Leap of Fate
Released Mar 2016
Leap of Fate is a furiously-paced cyberpunk roguelite about overcoming your fears and achieving your fate. In a New York City where magic is real, you play as a technomage who must develop unspeakable powers to confront the Crucible of Fates. Can you survive the trials?
87% positive · 472 reviews
Done
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Done
All announced content has been released
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Evaluation
Leap of Fate launched into full release on March 30, 2016 after an Early Access period. Following launch, the developer shipped a handful of patches through mid-2017, with the last post on May 27, 2017 being a bug fix that included a teaser about "something suuuper exciting" coming soon. However, no follow-up announcement ever materialized on the Leap of Fate Steam page — the studio's subsequent communications were entirely focused on their next game, Operation: Tango (announced June 2020), and then their latest project, Happy Bastards (announced June 2024). The May 2017 teaser was almost certainly referring to the iOS release that had already shipped in August 2016, or alternatively was simply abandoned as the studio moved on.
The November 2024 studio retrospective post explicitly frames Leap of Fate as the first chapter in Clever Plays' history — "From Leap of Fate to Operation: Tango, and now Happy Bastards" — treating it as a completed, past work. There are no unreleased DLC items, no active roadmap, and no developer communication about Leap of Fate content since May 2017. The studio has clearly moved its full attention to Happy Bastards. The only DLC ever released was the soundtrack on May 20, 2016. The game shipped as a complete product and has received no content additions in nearly a decade.
Evidence
Clever Plays studio retrospective explicitly frames Leap of Fate as the studio's first completed game, describing a progression from Leap of Fate to Operation: Tango to the current project Happy Bastards.
Leap of Fate launched as a full 1.0 release after 8 months in Early Access, with all cinematics, story elements, and four playable characters complete.
Content
1 of 1 released · no outstanding content
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Clever Plays
Achievements
50
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player
About this game
They say this place makes you face your own fears, your own demons. But it can also reveal your fate… if you survive the trials.
Leap of Fate is a unique blend of isometric perspective, furiously-paced action, and roguelike elements. As one of four technomages hiding in the shadows of New York City, your time has come to confront the Crucible of Fates, a mysterious testing ground that will magically pit you against your own psychological demons. Your journey through the Crucible has you fighting hordes upon hordes of enemies and overcoming deviously laid traps. Your tools are your lightning-fast shadow walk, the powerful glyphs you find, and the magical skills that you upgrade along the way. Your reward for survival? Unspeakable power and a chance to uncover your true fate.
In Leap of Fate, you play one of four mages, each with their own distinct gameplay style and storyline:
Key Features:
Combat in Leap of Fate is extremely quick and deadly. Not only will you face more than a hundred different types of enemies, ranging from pit fighters to mad cultists and hidden turrets, but the procedurally generated levels will keep you on your toes at all times. Be warned; once you die, you must restart from the beginning and try again. Hopefully, you'll have unlocked new permanent upgrades to help you along.
Within each game session, you will find many opportunities to gain magical power. In addition to the game-altering glyphs you randomly find along the way, there are more than a hundred magical abilities total, spread across the Mobility, Attack and Passive skill trees. The twist in Leap of Fate is that skill trees are randomly shuffled, ensuring that each game differs from the previous one. On one run¬¬, you'll float over pits and disintegrate enemies with Atomic Flash, while in the next, you'll be wielding a projectile-reflecting technology while calling upon the Greys to abduct your foes for you.
Clever Plays Studio has a great Discord community! Discuss Leap of Fate, our other games, or just chat with some amazing people interested in our games. Join today over at
Leap of Fate is a unique blend of isometric perspective, furiously-paced action, and roguelike elements. As one of four technomages hiding in the shadows of New York City, your time has come to confront the Crucible of Fates, a mysterious testing ground that will magically pit you against your own psychological demons. Your journey through the Crucible has you fighting hordes upon hordes of enemies and overcoming deviously laid traps. Your tools are your lightning-fast shadow walk, the powerful glyphs you find, and the magical skills that you upgrade along the way. Your reward for survival? Unspeakable power and a chance to uncover your true fate.
In Leap of Fate, you play one of four mages, each with their own distinct gameplay style and storyline:
- Aeon, the shadow mage
- Big Mo, the cyborg technomancer
- Mukai, the spirit channeler
- Rasimov, the rogue occultist
Key Features:
- Experience an extremely fast and satisfying action game, built around the ability to Shadow Walk
- Upgrade over a hundred magical skills, through an innovative system of randomly-generated skill trees
- Discover the profound and intense stories of four characters, told through beautifully illustrated cinematics
- Explore a modern-day cyberpunk fantasy spanning cybernetics labs, dark alleys and secret societies
Combat in Leap of Fate is extremely quick and deadly. Not only will you face more than a hundred different types of enemies, ranging from pit fighters to mad cultists and hidden turrets, but the procedurally generated levels will keep you on your toes at all times. Be warned; once you die, you must restart from the beginning and try again. Hopefully, you'll have unlocked new permanent upgrades to help you along.
Within each game session, you will find many opportunities to gain magical power. In addition to the game-altering glyphs you randomly find along the way, there are more than a hundred magical abilities total, spread across the Mobility, Attack and Passive skill trees. The twist in Leap of Fate is that skill trees are randomly shuffled, ensuring that each game differs from the previous one. On one run¬¬, you'll float over pits and disintegrate enemies with Atomic Flash, while in the next, you'll be wielding a projectile-reflecting technology while calling upon the Greys to abduct your foes for you.
Clever Plays Studio has a great Discord community! Discuss Leap of Fate, our other games, or just chat with some amazing people interested in our games. Join today over at
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Last evaluated Jun 27, 2026
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