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Exanima

Bare Mettle Entertainment

Explore, fight, survive and unravel mysteries in this unique and unforgiving 3D isometric RPG set in an original dark, low fantasy world. Exanima's exceptional attention to detail and realistic simulation of all things aim to provide a deeply immersive and dynamic gameplay experience.

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Explore, fight, survive and unravel mysteries in this unique and unforgiving 3D isometric RPG set in an original dark, low fantasy world. Exanima's exceptional attention to detail and realistic simulation of all things aim to provide a deeply immersive and dynamic gameplay experience.

Features include a deep skill based combat system, complex and smart AI, fully interactive environments, an advanced damage model with accurate collisions and locational protection, roguelike elements and an arena mode to hone your combat skills.

"Those who would enter the underworld shall not only forfeit their lives...
...but bring oblivion to all mankind."


WARNING: THIS GAME IS ACTUALLY DIFFERENT!

This game features a very deep, truly physics based combat system. This is not just some animation feature, it is a fundamental difference that is central to gameplay. Real momentum, forces and collisions are always at play here, every nuance of your inputs is crucial to the outcome. This will likely be unlike anything you've played before and may take some practice, but can be hugely rewarding and the skill cap is virtually infinite. It is not particularly fast paced or difficult but it does require you to pay attention, it is very tactical and just casually pressing buttons won't get you very far!

Our goal is to create a deep and immersive RPG world based on a more advanced simulation supporting an unprecedented level of dynamic and emergent gameplay. All of the technology we use including the game engine is our own, developed from the ground up to realise this vision.

Exanima is born as a prelude to Sui Generis (SG), our ambitious open world RPG that has been in development for over two years following a successful Kickstarter campaign. Exanima is a smaller yet complete game in its own right, a dungeon crawler that takes place in SG's Underworld some twenty years prior to its events. Both games are being developed in concert, many of SG's more ambitious features will make an appearance in Exanima as development continues.

Exanima provides a reasonably complete and meaningful game experience, but many more features are on their way! We have met our most challenging and significant development goals, now we are ready to bring new features to light and make an even more fun and compelling adventure. Here are some of the planned features, with many already being close to completion:

  • Per session and global character skill progression
  • Large non-linear main game following early content
  • Build and permanently save characters by completing early content
  • New encounters, items and environments
  • Ranged combat and new close quarter manoeuvres
  • Numerous moddable thaumaturgic powers
  • More complete arena game modes featuring outdoor arenas
  • Complex NPC interactions and dialogue
  • Cooperative and competitive LAN multiplayer

Community Activity

  1. ExanimaSteam patch notes

    Exanima 0.9.5.2g

    Another patch with some changes as we solidify the foundations of combat physics and mechanics before larger scale changes. We've done an overhaul of all attack "targeting" and…

  2. ExanimaSteam announcement

    Coffee Diary - October 2026

    Hey Exanimates, Last month we were very secretive and cryptic about what we were working on. The short version is we were trying to figure something out and didn't want to talk…

  3. ExanimaSteam patch notes

    EXANIMA 0.9.5.2e

    Another patch with a few improvements and fixes. Leading up to our combat revision we're taking a look at some foundational things, here in particular we added some dynamic…

  4. ExanimaSteam patch notes

    EXANIMA 0.9.5.2c BETA

    EXANIMA 0.9.5.2c BETA A patch with various improvements and fixes before we move on to testing changes to combat mechanics. Improved stagger mechanics (less stunlock) Adjusted…

  5. ExanimaSteam announcement

    Coffee Diary - September 2026

    Hey Exanimates, We recently released an update which added some pretty big new features including a save system. This did include some small content updates, but there won't be…

  6. ExanimaSteam announcement

    Exanima 0.9.5.2

    This update introduces various new features and interactions to the late game. Importantly this introduces a "save system", but it is only a part of what's added and it is fairly…

  7. ExanimaSteam announcement

    Coffee Diary - August 2026

    Hey Exanimates, Exanima 0.9.5.1 is currently in public testing. This version introduces the late game save system, an alternative "cheat death" mechanic, a new minion, a new way…

  8. ExanimaSteam announcement

    Coffee Diary - July 2026

    Hey Exanimates, We've been steadily releasing patches since the update with many improvements and fixes, but the flow of patches has stopped over the last couple of weeks as…

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