November 11, 2026. Independent studio MediaVerse Labs and publisher Eager Dragon Publishing today released Eldritch Descent X on the Epic Games Store for Windows PC. A Steam release follows soon.
The gameEldritch Descent X is a vertical shoot 'em up of cosmic horror for one or two players. Players dive a lamp-lit ship through five drowned strata, from the coast to the bottom of the ocean and beyond the sky.
Power has a price. Players take corruption from the Old Ones to grow stronger, and as their sanity slips, phantoms join the swarm, the HUD glitches and lies, and the voices whisper things they should not. The horror never hides a bullet: enemy fire is always magenta or cyan and drawn on top of everything.
The game is the successor to Eldritch Descent, rebuilt from scratch with painted art, a voiced story and two-pilot local co-op.
Key features- Five drowned strata: the Coast, the Abyss, the Sunken City, the Rising and the Void, three levels each.
- Guardians and lords: a guardian halfway down every stratum and a lord at the bottom. Seven lords in all, two of them hidden.
- Sanity that lies: corruption buys power, and the game stops telling the truth.
- Arcade scoring: grazes, chains, point-blank kills, sea mines and cancelled fire turned into gold. Extends at 1, 3 and 6 million.
- Medallions and boons: eleven secondary weapons that rank up to III, plus Overdrive, the Lodestone and the Tide Mirror, which throws bullets back.
- 1-2 player local co-op: shared lives, separate power and shields, and a downed partner you fly over to revive.
- Made to be replayed: four difficulties from Easy to Nightmare, a daily descent, four endings, 54 achievements and a Codex read aloud by the Chronicler.
- Six languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and Italian, voiced in English and Spanish.
The game plays offline, with full controller support, no ads and no microtransactions.
Price and availability|
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Price |
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Out now |
$4.99 |
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Steam |
Coming soon |
$4.99 |
Eldritch Descent X runs on Windows 10 and 11. It is a one-time purchase with no online requirement. A Microsoft Store release is also planned.
Epic Game Store: https://store.epicgames.com/p/eldritch-descent-x-bae6b8
Trailer, screenshots and key art: eldritchx.mediaverselabs.com
Press Kit: https://madoctopus.fun/press/eldritch-descent-x/
MediaVerse Labs is an independent studio making PC games and desktop software, ad-free and private. Its games include The Night Shift: Case Files, IRON FURY and Chrono Arena. Eldritch Descent X is published by Eager Dragon Publishing. More at mediaverselabs.com