The Devil Keeps Count
The devil has been let loose in a small mountain village where no one dares approach the peak. Unleash chaos in a physics-based arcade sandbox!
In this game, you control a demon with various powers, invisible to the humans running around underneath its ancestral home. There are 4 types of humans - Jesters, Clerics, Knights and Fishermen, each with their own behaviour and interactions. Find their weaknesses and harvest their souls!
How to Play
Control the demon by moving your mouse, and click to use your active ability. There are many in this game, each with interesting environmental effects and interactions. You start with the PUNCH and INSPECT abilities, which let you displace nearby enemies and look into their stats, respectively.
As people start dying (on their own, or with your help), you can capture their souls. Spend souls at the SHOP to unlock new abilities.
Win the game by leading/blasting/hypnotizing 7 units to the temple at the top of the hill. If the reserve unit counter (red - top-left) runs out, then you're out of luck!
Please zoom in if the game window is too small!
Music credit: Alkakrab Medieval Loops 2
Art and code made for the GMTK2026 jam in about 3 days.
There are some things I've left in that I didn't have enough time to complete. A use for gold, jester behaviour and suspicion are all partially implemented... let me know if you want to see these fully developed.
| Published | 3 days ago |
| Status | Released |
| Platforms | HTML5 |
| Author | wintrmut3 |
| Genre | Simulation |
| Tags | Arcade, Atmospheric, Comedy, Horror, Physics, Pixel Art, Sandbox |
| AI Disclosure | AI Assisted, Code |





Leave a comment
Log in with itch.io to leave a comment.