Graftling — Build a Body. Reach the Surface.

BUILD A BODY // REACH THE SURFACE

A dark body-horror action roguelite. You are the experiment that got out of the vat. Now get out of the building.

THE STORY

Meridian Bodyworks built bodies for people who could afford new ones. Deep in Sublevel 9, it also built the things that didn't work — and filed them away, floor after floor, in vats and drawers and cold rooms.

Tonight, everything else is on fire. Nobody noticed that Vat 13 had been draining for six minutes. Nobody noticed the thing inside it open its eyes.

You are Specimen 13: an unfinished creature with no limbs it was assigned and no permission to exist. Between you and the storm above are twenty-five floors of abandoned experiments — loose, hungry, and very interested in the fact that something important just escaped.

The exits are above. Survive the failures. Take what you need from them — literally: graft their parts onto your body — and decide, stitch by stitch, how much of you stays human. The Director is watching. He thinks you're the one that finally worked.

THE EXPERIMENT

Five specimen classes

Fighter, Mage, Bastion, Lifebinder, and Broodcaller — each a different way to survive the ascent. The Mage channels fire, frost, and lightning through a living staff; the Broodcaller grows autonomous homunculi; the Lifebinder turns damage dealt into heals for co-op partners.

Graft your own monster

Every part you tear from the facility's failures can be stitched onto your body. Needle spitters, marrow repeaters, second hearts — your weapon layout is your anatomy, and it grows stranger every floor.

A 25-floor ascent

Fight upward through sublevels, gestation vats, cold storage, the rooftop, and the perimeter fence. Every fifth floor a 'successful' sibling experiment is sent down to correct you.

Humanity is a dial

The more machine and monster you graft on, the less human you remain. The facility, the survivors in the Refuge, and the ending itself react to what you chose to become.

The Refuge between deaths

Termination is not the end. Escaped failures shelter below the lab — mature your starting grafts, reinforce future bodies, and step back into the vat.

Optional couch co-op

A second escapee can drop in on a gamepad at any moment. Team ascents run hotter by default — and you can revisit lower floors to help out or farm without risking your own climb.

A storm that never ends

Permanent rain-lashed night, thunder you feel in the pad, and a soundtrack that turns heavier with every act — from sludge doom in the sublevels to full speed-metal fury at the fence.

LIVE FEED

Fighter on Easy — sector combat, biomass pickups, and the graft bench between waves.

Graftling gameplay — fighter class combat on Easy difficulty

FIELD RECORDINGS

Graftling main menu with storm key art and five specimen class descriptions — Choose your specimen class before the ascent begins.

Mage class combat on Floor 2 with fire, frost, tempest, and lance abilities — The Mage channels elemental power through a single living staff.

Experiment protocol selection screen with Easy, Challenge, and Mad Scientist difficulty cards — Pick your experiment protocol. Risk pays in biomass.

Top-down combat in the flooded sublevels of the facility — Floor by floor, the storm gets closer.

The Refuge — a hidden shelter below the failures' wing, lit by a lantern — The Refuge: below the failures' wing.

Vat 13 draining in a dark laboratory as alarms flash — Vat 13 has been draining for six minutes.

Graftling is in active development by noskills.studio. The vat is still draining.