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Runeomicon

Runeomicon

Perform a dark ritual with your own hands under relentless pressure. Draw runes in real time, defend the ritual from enemies trying to stop it, and upgrade your skills to unleash devastating magic. Summon ancient eldritch gods in this dark fantasy game driven by skill, strategy and constant tension.

Released Sep 16, 2026 Developer TLR Games Publisher Joystick Ventures Platforms Windows Tower DefenseResource ManagementReal Time TacticsStrategyPixel Graphics
View on Steam ↗ $9.99 (US · as of 2026-09-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.

87.9%positive58 reviews
Recommended · 9 found this helpful

“Definitely fun and unique game if you like tower defense and/or little memory puzzles. Can recommend! The gameloop is amazing. The progress feels rewarding, and I love the art style. Though it does seem like playing on the hardest difficulty with 10 possible runes from the…”

— a player, Steam review · 55 hrs played
Recommended · 11 found this helpful

“A very fresh take on the tower defense / survivors, horror genre. There is enough depth within the game to spend over 10hours playing so for the price I think is fair.”

— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played
Recommended · 10 found this helpful

“I have not yet had the chance to explore everything Runeomicon has to offer, but I can tell it will be worth exploring and enjoying for quite a while. The central conceit is, essentially, a somewhat randomized, timed puzzle where you have to draw the right shape with a given set…”

— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.

42achievements
4.0%median completion
0.0%rarest: Are these all of them?
100.0% of players 100.0% of players 97.0% of players 82.4% of players 82.3% of players 80.6% of players 71.1% of players 51.1% of players 51.0% of players 43.4% of players 30.1% of players 24.3% of players 24.1% of players 13.2% of players 10.8% of players 10.8% of players 6.2% of players 6.1% of players 5.6% of players 5.6% of players 4.0% of players 4.0% of players 4.0% of players 3.8% of players 3.3% of players 2.9% of players 2.9% of players 2.9% of players 2.9% of players 2.4% of players 2.0% of players 1.4% of players 1.1% of players 0.8% of players 0.6% of players 0.4% of players 0.1% of players 0.1% of players 0.0% of players 0.0% of players 0.0% of players 0.0% of players 100.0% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
100.0%First Step — Complete your first Rune.
100.0%Focus, young summoner — Fail a rune for the first time.
97.0%Apprentice — Draw 100 runes.
Rarest badges of honor
0.0%Are these all of them? — Hidden achievement
0.0%Runic Archmage — Hidden achievement
0.0%Arcanist — Draw 3,000 runes.

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Sep 24, 2026
v1.0.5

Fixed the Synchrony accumulation challenge that I had fixed and then broke in the previous patch Fixed the Gods’ Humanities Shop; Nebris and Vexect had an upgrade that affected Estiox A level 4 rune (

Sep 23, 2026
v1.0.4

Fixed an upgrade from Zatur and Lantis in the Humanities Store that upgraded Estiox Fixed the -50% Mageia challenge that could not be completed Fixed the Synchrony accumulation challenge that did not

Sep 19, 2026
v1.0.3

Added support for graphics tablets Fixed one of the story statues that had incorrect code in the final dialogue Audio fix: one of the mageias kept playing even after completing the level Fixed the cha

Sep 17, 2026
v1.0.2

The audio and gameplay are no longer out of sync if the game loses focus Some localization fixes Fixed the credits displayed on the main menu, which prevented proper scrolling

Sep 16, 2026
Runeomicon Is Out Now!

It’s been quite a journey getting here. We’ve drawn more runes than we can count, summoned more creatures than we probably should have, and, most importantly, followed the Goddess’s orders every step

Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.

GenresAction, Indie, Strategy
Player tagsTower Defense · Resource Management · Real Time Tactics · Strategy · Pixel Graphics · Side Scroller · 2D · Action · Difficult · Dark Fantasy · Demons · Fantasy (Steam store community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish, Spanish - Spain, French, German, Russian, Portuguese - Brazil
Achievements42
Official sitehttps://www.tlrgames.com/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: Intel 4th Gen Dual Core 2.0Ghz Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: Nvida GTX Series 8 DirectX: Version 9.0 Storage: 1 GB available space