BLADES OF HELIOS™

Forge Your Legend in Ichor. Become the Weapon the Gods Intended.

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What the Game Is

Divine RTS Roguelite Survival

Blades of Helios blends classic RTS settlement control, roguelite run progression, and horde-survival pressure. Each descent asks the player to defend a World-Anchor before the island is dragged into the abyss.

Villagers building a house, gathering from a gold mine, and cutting trees in Blades of Helios
01

Land Under the Solar Ward

A short opening window gives you time to scout, gather, build, and prepare before the tide begins to move.

02

Build the Settlement

Direct villagers, harvest wood and gold, place buildings, expand production, and fortify routes to the World-Anchor.

03

Raise the Army

Train combat units, organize defenses, command groups, and prepare for increasingly hostile wave compositions.

04

Survive High Tide

Enemy ships land on beaches and unload undead forces that march inland toward your anchor, walls, gates, and defenders.

05

Ascend Through the Gods

Choose divine paths, unlock god powers, blessings, myth units, upgrades, and run-defining strategic bonuses.

06

Return to the Eternal Forge

Use Souls, equipment, and permanent progression to evolve your Vessel for the next island war.

A Broken Paradise

Elysium has fallen. The ancestral continent is gone, swallowed by a relentless, primordial tide. All that remains of a golden age are the highest peaks, shattered islands rising like broken teeth above a violent, endless ocean.

"The World-Anchors are the only things keeping these final stones from slipping into the abyss. If the Anchor shatters, the island drowns. And Acheron is patient."

THE DEPTHS Acheron's Reach
THE PEAKS Final Sanctuary
THE ANCHOR World-Binding

Development Roadmap

The Vessel finding a POI blessing shrine in Blades of Helios
Phase I

Foundations

Core Architecture & Engine Foundation
  • Deterministic Island Generation
  • Resource Gathering & Management
  • Player and Hostile AI Architecture
  • Building System
  • Unit Production System
  • Basic Melee & Ranged Combat Systems
  • Selection/Command Controller
  • Unit Local Avoidance Systems
COMPLETED
COMPLETED
Phase II

Core

Dynamic Gameplay Systems
  • Fog of War
  • Day & Night Cycle
  • Ascension System (Match Progression)
  • Combat and ability Stats
  • Hostile Waves & Tiers
  • Minimap System
  • UI & Main Menu
Phase III

Progression

Meta-Progression
  • Transcendence Upgrades (Permanent Progression)
  • EXP & Leveling System
  • Character Customization
  • Character Equipment and Weapons
  • Shrines & Chest Spawns
  • Godpowers
  • Elite/Myth/Boss Hostile Units
  • Leaderboard Integration
COMPLETED
Q3 2026
Phase IV

Gameplay

Expansion, Progression & More
  • Unit Models Overhaul
  • Unit Types Overhaul
  • AI Combat Overhaul
  • AI Movement and Pathfinding Overhaul
  • God Powers Overhaul
  • Animations
  • SFX & Music
  • Combat VFX
  • UI Overhaul
  • Unit Upgrades Overhaul
Final Phase

Alpha Testing

Community stability & balance testing.
  • Performance Stress Testing
  • Closed Feedback Testing (Check Discord for information)
  • Bug Squashing & Balancing
  • More
Q4 2026
Future Plans

Technical Excellence • Performance Driven

Hall of Heroes

Rank Vessel Wave ▼ Kills Souls Freed Time Difficulty
Consulting the Oracle...

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Voluntary Support

Help Fund Blades of Helios

Blades of Helios is a solo-developed indie RTS roguelite currently in private development. Voluntary support helps fund production assets that improve the playable build.

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Contributions are voluntary support for the development of Blades of Helios. They are not charitable donations and are not tax-deductible. Support does not grant ownership, equity, revenue share, or guaranteed closed-test access.

KnightSlash Studios

Blades of Helios character creation screen

KnightSlash Studios™ is an independent game studio focused on creating strategy games that are exciting, replayable, and above all, fun.

We believe memorable games are not built by chasing perfect balance. They are built by creating moments players cannot stop talking about. Impossible battles, unexpected victories, wild strategies, and stories that happen naturally through gameplay.

Founded by a solo developer with over a decade of programming and game development experience, KnightSlash Studios is built on a passion for ambitious systems, high performance gameplay, and the classic real time strategy games that inspired us.

Over the years, we have contributed to open source projects like Veloren and created mods and custom content for games including Arma 3, DayZ, Stonehearth, Minecraft, and Stellaris.

Our debut title, Blades of Helios™, draws inspiration from classics like Age of Empires, Warcraft, and StarCraft, while using modern technology to support larger battles, deeper simulations, and endless replayability.

Powered by Unity DOTS and our custom NavCore framework, Blades of Helios is designed to let thousands of units fight, gather, build, and survive together in real time.

As an independent studio, every feature, mechanic, and update is guided by one simple question.

Is it fun?

If the answer is yes, we are moving in the right direction.

Fun First • Strategy Driven • Solo Built