Summum Aeterna

Summum Aeterna

Released Sep 2023

Summum Aeterna is a fast-paced Roguelite inspired by the Metroidvania Aeterna Noctis. Create your own worlds, challenges, difficulty and influences in each new run. Die, learn, become stronger, and achieve victory. Death is inevitable, but glory is only for the chosen.

82% positive · 397 reviews
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All announced content has been released
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Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

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Evaluation

Summum Aeterna launched to its 1.0 release on September 14, 2023, after a period in Early Access. Just two weeks after launch, on September 28, 2023, the developer announced a free DLC called "The Witcher Awakening," which shipped on December 14, 2023, adding new weapon types, status ailments, skins, and more. That DLC represents the last major content release for the game. Both DLC items listed on the store — "Aeterna Chronicles: Memento Mori" and the official soundtrack — were released on launch day, September 14, 2023. No unreleased DLC exists in the store listing. Since December 2023, all developer communications have focused on other projects in the Aeterna universe: the sequel Aeterna Lucis (demo released June 2025, launch date confirmed as December 3, 2026 per the September 10, 2026 announcement), a new IP called Future Knight developed in collaboration with Studio Koba (announced February 2026), and a publishing partnership for Farmageddon (announced June 2026). None of these posts reference any upcoming content for Summum Aeterna. The developer has made no announcements of planned future content for Summum Aeterna, has no outstanding commitments to the game, and has clearly moved its focus to new titles. The game is a complete, finished product.
Evidence
Free DLC 'The Witcher Awakening' launched, adding new weapon types, status ailments, skins, and achievements — the last major content release for Summum Aeterna.
news post · Dec 14, 2023 source content shipped
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Developer announced 'The Witcher Awakening' free DLC shortly after launch, which was subsequently delivered in December 2023. No further content has been announced since.
news post · Sep 28, 2023 source content shipped
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Content

2 of 2 released · no outstanding content

Media

Details

Publisher
Aeternum Game Studios S.L
Achievements
160
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game



Summum Aeterna is a Roguelite game that combines world crawler mechanics never seen before in the genre with a fast-paced combat system and a unique 2D art style.

Taking the role of the King of Darkness, a mighty, powerful, and badass warlord condemned to eternal life, you'll explore uncharted worlds populated with treasures, traps, hordes of enemies and powerful bosses.

Explore wild territories, descend into the most dangerous depths of Aeterna, and fight your way to the end of each world... If you can!

Classic Roguelite vibes


The King of Darkness may be immortal... But he can still be defeated. You will start your adventure over and over again, that's how this kind of games works, right? Don't panic, even if you're defeated, you still keep some of the stuff and upgrades you earned the last time you lived... Some of them, at least.

Summum Aeterna allows players to keep their progress, featuring a permanent character and world upgrade system. No matter how many times you’re defeated, your progression in the skill tree will be saved, as well as the world improvements you unlocked will last forever.

Random worlds


Summum Aeterna includes a unique world generator system never seen before in the genre, the Seed Mechanic... Each one generates a unique world with different enemy behavior, special events, and even a larger map size, depending on the rarity and the genes contained in the germinated seed.

The world modifiers, so-called “seed genes” are positive and negative attributes included in each seed you find. They will determine the dangers, encounters and rewards waiting for you once you start playing. You can generate the world that best suits your playstyle.

Seeds create worlds and genes make each seed different from the last, and so will the worlds generated from them!

Brutal fast-paced combat


The key to surviving in Summum Aeterna is killing every single living (or undead, depending on the enemy) being you encounter. How to achieve that? Well, you play as a cursed monarch… Your weapons are crafted for a king!

Show no mercy, use your swords, pistols, and scythes to make them beg for their miserable lives before they do the same to you... You will choose a starting weapon at the beginning of each world, but you can switch it for a better one, whatever its type... It’s up to you and your skills!

Summum Aeterna also includes weapon customization options thanks to the gems, precious stones that increase weapon attributes and add cool upgrades. Add new offensive and passive capabilities and improve the combat performance of your weapons by embedding gems. You can also ascend your weapons to Summum level and unchained their true power by collecting specific diagrams!

Custom adventures


In Summum Aeterna you can define your own adventure. Each world will give you lots of rewards, including new seeds and currencies to upgrade your character skills, unlock new weapons, make the ones you already have even more deadly and, of course, improve the world's attributes.

You can unlock new special rooms, increase the rarity of the ítems you find, and alter the world conditions by the world upgrade menu. You can also modify the rarity of your current seeds by mutating their genes, or recycling the ones you don't want to get a seed with higher rarity...

Multiplayer leaderboard


Summum Aeterna features an interesting multiplayer and cross-platform feature, the so-called "Board of Champions".This mechanic records the highest level seed completed in the shortest time possible by each competitor. There is a leaderboard for influenced seeds and another one for standard seeds.

The reward for being in the top 3 places in the qualifier will be a gold, silver or bronze crown, which his highness will wear in-game regardless of the player's skin, and as long as the player remains on the podium. Do you want your King of Darkness to be crowned as every monarch deserves?

Last evaluated Sep 13, 2026
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