotation is yaw only.
- No co-op editing: you cannot yet join someone else’s live build session.
- The piece browser lists names, not thumbnails.
- Map sharing works, but has only been proven on one machine so far.
Every one of those is on the board. The badge comes off when they close.
Multiplayer
However you want to play
- Online
Drop-in matchmaking and friend lobbies over the internet.
- LAN
Low-latency local network play for couches and tournaments.
- WebRTC
Peer-to-peer connectivity with no dedicated server required.
- Split-screen
Shared-screen co-op and versus on a single machine.
At a glance
Campaign chapters10
Game modes12+
Playable classes8
Elements7 + special
Arenas9 + Forge
Bots & AI squadsYes
EngineGodot
PlatformPC
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