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Metaphor Games · Published by Shoreline Games · Official site ↗
Very Positive — 87% positive (177 reviews) · 18 achievements
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
Loot, bribe, gamble, survive. The dice will be your savior or your downfall in this story-driven RPG. Every roll matters when trying to uncover cosmic horrors and outwit megacorps. Pray your next roll won’t be your last.
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Adventure, Indie, RPG · 2026 · More £5 - £15 games
Embark on a tale of survival and intrigue as you loot, bribe, and gamble to uncover the truth. In Celestial Return, your choices and rolls determine whether you thrive or succumb to the cosmic threats lurking in this adventure-rich indie RPG from Metaphor Games.
About this game
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About the Game
A dying city. A string of suicides. A detective with nothing left to lose.
Netherveil City eats the weak. Its streets bleed neon, its corpses crawl back to life, and its secrets? They'll gnaw through your sanity. Step into the worn boots of Detective Howard. Armed with a rusted badge, a sentient rose that won't shut up, and a pocketful of stolen dice.
Explore the city. Interrogate the dead. Expose the c*rpos.
Investigate. Make choices. Loot the dice. Roll the dice.
And survive. (Optional.)
Dice are oxygen. They keep you alive. Earn 'em, spend 'em, lose 'em. Hoard too long, and opportunities vanish. Roll recklessly, and resources burn.
There’s no perfect build. No power fantasies. Just survival... barely.
Your choices build character. Your character builds choices.
Intelligence picks locks in silence. Virtue pleads for mercy. Foolishness laughs at the abyss.
These fragments clash, corrupt, and rewrite your path mid-conversation. Choose your poison and deal with the consequences.
A hand-shattered art style. Where manga’s precision meets the raw nerve of American comics. Ripping pages from legends like Blame!, Biomega, Akira, and Berserk. Our artistry aims to evoke the same depth and intensity that made these series iconic.
Gear up for an auditory assault. Noir Jazz, Cyberpunk Techno, Death Metal. This isn't background noise. Sonic warfare.
Heroes don't last long in Netherveil. This is a manifesto for the forgotten, the erased, the expendable, those never given a chance. It’s about those who were never meant to survive, yet somehow still do. It’s about the existential terror of being alive in a world ruled by forces you can’t see. It’s about resistance.
“I’m here, and I won’t go quietly.”
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: 1.8GHz Dual-Core CPU
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Integrated Graphics
- Storage: 8 GB available space
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: 1.8GHz Dual-Core CPU
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Integrated Graphics
- Storage: 8 GB available space
Supported Languages
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
Still Standing! A Little Update From Us
Hey everyone,Earlier today, mikeydsc made a discussion post just to check if we were okay because we’ve been a little quiet lately. (Can we spam the comments with “Thank you, mikeydsc”?Read full article on Community Announcements (Whiplash)Patch NotesOfficial
Patch 1.0.6 is Live
Another patch just dropped! Hey everyone!We've fixed one of the biggest headaches in the game: the startup bug where the game could get stuck on a gray square the first time you launched it. This should finally be gone! If you still run into it for any reason, please let us know. We're keeping a close eye on it.We've also tweaked the dice balance a bit more. In particular, the section before entering Elysium Tower in Book 2 has been rebalanced. If you're low on dice, you now also have the option to postpone entering the tower and continue exploring for a while before starting the quest.A couple of Quest Log fixes too:Fixed the Quest Log getting stuck after loading a save.Fixed an incorrect quest entry showing up during the Skin Deep questline.We've also made a number of performance improvements, so it should run a bit smoother overall.As always, thank you all so much for the bug reports, feedback, and patience. You guys are AMAZING.Read full article on Community Announcements (Whiplash)AnnouncementsOfficial
Week One: Survived
It’s been one week since our game hit the wild.For four years, this game was almost our entire lives. Every evening after work, every weekend, every holiday Bilge (Whiplash) and I poured absolutely everything we had into this project. Seeing you all actually play it, and care about it... has been the most overwhelming, beautiful experience of our lives.The Bumps in the RoadOf course, not everything went flawlessly. We had more bugs than we'd like. Some systems misbehaved, and players rightly pointed out continuity hiccups, awkward pacing, or spots where we could have done better.As a result, this week has been a blur of patches. We’ve smashed progression blockers, fixed save issues, ironed out dialogue bugs, added more collectible Dice, buffed items, and tweaked the Dice economy. We know the balance still isn't quite where it needs to be, but we are wrestling with those systems every single day. The whiteboard is still full, but we're excited to keep crossing things off. Thank you for your incredible patience while we get it right.The HighlightsThe best part of this whole week? Watching the community form around this game. I've never felt such a deep sense of belonging.A Massive Community W: To the absolute legend who took it upon themselves to fully localize the game into Russian. you completely blew our minds. We never in a million years thought something like that would happen. Just... wow. We are so incredibly humbled and grateful. You can find their work here: PlayStation Store is LIVE! Console players, we've got news: our PS Store page is officially open! The page still needs some polishing, but we wanted to spread the word early so you can go hit that wishlist button. https://store.playstation.com/tr-tr/concept/10020364Known IssuesWe're still investigating a few issues that haven't been fully solved yet:Quest Log: Sometimes the quest log appears to lock itself visually. This is only a visual issue, your actual quest progress is not affected. We're still tryin...Read full article on Community Announcements (Whiplash)Patch NotesOfficial
Patch 1.0.5 is Live
Another patch is live!ChangesImproved the reliability of save/load in a few edge cases.Fixed several dialogue issues and typos reported by the community.Updated the Dice tutorial to make it clearer that Dice are consumable resources.Added more collectible Dice to several scenes throughout the game.Read full article on Community Announcements (Whiplash)Patch NotesOfficial
Patch 1.0.4 is Live
Hey everyone!Another small update is live!ChangesAdded an autosave at the end of every Book. The game already autosaves at the beginning of every scene, but we've also added an autosave at the end of each Book to make sure you have a more reliable checkpoint before moving on.Fixed an Insight leveling bug. There was a bug that allowed Insight skills to level beyond the intended maximum of Level 3. This has now been fixed.Thanks again for all the bug reports and feedback. We really appreciate everyone taking the time to help usRead full article on Community Announcements (Whiplash)
