DRACOLACHIA

Wallachia, 1462. The Blood Moon rises.

Abbot Lucian of Snagov has broken an ancient seal and woken Zalmoxis, god-king of the Dacians. They call it the First Night. At Arefu the dead claw their way out of their graves, the village burns, and Princess Ilona is dragged into the dark.

Prince Vlad Drăculea, knight of the Order of the Dragon, rides home through fire. He doesn't know it yet, but this night will crown him.

DRACOLACHIA is a gothic action-platformer that plays like a lost 16-bit cartridge. It has weighty whip combat, creaking stairs, candles to smash, pot roast hidden in the walls, and bosses pulled straight out of Romanian folklore.

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⚔ Features

• Whip combat with weight. Strike in eight directions, let the chain dangle and steer it, swing from grapple rings, dash in and backdash out of trouble. Upgrade from leather to chain to flame chain.
• Five stages and an epilogue: blood-moon Arefu, the haunted Hoia Forest, the island monastery of Snagov, the Borgo Pass and the Citadel of Poenari.
• Bosses from legend: the Vârcolac, Muma Pădurii, the Weeping Seraph, the three-headed Balaur, the heretic Abbot Lucian, and Zalmoxis himself.
• Classic subweapons: silver dagger, war axe, holy water, blessed cross and hourglass, all powered by hearts.
• A voiced story told through illustrated cutscenes, stage cards and a map of Wallachia.
• Three languages, fully voiced: English, Arabic and Japanese. The Arabic version has its own pixel font and right-to-left menus.
• Built for keyboard and gamepad, with rebindable controls, controller vibration, a CRT filter and integer scaling.

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🎮 Controls (default)

Action	Keyboard	Gamepad
Move / aim / stairs	Arrows or WASD	D-pad / left stick
Jump	Z / Space	A (bottom)
Whip	X	X (left)
Subweapon	C (or Up + Whip)	Y (top)
Backdash	Q	LB / LT
Dash	E / V	RB / RT
Pause	Enter / Esc	Start
Fullscreen	F / F11	–

Every control can be rebound in Options.

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🖥 System requirements

• OS: Windows 10/11 (64-bit) or Linux (64-bit). Runs on Steam Deck.
• Graphics: any card with OpenGL 3.3 or DirectX 11 support.
• Storage: about 200 MB.
• Progress saves automatically.

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About AI

DRACOLACHIA was made by a solo developer using generative AI tools. The pixel art was generated with an image model, then cleaned up to native resolution and a limited palette. The music, sound effects and voices were made with AI, and the game was programmed with AI. The story, design, direction and Arabic localization are my own.

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