Alruna and the Necro-Industrialists

Alruna and the Necro-Industrialists

Released Sep 2024

Alruna is a compact and high-density Metroidvania, with a focus on sequence-breaking and playing things out of order.

84% positive · 127 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

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Evaluation

Alruna and the Necro-Industrialists launched on September 26, 2024 as a complete, self-contained Metroidvania. The developer shipped one small bug-fix patch on October 22, 2024, and has not announced any DLC, expansions, or additional content for this game. There are no unreleased DLC listings on the store. On October 16, 2025, the developer announced Alruna: End of History — a separate, standalone sequel on Steam. The developer explicitly describes it as "the second game in the Alruna series" and "a gameplay evolution, but not a direct story sequel," making clear this is a new product rather than additional content for the original game. The announcement post also signals that the developer has shifted their creative focus to the sequel, with no mention of further updates or content for the first game. With no DLC, no post-launch content roadmap, no ongoing update cadence, and the developer's attention now directed toward a sequel, the original game launched and remains a complete, finished product.
Evidence
Developer announces Alruna: End of History, a standalone sequel — a new game in the series, not DLC or additional content for the original
news post · Oct 16, 2025 source development ending
high
Store description presents the game as a complete, self-contained Metroidvania with defined content (200+ rooms, four temples, multiple endings); no mention of post-launch updates or planned additions
description source content shipped
medium

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Details

Developer
Publisher
Burning Planet Digital
Achievements
—
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

All manner of thing shall be well

Welcome to a compact, tightly packed Metroidvania, where the Square Aspect Ratio and Single Screen Level Design allows every one of the 200+ rooms to slot into the larger puzzle-box of the world; where secrets, exploits and sequence-breaking are built into the very foundation of the game; and where the overarching story doesn’t care too much which path you happen to take through the game.

Play the bosses out of order, why don’t you? Spawn your own Climbing Vines and sneak past difficult puzzles. Find a fifth secret temple in the east. Skip picking up any weapon and get by using only special abilities. Is it possible? Who knows!

Beloved, I have promised you violence

Alruna is a dryad in a dying world – a spirit of life in the land of the dead. The earth is sucked dry. There is only The Sprawl. Poor, bedraggled skele-men dot the Wasteland of the Necro-Industrialists and shuffle endlessly back and forth in a toiling mockery of life. But are they the real enemy? Or do the skeletons suffer just as much as the dryads under the domination of the Necro-Industrialists?

And salvation? Is it possible? Dead men yearn for Heaven. But the dead can only dig...

A land of plenty? The Sprawl goes on forever!

  • An overworld that connects all areas of the game.

  • Four large “temples”, each one with a powerful upgrade and a formidable boss.

  • Maybe a secret fifth temple? There are rumors…

  • A star-crossed enemies-to-lovers romance with a rival adventurer. No spoilers!

  • Multiple endings, let’s call them the “combat ending” and the “exploration ending”.

  • Hidden mini-games, power-ups, shortcuts and secrets behind every wall.

Last evaluated Jun 20, 2026
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