Ritual Runes was made at an 8 hour game jam in June 2025.

The jam theme was ritual. The only changes that I made to the project after the jam was completed is the addition of a tutorial and audio.

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Use runes to build and complete rituals. Keep an eye on how close you are to correctly completing the ritual as your ritual energy will slowly run out.

Successful rituals unlock more power and provide you with additional runes.

The Idea

Initially, the idea was to have a way you could collect new runes and then use them with a recipe/spell that would hint at which runes needed to be included in the ritual spell. This would be assisted by each rune having special properties that you could only discover by using them in a ritual (trial and error). However, with only 8 hours to make this game, I ended up needing to simplify it immensely. Doing a take on Wordle, I put together a simple rune combination game.