Hollow Anvil

A forge room caught mid-Shift: walls sliding at angles, amber tracks blazing as the arena reconfigures

The Pulse & The Shift

Every action you take charges the Pulse. When it fills, the room rearranges itself mid-combat — walls slide, floors drop, and the arena re-deals while you're still fighting. Learn to read it, and the chaos becomes your rhythm.

The dungeon fights back.

A Crush Wall corridor in the Sunken Forge, brass walls with glowing amber warning tracks

Trap Mastery

Gravity Wells. Collapsing Floors. Crush Walls. They kill you first — then they teach you. Bait enemies into the machinery of the Vault and watch it do your work.

The room is your arsenal.

Kestrel and Bram side by side: a fast blade-dancer in motion and a planted siege tower of a warrior

Two Archetypes

Kestrel dances — fast, fragile, always one step from the edge. Bram plants his feet and makes the room come to him. Same halls, same traps, completely different games.

A vast dark forge chamber, a single pale amber glyph-eye glowing in the deep background

The Overseer

The Vault's thousand-year-old keeper watches every run and has opinions about all of it — delivered in glyphs, judgment, and the occasional compliment you'll have to earn.

"I was alone for a thousand years. Now I have neighbors."

Break the Vault

Descend through three zones of a living megastructure built by a vanished warrior culture — four bosses, twenty relics, five upgrade trees, and a True Ending for those the Overseer deems worthy.

Zone 1

The Sunken Forge

Where the Vault still works metal. Slow, heavy, certain — like its traps.

Zone 2

The Conduit Nexus

The Vault's nervous system. Faster halls, sharper Shifts, less forgiveness.

Zone 3

The Overseer's Heart

Few have seen it. Fewer have left. The Overseer is waiting to meet you properly.

Hollow Anvil is a one-person game studio. SHIFTFORGE is our first game: an action roguelike about mastering a dungeon that refuses to hold still, built in Unreal Engine 5 with equal parts fire and determination.

We build in public. Follow development, join playtests, and tell us where it hurts.

Press & creators: hollowanvil@outlook.com · press kit available on request.