Index Expressions

Outer Index

On hold

Outer Index is a top-⁠down pixel-⁠art horde game set in Alderbrook, a Victorian steampunk town with something wrong under it.

A top-down pixel-art town at night lit by small torches, with the game’s status bar across the top.
A test capture from the rebuild, taken one second into a run, with pixel-art trees and two fire bowls on open grass. Some of the readouts along the top are placeholders.

A run plays out in Alderbrook, seen from above, while enemies come at you in crowds. You grow a little stronger each time you level up.

Your sanity drains over about thirty minutes in five stages, and each stage starts with an elite wave. When your sanity runs out, something comes for you.

Every time you level up, you choose one of three cards, and those choices shape your character over the run. We’re rebuilding the game on our own engine and keeping the original tuning as we go.

How a run works

  • Sanity that drains over about thirty minutes
  • Five stages, each opening with an elite wave
  • Something that comes for you when your sanity hits zero
  • A choice of three cards at every level up
  • The original tuning, kept for the rebuild

Where it stands

Outer Index is on hold. We’ve paused the rebuild while other work comes first, and the game hasn’t been canceled.

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