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Morrowvane is a single-player action RPG seen from a fixed isometric camera: one province, four regions walked in order, and a story with an ending that the game itself puts at about two hours. You choose one of eight classes, build it from that class's sixteen spells, their runes and a list of passives, and nothing in the build is rolled. The dice are in the loot.

GameplayThe controls on a pad and on keyboard and mouse, spells, runes, passives, the flask, blink, death and the hubs.

SettingsEvery row of the Sound, Display, Game and Controls pages, and the Language list.

From launch into the province

The title screen offers Play, Load, Achievements, Settings and Quit. Move with the left stick or D-pad and confirm with the south face button (Cross, A), or use ↑↓ and Enter, or click.
Play always starts a new journey with a save file of its own; it never continues or overwrites one. Load lists every journey you have started, newest first.
Choose your character lists the eight classes. Up and down pick a class; left and right turn the figure between the man and the woman, shown as two small portraits under Appearance. The card on the right gives the class's combat reach and damage kinds, its resource, and its four starting skills. The number keys 1–8 start a class at once.
Confirm (begin this hand) and the journey opens in the Hollow Fields, at the hub of Tallow's Cross, level 1, with the class's starting gear on. The first quest, The Road In, asks you to read the clerk's board a few steps away.

The title screen: MORROWVANE over a flooded field, with the buttons Play, Load, Achievements, Settings and Quit — The title screen. The version is printed in the bottom-right corner.

Choose your character: the eight classes on the left, the Magus standing in the middle, his card on the right with Combat, Resource and Starting skills — Choose your character, with the Magus picked. The two portraits under the figure switch between the man and the woman.

How to play

One button talks and fights. The south face button (E on the keyboard) uses whatever is in reach: a board, a letter, a counter. With nothing to use, it swings your basic attack.
Four spell slots sit on the other face buttons and the right shoulder and trigger (1–4). Each class starts with one spell per slot and learns three more for every slot by level 24; you swap and rune them in the spellbook, but only out of a fight.
Blink (East face button, Space) is a short dodge with a moment of invulnerability; the flask (left trigger, Q) heals and refills on its own over time.
Dying costs nothing you carry. You return to the last checkpoint at full life; what you killed stays dead and the rest of the fight goes home.
Walk forward. Each region has three checkpoints, the first of them its hub with a board of bounties and three counters. Its last checkpoint opens the way into the next region once the region's boss has fallen; there is no way back.

Tallow's Cross at the start of a journey: the provisioner, the clerk's board and the apothecary around the Magus, the narrator's first line in a card, the HUD around the edges — The first moment of a journey at Tallow's Cross: the narrator's opening line, the provisioner, the clerk's board and the apothecary. Life and the class's pool bottom left, the flask, the four spell slots and blink along the bottom, the quest and the minimap top right.