Player reviews: 84% positive73 reviews
Steam Deck: Playable
Runs on: Windows
Price: US$12.99

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2026 · Andrei Fomin · Adventure · Indie

Effulgence RPG

Effulgence is a party-based RPG in a sci-fi setting. Players will explore a distant, possibly extinct world, battle its hostile inhabitants, craft gear, and develop their characters. All graphics in Effulgence are made of text symbols, making it visually unique.

Released: 10 September 2026
Platforms: Windows
Genres: Adventure Indie Arcade
Developers: Andrei Fomin
Publishers: Andrei Fomin
Modes: Single-player
Perspective: Side view
Themes: Science fiction
Engine: Unity
Languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian and 2 more
Features: Family Sharing Full controller support Single-player Stats Steam Cloud Steam achievements Steam trading cards

›Story

It's easy to transmit a video signal when you're just the distance of a satellite away. If you go beyond the solar system, it may take hours to send a regular image to Earth.

But when the signal comes from a galaxy a million light-years away, only fragments of symbols make it to us. Sometimes, they can be decoded and assembled into an animation made from text characters.

This is the story of a strange world. It may no longer exist, as the signal has traveled for a million years. Or perhaps it not only exists, but is preparing an attack?