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Celestial Return

Metaphor Games, Shoreline Games

Loot, bribe, gamble, survive. The dice will be your savior or your downfall in this story-driven RPG. Every roll matters when trying to uncover cosmic horrors and outwit megacorps. Pray your next roll won’t be your last.

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About This Game

A dying city. A string of suicides. A detective with nothing left to lose.

Netherveil City eats the weak. Its streets bleed neon, its corpses crawl back to life, and its secrets? They'll gnaw through your sanity. Step into the worn boots of Detective Howard. Armed with a rusted badge, a sentient rose that won't shut up, and a pocketful of stolen dice.

Explore the city. Interrogate the dead. Expose the c*rpos.
Investigate. Make choices. Loot the dice. Roll the dice.
And survive. (Optional.)

Dice are oxygen. They keep you alive. Earn 'em, spend 'em, lose 'em. Hoard too long, and opportunities vanish. Roll recklessly, and resources burn.

There’s no perfect build. No power fantasies. Just survival... barely.

Your choices build character. Your character builds choices.

Intelligence picks locks in silence. Virtue pleads for mercy. Foolishness laughs at the abyss.
These fragments clash, corrupt, and rewrite your path mid-conversation. Choose your poison and deal with the consequences.

A hand-shattered art style. Where manga’s precision meets the raw nerve of American comics. Ripping pages from legends like Blame!, Biomega, Akira, and Berserk. Our artistry aims to evoke the same depth and intensity that made these series iconic.

Gear up for an auditory assault. Noir Jazz, Cyberpunk Techno, Death Metal. This isn't background noise. Sonic warfare.

Heroes don't last long in Netherveil. This is a manifesto for the forgotten, the erased, the expendable, those never given a chance. It’s about those who were never meant to survive, yet somehow still do. It’s about the existential terror of being alive in a world ruled by forces you can’t see. It’s about resistance.

“I’m here, and I won’t go quietly.”

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  1. Celestial ReturnSteam announcement

    Still Standing! A Little Update From Us

    Hey everyone, Earlier today, mikeydsc made a discussion post just to check if we were okay because we’ve been a little quiet lately. (Can we spam the comments with “Thank you,…

  2. Celestial ReturnSteam announcement

    Patch 1.0.6 is Live

    Another patch just dropped! Hey everyone! We've fixed one of the biggest headaches in the game: the startup bug where the game could get stuck on a gray square the first time you…

  3. Celestial ReturnSteam announcement

    Week One: Survived

    It’s been one week since our game hit the wild. For four years, this game was almost our entire lives. Every evening after work, every weekend, every holiday Bilge (Whiplash) and…

  4. Celestial ReturnSteam patch notes

    Patch 1.0.5 is Live

    Another patch is live! Changes Improved the reliability of save/load in a few edge cases. Fixed several dialogue issues and typos reported by the community. Updated the Dice…

  5. Celestial ReturnSteam patch notes

    Patch 1.0.4 is Live

    Hey everyone! Another small update is live! Changes Added an autosave at the end of every Book. The game already autosaves at the beginning of every scene, but we've also added…

  6. Celestial ReturnSteam patch notes

    Patch 1.0.3 is Live

    Hey everyone! Our goal was for spending dice to feel tense and meaningful. The idea behind the system is that money is luck and you're only as lucky as the dice count you have.…

  7. Celestial ReturnSteam patch notes

    Patch 1.0.2 is Live

    Hey everyone! Another patcy is live. Thanks again for all the bug reports and feedback. We've been reading everything and working through the list as fast as we can. Fixed…

  8. Celestial ReturnSteam patch notes

    Patch 1.0.0.11 Is Live!

    Thanks again for all the reports and feedback. Here's what's included in this update: Switched to new video codecs to fix the broken video playback on Steam Deck. Fixed the…

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