Kelipot

A plague turns the ancient city of Celephais into a shifting nightmare, and Prince Abel is left to search its ruins for his missing brother and any survivors who remain sane. Kelipot is a story-led action platformer that mixes brisk side-scrolling combat with roguelite repetition and a deliberately tangled tale of parallel realities. Its mood leans dark and mysterious rather than relentlessly grim, with a ruined fantasy town whose secrets unfold across alternate timelines. Every attempt pushes Abel further through a city where time, space, and cause-and-effect no longer behave as they should.

Runs center on navigating hostile, fiend-filled stages, overcoming platforming hazards, and using a broad selection of powers to survive increasingly dangerous encounters. Abel’s available abilities encourage experimentation, letting players approach challenges with different offensive and movement-oriented tools instead of relying on a single fixed build. Death is part of the structure rather than a hard stop: each fresh run offers another chance to investigate different realms, meet surviving acquaintances, and pursue clues that were unavailable or missed before. The branching narrative also ties into player decisions, so reaching the end is less about seeing one definitive finale than testing paths and uncovering several possible resolutions.

Kelipot stands out most through the way its roguelite loop serves the story. Rather than treating repeated runs as a purely mechanical grind, it frames them as journeys through versions of Celephais that can reveal new context, characters, and outcomes. The parallel-world premise gives completionists a reason to revisit areas and chase every narrative thread, while the power variety keeps the platforming action from feeling identical on each attempt. Players who enjoy the repeated-run structure of roguelites but want more authored plot than a typical score-chasing action game should find plenty to like here. It is especially suited to fans of atmospheric 2D adventures in the vein of Dead Cells, provided they are happy to replay stages in pursuit of the full truth.