DOOMSPIRAL

More Art + Timelines Update
10 days ago – Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 08:31:00 AM

We've made it to the next Tether/Site of Grace/Bonfire/Lantern of Doomspiral development, and thought we'd post an update while we're taking time to spend all those Thread/Runes/Souls/Echoes. 

The team behind Doomspiral are all still hard at work with more beautifully hideous art arriving from Dwyn each week and Eryk fashioning his dreams of A24 Brutalism into book format. Nick and Zach are, fittingly, locked in a great and terrible battle with the endings and template monsters, and like the latter's attempts to defeat Ornstein and Smough, there is much cursing, restarting, and venting in discord channels.

Here’s three new pieces to share with you all! 

We'll be providing more updates soon, and are now hoping to deliver the PDF sometime in April or May. We're having to adjust timelines, and we always focus on our games being the best they can possibly be, and never sacrificing this for punctuality. We've been taking extra time to adapt our art to the layout, respond to the feedback on difficulty during the playtests, and ensure the information design of the layout is as clear and attractive as possible. 

If you made it down this far, next week we're launching Orbital Blues Month via Backerkit. This is a month long celebration of the ORBITAL BLUES, our game of SAD SPACE COWBOYS.  There's not only a tentpole project from SoulMuppet called Outlaws and Corporations, but contributions by 5 amazing creators using our 3rd party license and a cassette EP to link them all together. We launch on 1st April (not a joke) and you should head over to the page, check out all the amazing projects and follow along for more updates. 

Thanks for your patience and we'll speak again soon, 

Zach

Notification of Accidental Message + Lots of Gods
about 1 month ago – Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 02:42:58 AM

Hi all

Sent a message to backers in error, when only the highest tier of backer was meant to recieve it. Sorry for the confusion! The form should no longer be accepting responses. If you are one of the top tier backers who should have got it, I'm going to email you privately. 

As way of an apology, I'm going to tell you a bit more about the Gods you recieved that mysterious message about! 

Spoilers ahead....

Apologies for the confusion, I hope this sates your desires for an update! More coming soon. 

Thanks 

Zach

Pledge Manager Update
3 months ago – Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 04:20:05 AM

Harken o' Forsaken, 

You should have all received your pledge manager surveys last week. Check the email that you received your updates on, and you should have had an invitation.

Shipping prices are in, and are our best guesses based on the weight of this very, very big book we're making for you! As always, EU taxes are paid. 

The books are not being printed in China and we ship everything internally from our US warehouse in Tennessee. We do not expect tariffs to be charged to any US backers. (unless your president comes up with some new policies that are even more restrictive to small businesses, in which case we'll keep you updated!)

We've got tons of new glorious art coming in by the day from the fantastic Dwyn. 
Witness the Observatory, a mini-dungeon in the Valley of the Faithful. 

Here is also the Eclipsing Tower, the endpoint of a terrifying quest involving our Art of War Tutor, the stalwart Veteran Mikol and his rival, the cruel Lord Vidaan. 

We've come out of the side of editing, and are now beginning the process of laying out everything. The next step will be progressing to layout, and Eryk is excited and ready to go, having already laid out the quickstart for us. 

Thanks and speak soon, 

Zach & the rest of the team

Pledge Manager Smoke Test & The Opening Read
4 months ago – Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 06:59:08 AM

Oh backers! Behold thy inbox and keep they lidless orbs peeled for the coming of the Backerkit Pledge manager. Some lucky and godless fools amongst you (roughly five in every fivescore) shall have already recieved the message, a great test of fate and a "challenge emitting from flame, ash and cinders", with the rest of you hapless souls recieving it in a few weeks once we have tested its veracity. 

(We finished the pledge manager. The smoke test has gone out. The rest of you should get it in a few weeks once we've checked the rates work and the survey is good!)

You also asked for the intro to Doomspiral, and now I shall supply it. We have still art and lore aplenty to share from. There is a deep and preposterous well of content to tease you all with, laden with troves of treasures, tombs and terrors.  

“Yes, for an age the World was proud and bright; the march of time orderly and measured.

For all; a place was given, a time was measured, and an end was appointed.

