procedural floors
the dungeon reshuffles every run. 9 biomes, 40+ room grammars, zero mercy. if you memorize a layout, that's a bug — we patch it.
overclock games // two humans, one spare room
DIRGE PROTOCOL
a synthwave dungeon-crawler where the dungeon remembers you. procedurally cruel floors, a soundtrack that syncs to your descent, and permadeath with a long memory. we died 4,217 times so you'd die better.
pc first · console later · handheld eventually
deaths logged: 4,217 and counting
[ the game ]
every floor is a fresh mistake.
dirge protocol is built on four promises. we keep them weekly, in public, in the devlog below.
permadeath+
death is permanent. your corpse isn't. next run you'll meet whatever killed you — wearing your gear, holding a grudge.
synth soundtrack
forty minutes of original synthwave that syncs to floor depth. the bass drops when the boss does.
couch co-op
1–2 players, one screen. friendly fire is off by default. you'll turn it on. we know you.
0playtest deaths
0builds shipped
0biomes
0humans
[ screens ]
shot on an imaginary CRT.
four floors, four palettes. these aren't images — they're drawn live in your browser by the same renderer as the hero. pick a floor.
no compositor, no photoshop. view source — the dungeon is ~200 lines of canvas.
[ devlog ]
patch notes, typed the hard way.
a build every friday since 2024. here's what shipped lately — straight from the run log.
Devlog. Version 0.3.1, July 2, 2026, balance: nerfed the rat king — he knows what he did;
fixed a bug where death was insufficiently permanent; torches now flicker at 8 frames per
second, as nature intended. Version 0.3.0, June 19, 2026, content: new biome, the flooded
archive — 14 rooms, 3 new ways to drown; track 07 “chlorine cathedral” shipped — juno says
it's her best, she's right. Version 0.2.9, June 5, 2026, bugfix: co-op — player two can no
longer sell player one at the shop; fog now renders in front of your regrets, not behind them.
[ the studio ]
two people. one rule: ship weekly.
overclock is a two-person studio in a spare room that used to be a closet. we started dirge protocol in 2024 with no publisher, no funding round and no roadmap slides — just a friday build and a rule that it ships. the tile renderer on this page is the actual engine's little sibling. the deaths counter is real. the rat king incident is documented.
mara
code · tools · the tile renderer
juno
art · music · the screaming
[ the run log ]
one email a month. mostly gifs.
wishlisting isn't live until the store page is — so join the run log and we'll ping you the moment it is. build notes, dungeon gifs, the occasional apology.
no spam, no “exciting news”. we're two people — we physically cannot spam you. unsubscribe whenever.