In a land overrun by tyrannical kings, you must battle their armies and seize their crowns. Choose your dwarven hero carefully, for each level challenges their unique abilities. Fletcher has a long-ranged crossbow, Ash can lob powerful bombs, and Brutus has an axe to cleave foes at close range. Should a hero fall, their fate rests on your ability to slay the king, retrieve the key, and unlock their treasure chest. Fail, and they are lost forever

Keyboard Controls

• WASD (or arrow keys) - movement
• Press Space (or LMB) - shoot

• Shift+R - restart whole game
• F - full screen
• Enter - skip cutscene

Gamepad Controls

• D-Pad - movement
• Press A or B - shoot

• L1+R1 - menu
• Start - skip cutscene

CREDITS

Design & Development 

• GameFavorites

Font

• GameFavorites

Artwork

• Elthen's Pixel Art Shop from itch.io - characters and tileset
• GameFavorites - Go text and splash animation
• Ideogram.ai - title page

Music from itch.io

• Juhani Junkala

Sounds from freesound.org

• justinvoke - arrow hit
• matrixxx - Goblin King eating
• minian89 - rat enemy run over by cart
• under7dude - Goblin King death
• unfa - dwarf death in cutscene
• qubodup - boar grunt

Sounds from itch.io

• (Not a Placeholder) Free Sounds Pack - treasure chest locked rattle and opening, bomb explosion, player death, menu interface, arrow hit rocks, orc noise, title confirm, Goblin King landing, water splash and whoosh of arrows

I also used a text to speech service from luvvoice.com for the voices

Recommendations

Click on the bottom right corner to play in FULL SCREEN

If the game is unresponsive, CLICK INSIDE THE GAME WINDOW

Development Details

This game was made using Construct 3 and it was made for GDKO 2025 - Round 3

Task: Recreate the classic game - Gain Ground