Darkest Path

First-person roguelite combining timed melee with fork events that corrupt or retune the build.

How a run starts

A run moves through forked rooms. At a fork you pick an event: a blood altar, a gambler, a corruptor, or a refiner.

What you do

Fights ask you to time swings and a guard, then spend active skills tied to fire, blood, holy, or lightning.

What carries over

Permadeath is tagged. The page says a choice can strengthen, corrupt, or reroute the run, and it does not list a hub shop.

Pick this if

• You want the route to be a sequence of named risk rooms, not a single arena.
• You like elemental skills that can be twisted by the room you just took.

Skip this if

• No bonfire, stamina bar, or corpse run is described, despite the souls-like tag.