Solve et coagula

Ars Magna

The Great Work

From what is broken,
something extraordinary.

An alchemy & survival game iOS & Android

Descend

Everything transforms.
Even what you have lost.

Twenty people arrive at the Cinderhouse carrying the ruins of a former life. A glassblower. A canal-diver. A man who never takes off his mask. Each has found in the Art a reason to begin again.

Keep their house. Discover the elements. Take what you have made into the dark beneath it.

Meet the people of the Cinderhouse

The Art comes alive.

Gameplay trailer · 30 seconds

One great work.
Two sides of the same fire.

What you discover above changes how you survive below.

Fuse two elements to discover a third — THE VESSEL · Alchemy & discovery

Hold the line with 82 weapons — THE CINDERHOUSE · Survivors-style combat

THE VESSEL

Every element comes from the old correspondence tables: the four elements and the three principles, the seven metals and their planets, the signs, the tarot, the decans, the Sephiroth. Put two together and the rules decide what comes out. There are 60,215 elements across three layers of the work, and each one you craft is a generator that keeps producing while you are away.

60,215 elements. Three layers of the Work.

THE CINDERHOUSE

A survivors-style arena. Pick a character, carry four packets of your own elements down, and hold the ground while the tide comes in. Thirty weapons and fifty-two fusions between them, 560 creatures with a boss for every ward and grade, and a ladder of stages that never ends. Each stage hides four forgotten ashes; find all four before the boss will take a hit.

30 weapons. 52 fusions. A descent without end.

Watch the Cinderhouse cinematic

The people
behind the Art.

Twenty lives. Twenty reasons to keep going. Choose an alchemist to discover their story.

Cinematic portrait

glassblower · Fire

Isolde Glasswidow

Isolde married into a glass family and buried her husband young, and kept his two children and his furnaces both, because they were all she had left of him.

The Kiln Owners' Table · The Kiln Shelf

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Choose your alchemist

All twenty stories

Ott

Pip

Liora

A world beneath
the world.

Below Ravel, the underworks descend two miles into the earth. Glass furnaces, drowned shafts, and old galleries hold the people, houses, and histories of the Work.

Send expeditions into the depths. Bring back salvage. Find out what still waits in the places the light has left.

Explore the map of Ravel