This was the promise of Godspun Fate.

Now broken, as all things are, and will ever be,

And to which the Gods make no rejoinder.

So cast on, you Forsaken - make true the promise thou art severed from.”

• The Eidolon of Halfway House

Weftenthaal is the still point of the turning world, the land where the Gods have anchored Fate itself, spoken of in legend and with reverence by the peoples of the lesser world. From here Moiranasse the Guardianess, first amongst the divine-equals, tightly grips the Loom of Fate and so commands the destinies of mortals. 

The characters are Forsaken; wretched, deathless warriors cut off from the certainty of Fate. The goal of their campaign is wrest control of the Loom from its Guardianess and topple her order, so that they may impose their own designs upon the future eras. Only the Forsaken, untethered from Fate, could ever hope to usurp it so. 

The Forsaken begin in the prison-fortress of Saltcrag, and must kill the Pharos-Warden to escape. Beyond this they may approach the various regions of Weftenthaal in any order, eventually reaching the Halfway House, a lonely safe haven where many other characters in the adventure take shelter.

To approach the Grand Foundation where the Loom of Fate is secured, they must first defeat the five Gods who serve alongside Moiranasse: Rainlord Gwyddain atop the Storm Tower, the Lovers Carwyn and Ceridwen sequestered in Mirrormire Manse, Linnea the Twinned who stalks the Halfgrave Forest, Gentle Amn slumbering in his Necropolis, and Glorious Emyrriad, last sentinel of Tar Valarn. Until they lie slain, the path to the Loom is sealed and Fate unassailable. 

There is no one path in Doomspiral; there are many regions to explore, secrets to uncover, stories to tell, and endless foes to overcome. Each journey will take its own route and have its own ending, influenced by the decisions the Forsaken make and the allies they make along the way.

As seen, we swear a solemn oath to make this game the biggest soulslike extravaganza any mortal has ever laid eyes upon! Keep your eyes out for the pledge manager, and continue to enjoy the quickstart. Head on over to Discord if you have questions for us, Nick and I are about, happy to tease and terrify. 

Thanks 

Zach

We Funded + Doomspiral Intro
5 months ago – Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 08:14:05 AM

Hey all, 

It's Zach here. The last 48 hours of the Doomspiral KS project was a bit of a whirlwind and I just wanted to take a minute to thank you for some support and share some teasers.

Nick and I are hard at work on the stretch goals you've hit and we're days from finalising the manuscript for the game, and moving it over to our amazing editor Cody next month for what will hopefully be an incredibly thorough editing pass! 

I thought I'd share some info on Aegnmere, the NPC I wrote for my stretch goal. 

"I'll do whatever it takes". That sounds pretty absolute, doesn't it? I hope that quest for Ancient Fire doesn't go poorly for Aegnmere. 

I thought I'd share this new piece Dwyn has done for the Threshold City, home of Emyrriad, the Lord of Glory and Ruin. Emyrriad is sort of the Herald of the Doomspiral, a mighty figure who once served as God of Prosperity, but the sickly ruin of Corrosion has set in on his realm of glory. 

The rot has set in accross the the Threshold City, affecting the Knight Prosperant and the Threshold Soldiers most of all! Worse, it seems Emyrriad has abandoned his city, and instead at the gates you will find the Golden Idol, a statue of a forgotten hero in glorious gold, but ruin spreading from his joints. The Idol serves as the first real real boss of the campaign, after the Pharos Warden many of you have met in our free quickstart, and he is the main obstacle between you and the fabled Halfway House. 

We've got all this and so much more to show you. I'll do a new update next month, and let me know in the comments which of these three you want to read: 

1. The intro to Doomspiral, and all the lovely paragraphs of flavour text which kick off the campaign. 
2. An overview of the Saints that gather at the Halfway House, and an inkling of the available. quests 
3. A look at the final boss we haven't shown you, Gentle Amn, lord of the Underworld. 

Thanks so much for your support! The best way to talk to us is to join the Discord and keep chatting in our specific Doomspiral channel.  

Thanks, 

Zach, Mol and the rest of the SoulMuppet Team