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Tactical Match-3 RPG • Dark Fantasy • Rune Combos

ASTREON

The Rune-Heart is dying.
The kingdom is collapsing.
One final campaign begins.


✦ The Broken Kingdom

Long ago, Astreon thrived through the power of sacred runes. Cities, sanctuaries and ancient roads drew their energy from the Rune-Heart, an ancient relic hidden beneath the kingdom itself.

The Rune-Heart was not a weapon. It was balance itself. Its pulses maintained the ancient seals, held back the horrors beneath the world and preserved harmony between the elements.

Then came the Night of Glass. The sky shattered like crystal, the seals exploded one after another, and the guardians descended into madness.

You are a Rune-Bearer, one of the last heirs capable of restoring the ancient seals, recovering the lost rune fragments and slowing the corruption consuming Astreon.

◆ Tactical Match-3 Combat

ASTREON combines the immediacy of a Match-3 board with the long-term decisions of a tactical RPG. Battles are built around preparation, resource management and the ability to read the board before committing to a move.

Swap adjacent runes, create elemental matches, generate mana and unleash powerful abilities. Large matches create bonus turns and special runes, while cascades can completely change the flow of battle.

Match skulls to deal direct damage, exploit elemental weaknesses and manipulate the board to survive corrupted enemies.

✦ Special Runes

Special runes are tactical tools. They can reshape the board, extend a combo, open a new line of attack or save a desperate turn when triggered at the right moment.

✦ Explosive Rune

Created by a match of four. When destroyed, it clears its full row and column.

! Unstable Rune

Appears naturally on the board, regularly changes nature and detonates the eight surrounding tiles when destroyed.

◆ Major Rune

A rare rune with board-wide impact. When triggered, it removes every rune of the same nature from the battlefield.

✧ Shard Rune

Created from T, L or cross-shaped matches. It breaks nearby orthogonal tiles and helps extend chain reactions.

☽ Build Your Rune-Bearer

Gain experience, level up your hero and unlock powerful active abilities. Each level gives new opportunities to shape your build and prepare for stronger enemies.

Equip up to 3 active skills and create your own style: direct damage, control, healing, barriers, mana generation or board manipulation.

Your choices matter between battles. Skills, equipment, consumables and elemental affinities all influence how you approach each fight.

✧ Progression and Campaign

Progress through corrupted regions, defeat fallen guardians and restore fragments of the Rune-Heart. Each victory pushes the campaign forward and brings Astreon closer to salvation.

The game includes campaign progression, hero development, enemy encounters, equipment, shop management and a codex filled with heroes, monsters and world archives.

‎𝄞 Original Soundtrack

The music of ASTREON was composed specifically for the game. Every track was designed to reinforce the atmosphere of corrupted ruins, ancient sanctuaries, mysterious magic and desperate battles.

Ambient exploration themes, darker fantasy melodies and intense combat music evolve throughout the campaign to accompany the fall of the kingdom.

The soundtrack is part of the identity of ASTREON and was created to support both the emotional tone of exploration and the tension of tactical combat.

❖ What the game contains

ASTREON includes tactical Match-3 battles, special runes, chain reactions, bonus turns, elemental mana, hero abilities, status effects, RPG progression, equipment, consumables, campaign levels, corrupted enemies, boss encounters, a codex and a fully original dark fantasy universe.

The experience focuses on tactical decision-making, long-term progression and creating increasingly powerful rune combinations as the campaign advances.

⚠️ Current State

ASTREON is currently in active development.

New content, balancing, visual improvements, enemies, abilities and systems are continuously being added and refined.

Feedback, suggestions and bug reports are greatly appreciated and directly help improve the project.

🕹️ Controls

Mouse only.
Drag and swap adjacent runes.
Fullscreen supported.


Solo Indie Project

Created by Jessy JONKISZ

Game Design • Programming • Art Direction • Writing • Balancing • Music Composition

Updated 17 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
AuthorDarythas
GenrePuzzle, Adventure, Role Playing, Strategy
TagsDark Fantasy, Fantasy, match-3, Singleplayer, Tactical, Turn-based
Average sessionA few minutes
LanguagesEnglish, French
InputsMouse
AccessibilitySubtitles
AI DisclosureAI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Sounds, Text

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The game looks graphically nice, as does the music and story. I'm a little sorry for the incomplete English translation. I would also appreciate better adaptation of the UI for mobile devices.

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Thank you for your feedback! We're glad you enjoyed the graphics, music, and story 😊

The full English translation is currently in progress, and we've already shared some previews of the work done so far. The shop and item descriptions will be translated once the balancing phase is finished.

We're also working on improving the mobile UI experience.

Thanks again for your support!



thats good to hear ^^