Ex Libris

Ex Libris

Inpatient Interactive · May 27, 2026 · Exploration, RPG, Souls-like, Dungeon Crawler, Interactive Fiction

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Ex Libris price

Ex Libris is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.

About Ex Libris

Midway through the journey of your life, you have found yourself at the gates of the legendary Abbey of St. Theleme, a monastery of great learning and of great mystery. Ex Libris is a library-crawling RPG adventure set in a 16th century monastery, inspired by the writings of Umberto Eco, Francois Rabelais, and Clark Ashton Smith. Built using FromSoft's Sword of Moonlight RPG toolkit (based on the King's Field engine), Ex Libris is a unique retro literary adventure. Explore the monastery and its ruins, learn ancient tongues, uncover lost texts, and unravel the strange threads that bind the obscure history of Theleme and its inhabitants, including yourself. Features
  • 10+ hours of non-linear exploration-based RPG gameplay
  • Hundreds of in-game texts to read, including both obscure real-world texts and new writing 
  • Two ancient languages (Ancient Greek and Latin) to learn along with a new conlang, Old Occident 

Ex Libris — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS
Player modes
Single-player
Controller
Full controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Jun 9, 2026
Goosebumps the whole time playing this. The ideas permeating the game, mood, exploration, the excerpts and the music, everything about this was phenomenal.
5 found this helpful
Recommended May 28, 2026
Not your run-of-the-mill King's Field style dungeon crawler akin to Return to Melanat or Lunacid - Tears of the Moon, but an adventure game with its own lore and world like Trismegistus with heavy emphasis on dialogues and exploration. SoM is a notoriously hard engine to work with, so controls and some of the scripting is a little on the jank side (high resolution breaks ingame text, getting an ending will just exit you from the game due to engine limitations, also better pay close attention to Logos and Physikos stats in the menu) but cooking something of this scale is an achievement in itself.
4 found this helpful
Recommended Jun 7, 2026
Interesting use of the engine. I really liked the language progression.
3 found this helpful
Recommended Jul 7, 2026
Fascinating.
1 found this helpful
Recommended Sep 25, 2026
I have barely gotten through the game at all but it's really relaxing to play and really interesting. Although after 50 mins of playing I found a crack in the side of the map and fell through and had to restart everything </3 but Still good game so far!
Recommended Jul 12, 2026
Reminds me Aidyn Chronicles. Sadly you cannot sneak past orcs in the snowy mountains in this game.

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