In developmentAction RoguelitePixel Art
The Only Eye
A pixel art action game with 20 playable Forms, different ability combinations, permanent progression, and its own post-campaign content.
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The Only Eye
In development
Action RoguelitePixel Art
A pixel art action game with 20 playable Forms, each with its own abilities and combat style. Find relics, combine abilities, and develop your character in different ways every time you play.
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The game
20 Forms to play your way.
The Only Eye is an action roguelite where each Form works like a different character class. Some fight up close, while others attack from a distance, use magic, or have mechanics of their own.
As you play, you find relics, improve your attributes, and create different ability combinations. New Forms, systems, and permanent upgrades unlock as you progress.
Even after you finish the campaign, a new progression system is waiting for you.
Every Form plays differently. You decide how to combine what you find along the way.
Media
See the game in action
Images from the current version of The Only Eye, showing combat, playable Forms, progression, bosses, and some of the game's systems.
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Current content
What's already in the game
- 20 Playable Forms
- 20 Masteries
- 2 Campaigns
- 5 Major final bosses
Content available in the current version. The Only Eye is still in development.
Forms
20 playable Forms, each with its own style.
Forms are the playable classes in The Only Eye. Each has its own attacks, abilities, range, and mechanics, completely changing how you play.
Each Form also has a Mastery, a specialisation that lets you explore a new version of its playstyle.
Some of the available Forms
- Mago do Único Olho
- Arqueiro Astral
- Paladino do Eclipse
- Guerreiro Rúnico
- Ladino das Sombras
- Berserker Carmesim
- Monge da Íris Vazia
- Necromante das Cinzas
- Bruxo do Abismo
- Alquimista Errante
- Artífice Arcano
- Bardo da Ruptura
- Cavaleiro de Sangue
- Cronomante
- Oráculo da Lua Partida
These are some of the 20 Forms in the game.
Combinations
Create different combinations every time you play.
As you play, you find relics and upgrades that increase your attributes or change how your abilities work.
Imprint Fusion takes this further: it lets you combine the active ability of one Form with the passive ability of another.
There are many possible combinations, and figuring out which combinations work best is part of the strategy.
Progression
Two progression trees.
During the campaign, the Iris Tree provides permanent upgrades that stay with you every time you play.
Once you reach the post-campaign content, the Iris Constellation unlocks a separate progression system with new paths, specialisations, and choices that can bring both advantages and disadvantages.
Campaigns
Two campaigns with different challenges.
The main campaign introduces the world, bosses, and original progression of The Only Eye.
After that, the Reverberated Campaign lets you take on the journey again at a higher difficulty, with special enemies, new boss phases, and resistances that call for new strategies.
Post-campaign
The game continues after the campaign.
After completing the campaigns, you unlock O Grande Olhar, a new stage of progression for players who want to keep developing their characters and face greater challenges.
There, you enter Echoes, take on increasingly difficult maps, encounter new modifiers, and follow a progression path that is separate from the campaign.
O Grande Olhar: Echoes
Every map can change the challenge.
Echoes are the maps in O Grande Olhar. Each one has a region, an objective, a boss, a threat level, and its own rewards.
They can also gain modifiers that increase the number of enemies, change the map's conditions, or improve the available rewards.
Greater challenges can bring greater rewards.
Final bosses
Five major bosses await at the end of the progression.
The greatest challenges in O Grande Olhar are five special bosses designed to test the ability combinations you use and the progress you have made throughout the game.
Projects
What BitRoot is building
There is one project today. The structure was built for the ones that follow.
The Only Eye is BitRoot's first root.
The studio
BitRoot
BitRoot started with a simple idea: get a game out of my head and onto a screen.
Bit comes from the digital — from pixels, from the small pieces that add up to entire worlds. Root comes from roots: from what starts small, grows slowly, and finds its own way.
Today BitRoot is a Brazilian independent studio run by Alessandro Palermo, making original pixel art games.
- Bit
- The digital. The pixel. The smallest piece a world is made of.
- Root
- The root. What starts small, grows, and finds its own way.
Behind BitRoot
Alessandro Palermo
Solo developer
My name is Alessandro Palermo. Before I started building worlds in pixel art, I worked in marketing, and I've spent more than eight years doing motion design.
The Only Eye started as a personal idea. Over time it grew well past what I imagined and turned into a project where I touch nearly every part of development: story, systems, gameplay, classes, progression, art direction — everything that helps this world take shape.
BitRoot came out of that same process: a place to turn ideas that only existed in my head into games other people can explore.
Alessandro Palermo
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Behind the scenes, new systems, gameplay changes and whatever is being built show up first on the studio's and the game's channels.
BitRoot's channels will be announced soon.
Steam
The Only Eye is in development.
A wishlist is the most direct way to hear about the release.
The Steam page isn't live yet.Contact
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For press, content creators, partnerships or any professional conversation, send a message on BitRoot's Instagram.
The professional contact channel will be announced soon.