A run through the pyramid

A run, in the publisher's announcement, starts when the heroes wake inside the pyramid. The Steam page calls the same place a shifting labyrinth of ruins, kingdoms, and occult halls, with bosses guarding every layer. Layers and rooms change, so the path is not a campaign you memorize once. The announcement says the pyramid changes with every descent. The Steam page says you carve a path through an ever-changing labyrinth. That is the promise. It is not a map.

What a demo run looked like

The press demo described room-by-room choices. Doors paid out differently: gold toward a merchant, a totem for a Combat Mastery, or an artifact room. Difficulty climbed as the demo moved through eras, with swamps, a Pictish wilderness, and a medieval village named by the writer. A store screenshot of a flooded hollow with a stone doorway and small green creatures is the public image that matches a swamp. The era names beyond that are the article's, not labels burned into the screenshot. Two mini-bosses and a final boss closed a floor in that demo. Read bosses before you treat the count as a patch note. The studio said in the same interview that repeating the same mini-bosses is the current plan for the playtest, and that randomizing them is still a debate.

How long, and what you keep

A line in that Q&A offered 20 to 30 minutes as an example of a short clear. It was an illustration while talking about pacing, not a boxed timer. Do not quote it as the official run length. What you keep is the permanent half: hero levels and Wakestones. What the demo said you lose is the artifact stack. Dice sit in between, and their persistence is unconfirmed. Dying back to a hub was implied by the between-run Nexus talk. The store does not name the hub. See locations.

How to enter one before release

You cannot, unless a playtest wave includes you. Wishlisting does not start a run. When a wave does, the useful first-run plan is on the beginner guide: one Memory, parry before greed, dice spent only when the weapon is the problem. Co-op can share the run and should not share the pocket.

Verdict: Expect a changing, room-based climb with a boss at the end of a layer, permanent progress outside the run, and a loadout that resets. Treat era names and the 20-to-30-minute example as demo color, not as store facts.

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