LYNXED Press kit
Two games, both free to start in the browser. Jump to Heaven's Mandate or XENO // BREACH.
Heaven's Mandate 天命
Heaven's Mandate (天命, Tianming) is a top-down pixel-art action roguelite drawn from Chinese cultivation lore and the five phases of Wuxing. A meditating monk took a shortcut with a tainted elixir pill, and his own qi turned against him. You descend inside your own body, chapter by chapter, to purge the corruption before your Heart Demon takes over. Five elemental orbs orbit you and react with each other, the room itself is a weapon, and the path you walk tips you toward Yin or Yang.
Fact sheet
| Full title | Heaven's Mandate (天命, tianming, “the mandate of heaven”). Early access name: Zhen Dao |
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| Developer & publisher | Lynxed Games (independent) |
| Genre | Roguelite, Action, Twin-stick shooter, Top-down, Pixel art, Xianxia |
| Status | Early access, out now in the browser |
| Platforms | Any modern browser on computer, phone or tablet. Installs to the home screen and plays offline. iOS and Android apps coming soon. |
| Price | Free to play in full while in early access; no ads, no accounts |
| Runs | A run takes 20–30 minutes and saves between floors |
| Play | https://heavensmandate.lynxedgames.com |
| Game page | lynxedgames.com/heavens-mandate |
| Contact | contact@lynxedgames.com |
Features
- Five elements. Ten reactions. Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water orbit you as a ring. Mark a foe with one, hit it with another, and they react: Steam Burst, Wildfire, Magma, Thorn Storm. Swap in the right order and you release a named technique, like Phoenix Palm.
- The room is a weapon. Fire races through dry grass. Water conducts through metal. Wood grows briar rings and bridges, earth cracks the floor and raises cover, and wind throws enemies into the walls.
- Lean into the dark. Or the light. Every floor splits into Yin rooms and Yang rooms, and the path you walk tips your balance. Neither side is right. It depends on your build.
- Listen to the walls. Hidden rooms have no crack and no glow. Shoot a wall. If it rings hollow, something is behind it. Some secrets hide a second one, a Cave-Heaven 洞天.
- Ten ways to walk the path. Drown the room as the Tide Weaver. Drag it into a cyclone as the Gale Strider. Raise the World-Tree as the Verdant Mystic. Each discipline has its own attack and its own special.
- Bosses, and spirits that lie. Each chapter ends with a boss made of your own corrupted qi. On the way: mini-bosses, treasure that springs an ambush, and trickster spirits who offer a gift. Some of them mean it.
- Come home to the mountain. Between runs you wake in a temple above the clouds. Disciples you rescued, shrines, a garden, a waterfall, and Master Xuan. And a past to piece together.
The descent
- Flesh 肉: Jin-Can Gu Mother
- Liver 肝: Goumang Wood-Fiend
- Heart 心: Zhurong Samadhi-Heart
- Spleen 脾: Houtu Earth-Colossus
- Lungs 肺: Rushou White-Tiger Bellows
- Kidneys 肾: Xuanming Xuanwu Twins
- Meridians 经络: Xiangliu Blood-Jiaolong
- Dantian 丹田: Wuxiang Tianmo, the Heart Demon
Screenshots
Captured from the game. Free to use in coverage. Click for the full-size image. Pixel art: please scale by whole numbers.
Gameplay clip (12 s, muted, vertical): loop.mp4.
XENO // BREACH
XENO // BREACH is a top-down pixel-art sci-fi horror roguelite. An alien hive has taken the starship U.S.S. Aethelgard. You deploy as a marine, alone or with AI squadmates, and sweep the ship deck by deck: breach and clear rooms, weld the vents, build sentry turrets and survive the swarm wave after wave. Your suit lamp lets you see and lets them see you.
Fact sheet
| Developer & publisher | Lynxed Games (independent) |
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| Genre | Roguelite, Shooter, Sci-fi horror, Top-down, Pixel art |
| Platforms | Any modern browser on desktop and phone. Installs to the home screen and plays offline. Android and iOS apps coming. |
| Price | Deck 1 free; full game $4.99 one-time |
| Play | https://xenobreach.lynxedgames.com |
| Previously | Released in 2026 as BLOOMFALL, a fungal-horror roguelite, and rebuilt as XENO // BREACH |
| Contact | contact@lynxedgames.com |
Features
- Your light gives you away. The suit lamp shows you the deck, and shows you to the hive. Some of them hunt by sound, some swarm to light, and one only moves in the dark.
- Deck by deck, wave by wave. Breach and clear rooms, weld hull vents shut, build auto-sentry turrets and take the turbo-lift down through eight decks to the Hive Reactor.
- Solo, or bring a squad. Deploy alone, or bring two AI marines who form up and fight beside you; raise the squad to three mid-run. Pick an operative and one of five weapon classes before you go.
- Fights with weight. Dodge at the last instant for slow motion and a double-damage riposte. Break a brute’s poise to stagger it. Chain kills into Bloodrush.
Screenshots
Captured from the game. Free to use in coverage. Click for the full-size image.
Keys and contact
Writers, streamers and creators: email contact@lynxedgames.com for a XENO // BREACH full-game code, questions or an interview. Heaven's Mandate is free to play in full while in early access.