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Sworn to the Depths is a single-player adaptation of Ironsworn: Delve, a text-driven dungeon crawl blending choose-your-own-adventure choices with RPG dice. Endless replay of perilous sites, testing fate, and perhaps triumph. Includes a full campaign about avenging a homeland against a lich, plus Lua-based modding.

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Sworn to the Depths

Sworn to the Depths is a single‑player, text‑driven dungeon crawl inspired by the Ironsworn: Delve tabletop system. It merges the feel of a choose‑your‑own‑adventure with the crunchy dice mechanics of pen‑and‑paper RPGs, delivering an endlessly replayable journey through perilous sites, tough choices, and dramatic outcomes. Each run invites you to explore, test your luck with dice rolls, respond to the results, and press on toward glory — or despair — as you chase victory time and again.

Gameplay revolves around rolling dice to overcome threats, and then choosing how to respond when a roll falters. You can push your luck, barter with fate, or adapt your plan to bend the moment to your advantage. The consequences of each decision ripple through the current delve and feed into a broader, ongoing narrative arc across multiple sessions. This structure creates a loop of discovery, risk, and reward that emphasizes imagination and narrative control as you seek to triumph over the depths.

At the heart of the game is a full campaign that follows a young adventurer bent on avenging the destruction of their homeland by an evil lich. The story is written to be approachable, guiding new players into the Delve experience while staying faithful to the spirit of Ironsworn’s dungeon exploration.

Extensive modding support opens the depths even wider. The game is designed so most content is Lua scriptable, using the same API and tooling a mod would, which means you can customize themes, domains, and assets. Full campaigns can be added as mods, creating new adventures that fit within the same rules and structure.

New to Ironsworn? This game serves as a friendly introduction to the Delve portions of the system. The in‑game tutorial doubles as a pen‑and‑paper tutorial, teaching core mechanics while you play. It’s a faithful, text‑first interpretation that emphasizes exploration, consequence, and narrative choice rather than flashy visuals.

Who is this for? Fans of interactive fiction who crave more dice and decision making, and players who want endless Delve without coordinating a tabletop group. If you’ve played Ironsworn and wished for a computer‑based Delve experience, or you simply want a solo campaign that you can pick up and play, Sworn to the Depths is made for you.

What it isn’t: it is not a virtual tabletop, not the complete Ironsworn ruleset, and not a high‑octane 3D action game. It is a single‑player, text‑driven adventure focused on dungeon exploration, narrative impact, and the satisfaction of making a story your own—powered by your imagination.

Ready your gear, light your lantern, and begin the descent. The depths await, and they won’t swear to themselves.