It’s always interesting to see the creativity that can emerge when teams try to create something special. In the case of the team at RipRed, they decided to turn a “kids’ drawings” to life in the upcoming Roguelike RPG game Graphite. As revealed yesterday via press release, the clever turn-based title will arrive on Steam on July 27th.

We weren’t kidding about the “kids’ drawing” theme either, as the synopsis for the game reveals the truth behind this 2D world:

“Graphite lives inside a kid’s school notebook, drawn into existence one late-night sketch at a time. The world is ruled by paper and household junk, where everyday objects are repurposed by imagination into items. The heroes are beautifully crafted pen-and- ink characters who embark on quests, forge alliances, face prophecies, and take every bit of it completely seriously. The monsters they face are drawn with the same care and conviction, every one of them wholly unaware they are figments of a child’s mind.

That dramatic irony is Graphite’s beating heart: a world of genuine craft and consequence, held inside something as humble as a spiral-bound notebook.”

With its mix of RPG and Roguelike elements, alongside some Tarot-style cards for fun, each adventure will truly be unique, and you can build up your team to be as diverse or focused as you desire, so long as you feel it can get them through the quest alive! The game’s features include:

• Seven Heroes: Seven playable heroes, each with a distinct personality, playstyle, and narrative arc
• Timeline Combat: Timeline-based tactical combat with a Break system that rewards reading enemy intentions and striking with precision
• Limitless Builds: Unlimited artifact stacking for builds that range from methodical to beautifully chaotic, and enemies who can build right alongside you
• Choose Your Path: A tarot-inspired adventure deck of illustrated, narrated events with party-influenced branching choices
• Ever-Evolving Runs: Procedurally generated enemies and encounters that grow alongside your progress across every run
• Story Rich: A layered narrative where the fantasy world and the real world quietly reflect each other

The title is published by Indie.Io.