Lost in the Deep

Lost in the Deep is a game about isolation, survival, and perseverance even when faced with the inevitability of our own demise.

You play as the last survivor of an expedition of dwarves who set out to restore the Kingdom Under the Mother Mountain, the legendary dwarven city from which all dwarves have come and was lost a millennia ago. However, after months of exploring it and restoring part of those structures, your band unwittingly set loose an ancient evil that had been asleep in the depths of the mountain. With it, the entity brought forth the legions of chaos and, one-by-one, you lost your companions, brothers, and sisters, in horrible incidents that still haunt your dreams.

With your heart filled with fear and desperation, you seek a way out of these cursed halls. Your band never found a map, and the one you were making was lost in a battle against the minions of the Evil in the Shadows. You don’t know if you can find the stairs to the surface, but you will keep going, fighting for survival and to—one day—tell the story of your people.

Lost in the Deep was inspired by The Wretched and Sealed Library games using the Wretched and Alone SRD engine. It’s also inspired by the Lord of the Rings trilogy written by J. R. R. Tolkien, especially the history of the dwarven expedition to Moria and the encounter with the Balrog in its depths. I am sure the works of other fantasy writers and my experience with dungeon crawling games will seep through as well.