Celestial Return is a role-playing video game developed by Metaphor Games and published by Shoreline Games.

About

Celestial Return is a story-driven RPG where dice are your bullets, your bribes, and your last breath. Loot, gamble, and survive a reality-crumbling city. Uncover cosmic horrors, outwit corrupted megacorps, and pray your next roll isn’t your last.

Story

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.)

Luck Isn’t Luxury. It’s Currency.

Dice aren’t just tools. They’re oxygen. 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 Mind is the Battlefield

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.

Manifesto for the Expendable

This isn’t a story about heroes. It’s 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.”

Key Features

• Doomed Gameplay Loop – Earn and spend your dice while leveling up your own personality, to gain the edge needed to survive conversational combat. It’s sometimes violent, but always desperate.
• Simple Currency – Dice aren’t just tools. They’re oxygen. Earn ’em, spend ’em, lose ’em. Hoard them too long, and opportunities vanish. Roll recklessly, and resources burn.
• Welcome the Crossroads – Discover a vast sci-fi story, rich with twists, turns, mind-bending crossroads, and a branching narrative fully shaped by your decisions.
• Sounds and Visuals to Bleed For – Immerse yourself in a completely hand-drawn world where manga’s precision meets the raw nerve of American comics
• Choices Matter – Your choices are the weapons and your mind the battlefield. Decide the outcome with each small step. Just remember: Intelligence picks locks in silence. Virtue pleads for mercy. Foolishness laughs at the abyss.