FORJ
Fight through cursed arenas, extract with the loot, and reforge it into power. A co-op action roguelite where hand-built golems mine, craft and run your shop while you battle, and every weapon can be enhanced, imbued, socketed and rerolled at your forge.
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The arena takes everything. The forge gives it back, sharper.
FORJ is a co-op action roguelite that fuses white-knuckle arena runs with a living crafting hub you build, staff and automate. Descend into cursed arenas, survive long enough to extract, then haul your spoils back home, where every weapon can be reforged into something monstrous, and your hand-built golems never stop working.
Loot drops
Every enemy you drop can leave behind a weapon, a set piece, a legendary with a rule-bending passive, or a stat stone waiting to be socketed. Over 100 pieces of gear and 36 weapons across 9 archetypes, spread across 7 rarities up to Timeless.
Pick it up
Every drop rolls with a visible quality tier, from a perfect T1 to a shameful T9. Grab it, check the tooltip, decide on the spot: equip it, sell it, or feed it to the forge.
Reforge it
Push gear from +0 to +9, imbue weapons with elemental effects, enchant them with dozens of affixes, socket stat stones, and when you're feeling brave, let the Hourglass of Ages twist an item's fate before freezing it forever.
Face a boss
Multi-phase bosses rule floors 5 and 10 of every biome, each phase adding new attacks, telegraphs and fury. Detonate elemental status combos like Overload and Superconduct to turn the tide.
Extract
Survive the onslaught, bring down the boss, then sprint for the exit door as the horde scales out of control behind you. Extraction floors don't let you leave quietly.
Build golems
Assemble golems piece by piece, head, arms, body, legs, and put them to work: mining, woodcutting, crafting, forging, selling. They keep producing while you're deep in the arena.
Build your hub
Place mines, crafting stations and workshops, decorate your grounds, and wear your own walking paths into the dirt. A base that grows the way you play.
Play together
Online co-op through Steam. Invite your friends, share the run and the loot. No one dies alone, fight your way to a downed ally and pull them back to their feet.
Sell it all
Stock your display tables and watch customers walk in, browse and pay real gold. Fill contracts, dodge the black market dealer's prices, and keep the forge economy running.
The arena never runs out of floors. The forge never runs out of work. How deep will you go?
