The Ethernal Spiral

The Ethernal Spiral

Chic Build · May 31, 2024 · Souls-like, Roguelike, Fantasy, Action, Magic

The Ethernal Spiral is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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The Ethernal Spiral price

The Ethernal Spiral 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 The Ethernal Spiral

The Eternal Spiral features challenging combat reminiscent of the Dark Souls series, emphasizing precise timing and strategic decision-making. Players must survive three intense waves of enemies, each culminating in a unique and formidable miniboss. Upon victory, the player progresses to the next level and gains a minor buff for the time being.

The game’s innovative time loop mechanic ensures that each reset brings both familiarity and new challenges. The player retains the skills and experiences gained from previous cycles, allowing players to adapt their playstyle and unlock new abilities.
However, The Big Boss becomes increasingly cunning, introducing unpredictable elements to each encounter.

The Ethernal Spiral — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

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

Recommended Aug 10, 2024
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7 found this helpful
Not recommended Feb 5, 2025
"The Ethernal Spiral" is, well, let's start with the elephant in the room... when the developer doesn't even know how to spell the name of his own game, you're gonna have a bad time. What do you do in the game? This is a very simple tech demo with simple 1v1 arena fighting versus a bot, with limited "Soulslike" combat involving a lot of blocking and dodging... and no reason to engage in any of it. It takes a lot of either blindness or courage to release this kind of garbage tech demo on the same platform as the actual Dark Souls games, doesn't it? Then again, the developer here couldn't even spell the name of his game properly... and I think if you need to get someone to help you do that, maybe game development is not cut out for you. It does explain, however, why they always get my order wrong at McDonalds. It looks like most of the game was lifted from code samples, asset samples and tutorials, and it's a bare bones homework assignment tier mess. The graphics aren't great... that will understandably be a turn off for a lot of gamers, and it's a big contributor to the failure of the game to attract gamers despite having no up-front cost. Gaming is a primarily visual medium…
2 found this helpful
Recommended Jun 4, 2024
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2 found this helpful
Not recommended Jul 29, 2025
It just a buggy souls like game. 1. You don't keep the upgrades you get between levels. You only get to keep the upgrades you get after every boss and the upgrades are super underwhelming 2. Its the same 2 levels over and over again. 3. The hit boxes suck.
Not recommended May 7, 2025
Wow, even for a free game, this is just coal. it's a clunky “Soulslike” combat game with no consistent hit registration, no target lock, and the attacks are simply stupid; the bash attack seemingly doesn't do anything special, and is slower and deals even less damage than the light attacks. Levels are repetitive, procedurally generated junk with no story, no purpose with the same enemy design over and over, ending with a boring boss. The visuals are cheap, the difficulty is just unfair (not fun), and it's apparent from comparing the title to the description that the game’s name is misspelled. It feels like a rushed tech demo made from tutorials. Reportedly, Steam shows it peaked at 2 players, which is abysmal numbers. Free or not, skip this. Total waste of time.
Not recommended Aug 4, 2024
It's kinda just unfun I like soulslike games but this is just difficult for the sake of being diifcult the first level starts easy and ends with you getting gangbanged in a corner just not fun just hard

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