FACT SHEET
TITLE
LootShrine
DEVELOPER
Tim Pereverzev (solo)
PUBLISHER
Self-published
GENRE
Pixel art roguelite RPG · Turn-based · Dark fantasy
HEROES
20 — 16 in the base game, 4 in the Kalzania expansion
PLATFORMS
iPhone and iPad · a native iPad layout since 1.7.3
REQUIREMENTS
iOS / iPadOS 17 or later
PRICE MODEL
Free to download · First 10 floors free · One-time IAP unlocks the full game · Kalzania: The Unspent Year — optional paid expansion (needs the full game) · Optional cosmetic-only Supporter Packs (no pay-to-win)
LANGUAGES
English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese (17 languages)
RELEASE STATUS
Available now
CURRENT VERSION
1.7.3
CONTENT RATING
App Store 12+ (fantasy violence)
GAME CENTER
Global and per-class leaderboards · 160+ achievements in game
OFFLINE
Full offline play · iCloud save sync via CloudKit
APP STORE
WEBSITE
CONTACT
PITCH — COPY ANY OF THESE
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ONE-LINER
LootShrine is a free-to-try pixel art roguelite RPG for iPhone and iPad where every item is a three-way decision — and you set the difficulty yourself.
SHORT (~50 WORDS)
A solo-developed pixel art roguelite for iPhone and iPad. Climb a 120-floor tower of dark fantasy where every item can be equipped, absorbed for a temporary buff, or sacrificed at the shrine for permanent power. Free to try for 10 floors; one purchase unlocks the rest. No ads, no subscriptions, no pay-to-win.
MEDIUM (~130 WORDS)
LootShrine is a turn-based roguelite RPG for iPhone and iPad, built solo by Tim Pereverzev. The hook is the three-way loot decision: every item you pick up can be equipped for stats, absorbed for a one-battle buff, or sacrificed at the shrine for permanent run-long gains. Climb the 100-floor Adventure toward the Origin and twenty more floors beyond it, or unlock the endless Eternal Climb and draft your own difficulty: every two floors the shrine offers three permanent curses, and another player’s hero can climb at your side as an Echo. Sixteen heroes, more than 200 enemies and 38 item sets in the base game, a permanent Word to compose, full offline play — and one purchase unlocks everything beyond floor 10. Kalzania: The Unspent Year is an optional paid 50-floor expansion with four more heroes.
KEY FEATURES
- Three-way loot decisions — equip, absorb, or sacrifice every drop
- Three ways to climb — the 100-floor Adventure plus 20 floors Beyond the Origin, the endless Eternal Climb, and the Kalzania expansion (paid)
- You set the difficulty — draft permanent curses every two floors
- 20 heroes — 16 in the base game, from the Knight to the Unwriter, plus the Chandler, Mason, Almoner and Apparitor in Kalzania
- Echoes — another player’s hero climbs at your side in the Eternal Climb
- The Author’s Word — a permanent meta layer of Fragments you compose and upgrade
- A boss every 10 floors — each with its own cinematic and a second phase; ten shuffled Wardens in the Eternal Climb
- Pixel art, dark fantasy — one consistent look across every hero, enemy and floor
- Built for iPhone and iPad — one-handed portrait play on the phone, a full layout on iPad
- Free to try, one-time unlock — no subscriptions, no loot boxes, no ads
- 17 languages — EN, DE, ES, FR, ID, IT, JA, KO, PL, PT-BR, RU, TH, TR, UK, VI, ZH-Hans, ZH-Hant
- Full offline play + iCloud save sync via CloudKit
- Game Center — global and per-class leaderboards, 160+ achievements
- Ghost Challenges & the Hall of the Fallen — shareable run codes, and fallen heroes that outlive their runs
ASSETS — SCREENSHOTS
Click DOWNLOAD on any tile to grab the JPG — or grab everything at once via the full press kit ZIP ↑ at the top. Native pixel art at the original iPhone aspect ratio; please don't resave through a screenshot or editor unless you have to.
ASSETS — iPAD SCREENSHOTS
The App Store iPad set. The ZIP has them at full size, 2064 × 2752.
ASSETS — KEY ART
ASSETS — KALZANIA (DLC 1)
Key art from the expansion: intro slides and King Corvain’s throne room.
ASSETS — LOGO & APP ICON
ASSETS — CHARACTER PORTRAITS
All 20 hero portraits, as shown on the selection screen. Pixel art, native resolution.
ASSETS — CHARACTER INTROS
All 20 hero intro artworks (1024 × 1536), the big key visuals from the hero carousel.
THE DEVELOPER
“I made it because I wanted a deep, turn-based loot roguelite on my phone and couldn’t find one, so I built it in my spare time and I keep adding to it.”
— TIM PEREVERZEV, SOLO DEVELOPER · FULL BIO →
RECENT UPDATES
Major recent releases — full patch notes on the news page:
- v1.7.3 — A native iPad layout, Echoes in the Eternal Climb, three times the souls
- v1.7.2 — Four new heroes, the Armory stash, a new camp in the Tower, 17 languages
- v1.7.1 — Builds you can share with a code, and full localization
- v1.7.0 — Kalzania: The Unspent Year, the first expansion
DIRECT CONTACT — REVIEW CODES, INTERVIEWS, EMBARGO
PRESS · CREATORS · INTERVIEWS
support@lootshrine.comEmail goes straight to Tim. Reasonable response time, no PR intermediary. Happy to talk pre-coverage, send extra assets, share dev notes, schedule an interview, or coordinate around an embargo.