Towards The Pantheon

Towards The Pantheon

Connor O.R.T. Linning · May 16, 2018 · Adventure, RPG, Indie, Casual, Strategy

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About Towards The Pantheon

The Story


A group known as The Sworn Light have been gaining power throughout the world through divide and conquer tactics. While the humans, felines, electropunks, and ghosts argue amongst themselves, The Sworn Light are taking advantage of each situation in order to take ultimate control. One day Keltoi village chief Wuotan summons his strongest warrior Freyja to embark on a long and dangerous journey. Her mission is to trek towards The Pantheon to defeat the source of The Sworn Light before the world falls into chaos. Along the way Freyja and her party will battle deadly enemies, make new friends, and encountered long forgotten horrors!

The Game


Towards The Pantheon is a turn based 2D RPG with unique twists on the classic formula. Gone are genre standards of elemental types, elixirs, elves, inns, and generic love stories. Instead players of Towards The Pantheon will ride hamsters, journey through a survival horror inspired mansion, collect dead memories, eat copious amounts of sushi, and partake in regular chats around the campfire.

Features include:
  • Over 10 hours of gameplay including sidequests and myriads of secrets.
  • Unlockable NewGame+ mode and cheat codes for additional replay value.
  • Ability to switch between party members in the overworld to use their unique mechanics.
  • An eclectic original soundtrack consisting of over 65 songs which incorporate elements from orchestral, noise, drone, breakbeat, and chiptune genres.
  • A massive fully connected overworld with the ability to ride Speedsters to cut down on backtracking.
  • Turn based combat system where each character has unique battle stats and mechanics.
  • Collectible cards and combos found throughout the world that can be used during battle.
  • More than 10 regions to explore including lush forests, cities full of kitties, electropunk metropolises, barren wastelands, and a dark mysterious mansion.
  • Dialog and support systems that allow for further character development and stat boosts.
  • A unique and complex overarching story line that ties together all subplots and backstories.
  • Over 45 unique enemies and a dozen boss battles.

Development


Development of Towards The Pantheon began in 2016 when lead developer Connor O.R.T. Linning set out to create an RPG that incorporated elements of adventure and horror genres. Soon afterwards Leandro Tokarevski joined in to create the pixel art using a palette of only 16 colors resulting in a vibrant and distinct world full of charm. Towards The Pantheon is the result of big dreams and two grueling years of hard work. In October of 2017 the prequel game Towards The Pantheon: Escaping Eternity was released for free on Steam to great reception.

Towards The Pantheon — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player
Controller
Full controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

DLC & expansions

What Steam players say

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

✦ AI summary

Towards The Pantheon receives sharply divided opinions from players. Supporters praise its classic SNES-style action-RPG gameplay, engaging story with moral depth, dynamic combat system with character switching, pleasant soundtrack, and exploration-focused world design. Critics complain about simplistic mechanics lacking meaningful choice, generic anime character design, overly difficult balancing sections, shallow combat without type advantages, and feel the game plays more like an unfinished tech demo with amateurish pixel art assets.

Recommended Aug 10, 2026
Towards The Pantheon is an imaginative independent role-playing game that takes recognizable ideas from classic turn-based RPGs and reshapes them into something considerably stranger. Developed and published by Connor O.R.T. Linning, the game combines traditional party-based adventuring with comedy, horror, exploration, puzzles, and deliberately unconventional world-building. Its pixel-art appearance immediately suggests a retro RPG, but the adventure does not simply imitate older genre standards. Instead, it uses those familiar foundations to support a world filled with unusual civilizations, eccentric situations, darker surprises, and characters whose abilities influence both combat and exploration. The central story takes place in a world divided by conflict. Humans, felines, electropunks, ghosts, and other groups struggle with their own disputes while a dangerous organization known as The Sworn Light takes advantage of the instability. Its divide-and-conquer strategy allows its influence to grow while everyone else remains preoccupied with their differences. The adventure begins when Wuotan, chief of the Keltoi village, chooses the warrior Freyja for an important mission. She …
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Not recommended Jan 30, 2026
"Towards The Pantheon" is a very poorly made "I Can't Believe It's Not RPG Maker" JRPG train wreck with very poorly done pixelcrap assets (that look worse than just flipping RPG Maker assets) and of course you can't have an amateur pixelcrap JRPG without a cringey high school anime club dropout fanfiction involving the developers imagainary girlfriend. This time the imaginary girlfriend is called Freyja, who is a completely generic anime fanclub thing. The story revolves around Freyja and her party being summoned to defeat the source of The Sworn Light, which is gaining power throughout the world, which is a pretty terrible plot, but what should we expect. I guess if I wrote fan-fictions about my imaginary girlfriend I'd be terrified of light. This feels more like a tech demo or a project smacked together hurriedly to try make a kind of minimum viable product just good enough to pass the developers unambitious idea and shove it into Steam Direct to see if you can actually pay $100 and publish junk through Steam Direct. Yeah, you can. Is this good for gamers? Nope. This features really godawful pixelcrap "art" instead of real graphics. It's hard to say if this was because the…
Recommended Nov 17, 2025
interesting game
Recommended Nov 4, 2025
Игра 'Towards The Pantheon' – это увлекательное приключение в жанре action-RPG с пиксельной графикой, выполненное в духе классических игр SNES. Сюжет, основанный на конфликте различных рас и древних богах, обладает интересными поворотами и заставляет задуматься о моральных дилеммах. Боевая система динамичная и разнообразная, с возможностью переключения между персонажами и использования их уникальных способностей. Нельзя не отметить приятный саундтрек, идеально дополняющий атмосферу игры. Мир 'Towards The Pantheon' полон секретов и скрытых троп, побуждающих к исследованию каждого уголка. Однако, игра не лишена недостатков. Персонажи, хотя и обладают яркими индивидуальностями, иногда кажутся шаблонными. Кроме того, местами игра становится неоправданно сложной, что может отпугнуть некоторых игроков. В целом, 'Towards The Pantheon' – это достойный представитель жанра, который придется по вкусу любителям классических RPG, но стоит быть готовым к некоторым трудностям. Рекомендую к ознакомлению.
Recommended Aug 5, 2025
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Not recommended Mar 30, 2025
I want to like it but it's too simple--there isn't enough true choice in the game. I made it through getting the second character and a boss; combat has no type advantage afaik. Leveling up meant working towards the next special node, no real choice. Cute game, good for newer gamers!

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