Sub Rosa vs Edge Born

A text-based LitRPG, descended from classic MUDs and rewritten for the phone in your pocket. You do not play a run. You read a book. Each book is five chapters, each chapter a place descended at four depths, and one protagonist walks all twenty of them: your level, your virtues, your health, your gear, your relics and your purse come with you from one descent to the next. There are ten books, in fantasy, pirates, sci-fi, horror and western. Every dungeon is written whole before you arrive, every room in view of the others, so what one room plants a later one pays off, and the road out of one chapter is the road into the next. The walls describe themselves. Enemies have reasons to be there. Choices in narrative rooms are not dice rolls dressed up: they shape what the dungeon becomes. Experience is earned where you earn it. Kill something or read a room truly and the numbers appear beneath the prose, in their own hand: the roll, the damage, the gold, the experience. Cross a level in a corridor and you place the point there, in the room that gave it to you. At the third level, the fifth and the seventh, the dungeon offers you a trait to keep. Chapters open in order. Clear a place at all four depths and the next one opens; lose a descent and the chapter in progress is taken back, though nothing you carried home is. What you take home from a victory is a relic or more, halved in strength but kept in memory, and every descent you finish is written into your chronicle, re-readable as prose long after the dungeon is closed. Combat is four virtues and a single die. Strike, brace, speak, study, each resolved in candlelight. Once a week, a single dungeon is drawn for everyone who dares it. Same rooms, same seed. Descend it and see where you stand: survivor, contender, ascendant, or paragon. Place well and the week pays you in coin and a trophy for your study. Earlier weeks stay on the shelf as unranked practice. (A subscriber feature.) Features - A protagonist per book who levels, learns and lasts all twenty descents - Ten books across five settings, five chapters each, four depths a chapter - Dungeons written whole, each chapter leading into the next - Callings, virtues and passive traits: a build that grows over a whole book - The chronicle: every descent you finish, kept and re-readable - Relics, gear and a purse that survive the door - The weekly ranked descent: one shared dungeon, standings, and prizes - Trials and ironman: harder descents for richer rewards - Manuscript aesthetic: dark parchment, single-candle light Subscription Sub Rosa is free to begin. Free readers open one fantasy or pirates book and walk its first chapter at three depths. A subscription, monthly or a one-time lifetime purchase through your App Store account, opens every book at every depth, a protagonist in each, ironman, the weekly ranked descent, and a new book each month. Sub rosa: under the rose. What is said under the rose stays there. Terms of Use (EULA): https://playsubrosa.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://playsubrosa.com/privacy

Your clan is under siege. The forest has turned against you. And the crown weighs heavier with every decision you make. Step into the armor of a Queen, a ruler fighting a desperate, relentless invasion threatening to erase her ancestral people from history. Survival demands more than strength. It demands instinct, timing, and the will to make choices no queen should ever have to make. The shadows are closing in. What kind of ruler will you be? YOUR STORY. YOUR COMMAND. Edge Born is not a game where the story happens around you, you are the force that drives it forward. Every decision made at critical narrative crossroads reshapes the world around you. Destinies splinter into entirely different futures. With a deeply branching storyline and multiple distinct endings, no two playthroughs lead to the same fate. Step back into the story at any time, and carve a different path, because sometimes, the crown must be earned more than once. MASTER YOUR ARSENAL. DEFEND YOUR BORDERS. The forest is no longer safe, and neither are the roads into your kingdom. Face waves of warrior infantry and hunt down the Forest Demons, ancient, merciless forces of nature that demand everything you have. Your blade weakens with every battle. A weapon at half health deals half its power. Repair early, or watch your costs spiral at the forge when your steel reaches critical condition. KEY FEATURES - Branching royal narrative with multiple distinct endings shaped entirely by your choices - Real-time tactical combat with directional swing mechanics and cooldown discipline - Dynamic enemy roster including standard infantry and high-threat generals - Weapon health and degradation system with exponential repair cost scaling - Accessibility via audio cues and VoiceOver compatibility for visually impaired players. Your people are calling. Your town is burning. Pick up your blade and lead.