Fit check
Is In Celebration of Violence worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Action roguelike fans who want permanent death with progression between lives
- Players who enjoy discovering unexplained mechanics, secrets, and item effects
- Local groups seeking cooperative fantasy combat for up to four players
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking forgiving combat, since ordinary enemies can be deadly and failure can halt or reverse progress
- Players who prefer a clearly explained story and mechanics, since the story is sparse and many systems require discovery
- Players looking for a linear adventure instead of branching paths and repeated lives
- Players seeking a primarily social or town-focused role-playing game
Our take on In Celebration of Violence
The game departs from familiar fantasy adventures by withholding much of its explanation. Basic controls are provided, but secrets, item behavior, and wider systems must be deciphered during repeated lives, making discovery part of the challenge alongside combat.
What is In Celebration of Violence?
This fantasy combat roguelike combines exploration with permanent death.
Encounters demand careful timing for attacks, evasive moves, guarding, and counterattacks, with surroundings and foes shaping each decision. Randomly formed regions link grasslands, wetlands, urban areas, and underground stages, offering branching journeys toward several end bosses. Fire, electrical energy, heat, climate, water, and burnable scenery affect one another. Shrines grant gifts, enhancements, or equipment, but each deity sets its own cost and may react negatively to certain choices.
Weapons, magic, objects, and keepsakes alter possibilities from one life to the next. Experience, plans, slain bosses, characters, gear, and perks carry progress forward. Controls are introduced, while many systems and secrets require investigation. Four local players may control monsters, undead creatures, or outlaws alongside the hero.
How In Celebration of Violence plays
- 01Deliberate Combat
- Attacks, dodges, blocks, and parries must be planned around opponents and the environment.
- 02Branching World
- Procedurally generated plains, swamps, cities, and dungeons offer several routes toward final bosses.
- 03Reactive Elements
- Fire and electricity interact with temperature, weather, flammable objects, entities, and water.
- 04Persistent Progression
- Experience, schematics, defeated bosses, characters, items, and bonuses affect later lives.
- 05Local Multiplayer
- Up to four local players can assist the hero as monsters, zombies, or bandits.
- 06Gameplay Mementos
- Mementos found during play can alter rules or grant effects in subsequent lives.
In Celebration of Violence compared to similar games
Vagante is another dark-fantasy adventure involving dangerous lands, monsters, demons, and crooks. In Celebration of Violence instead emphasizes deliberate attacks, blocks, parries, environmental interactions, shrines, mementos, and progression across repeated lives. Ghost of a Tale focuses on stealth, disguises, conversations, and exploration as a mouse in an animal-populated medieval world, while In Celebration of Violence centers on combat, branching routes, final bosses, and local multiplayer.
In Celebration of Violence: platforms & release
Is In Celebration of Violence worth it?
It is worth it if: action roguelike fans who want permanent death with progression between lives. Skip it if: players seeking forgiving combat, since ordinary enemies can be deadly and failure can halt or reverse progress.
Where can I download In Celebration of Violence?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens In Celebration of Violence's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is In Celebration of Violence on?
Windows, macOS and Linux.
