GILDED REAPER / THE QUICK GUIDE
Play Death. Leap the gaps, chain scythe attacks and dash through danger in a hand-inked solo action platformer. Thirteen souls are overdue. You have a job to do.
Cross five strange worlds: a churchyard, the hothouse at Mortlake, Mortlake Hall, a frozen mere and the opera beneath the city. New terrain, enemies and abilities keep the journey moving.
New Ledger starts a fresh campaign; Continue keeps your saved progress. Choose an unlocked stage from the Ledger, then confirm its introduction card.
Leave Race a ghost set to None for ordinary solo play. Explore, collect teeth, strike the named Overdue souls and reach the gate. There is no ghost to follow and no demo to watch first.
YOUR FIRST RUN
These are optional extras. The whole campaign is yours to play solo.
01 / WATCH A FALLIBLE RUN
Hesitates, explores, collects teeth, and sometimes dies. Then she rises again. She plays a little better than a beginner: a time you can reach early, or an easy ghost to beat once you find your feet.
Title screen → Watch the Ledger → The Mourner
02 / FOLLOW THE FAST ROUTE
A clean, decisive run towards the gate by a strong player: dashes, double jumps, wall jumps and the sickle used where they save time, optional fights skipped. She is the fastest ghost on every stage, and the time to chase.
Title screen → Watch the Ledger → The Swift Undertaking
Watch a route through the whole game. All three pilots can clear all 13 stages, including the final boss. The demonstrations advance through the campaign and loop, so you can leave one playing during a stream break.
They use the game's movement and combat rules; different runs can still go differently.
03 / COLLECT EVERYTHING
The 100% run. She earns her tools, then revisits all thirteen stages for every tooth, heart and named soul, and defeats every foe placed in each stage. Deaths count; this is a complete route, not a flawless one, and the baseline for the 100% category.
Title screen → Watch the Ledger → The Gilded Collector
What 100% means. The scorecard's Stage collection percentage measures teeth, hearts, the Overdue (including the final boss's soul) and every placed foe defeated at least once in the visit.
A heart you touch at full health still counts, and stays to heal you later; a foe that returns after you Rise again need not be fought twice.
04 / TAKE THE SCYTHE
Now you play. A translucent recorded Reaper is your pace-setter, with a live ahead/behind readout and an edge marker when she is off-screen.
Ghosts appear where a compatible recording is available. They are recorded runs, not live opponents. Normal races save progress; taking over a demonstration does not.
Open Scores & ghosts from the title, Ledger, pause or results screen. Choose a public alias: your sign-in identity stays private. Normal play saves progress to your account and records lifetime teeth and lifetime deaths automatically, including unfinished attempts.
Start a New Ledger for ranked Any% or 100% campaign times. Any% clears all thirteen stages; 100% also collects every tooth, heart and named soul and defeats every placed foe in each stage. Revisits, retries and abandoned attempts add gameplay time. Only runs the server records live, as you play, are ranked, and each board shows every player’s best run. If the game cannot reach your account it says NOT RECORDING on screen, so you never grind for a time that will not count. Resumed saves and New Game+ contribute lifetime totals; watching or taking over a demonstration does not.
Watch stage ghosts beside recorded runs, or export your own and import a friend's JSON file. Imported ghosts are for watching, never ranked submissions. Playback shows recorded movement over static platforms. A replay or server record does not prove unaided play.
KEEP THIS BESIDE YOU
| Action | Keys |
|---|---|
| Move | ← → or A D |
| Jump | Z, Space, W or ↑ |
| Scythe / air swing | X, J or K |
| Throw Boomerang Sickle | C or I (once acquired) |
| Dash | Shift or L |
| Drop through a platform | ↓ + jump |
| Pause / resume | P or Esc |
| Mute / art mode | M / F2 |
Menus: arrows or WASD to navigate; Enter or attack to choose; Esc to go back.
Standard gamepad: stick / D-pad move, A jump, X scythe, Y throw, B / RB dash, Start pause.
Make yourself comfortable: Settings or the pause menu offers reduced motion, art mode, sound, narration and music volume. Play with a keyboard or gamepad; there are no on-screen touch movement controls.
The dead can wait.
Your next run needn't.