ENGULF

Press kit · a free 15-minute blob-evolution roguelike, in the browser

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Fact sheet

Title: ENGULF
Developer: ENGULF (solo developer, Italy)
Release: Live now, September 2026
Platform: Any modern web browser, desktop and mobile. No download, no account.
Price: Free. Optional paid revives; nothing gated.
Genre: Roguelike · action · arcade (bullet-heaven pacing)
Session length: 15 minutes per run
Input: Keyboard (WASD / arrows, Space to lunge) or touch
Website: engulfgame.com
Press contact: [email protected]
Social: Facebook page

Description

One line: You are a blob. You eat things. Everything you swallow makes you stranger.

ENGULF is a 15-minute roguelike that runs in the browser. You start as a blob in a dark sea of creatures. Bump enemies to weaken them, swallow them to steal their DNA, and grow their wings, claws, spikes and lightning. Every level opens an EVOLVE draft: express a new strand, amplify one you carry, or take a mutation. Two developed strands can be spliced into a hybrid ability that never existed. Survive the swarm, and devour the apex that arrives at the end of the run.

Under the hood the simulation is deterministic: every leaderboard run is replayed on the server before it counts, so the board holds only verified runs. It is built in TypeScript on Canvas2D with no engine, and it loads in seconds.

Features

Swallow enemies to steal their DNA; the body visibly grows the organs of what it ate.
EVOLVE every level: express, amplify or mutate.
SPLICE two strands into a hybrid ability (Static Discharge + Singularity Pull becomes Tesla Collapse).
Five stages with their own fauna and hazards, an apex boss you can eat, and a verified leaderboard.
15-minute runs, daily and endless modes, keyboard or touch, no download, no account.

Trailer

27 seconds, real gameplay, 60 fps, music, no voice-over. Vertical (9:16) and square (1:1) versions.

Vertical 720×1280 (7 MB) Square 720×720 (5 MB)

Screenshots

ENGULF: Tesla Collapse, a spliced hybrid, opens a singularity well in Null Foundry — Tesla Collapse, a spliced hybrid (Static Discharge + Singularity Pull)

ENGULF: the blob, close up, with a swallowed grub inside it — The swallow: a grub taken whole

ENGULF: the evolved blob wearing wings, crystals, a fist and lightning — Wear what you eat: wings, crystals, a fist, lightning

ENGULF: the EVOLVE draft screen with two mutations and a splice card — The EVOLVE draft: mutate, or splice Tesla Collapse

ENGULF: chain lightning arcs through a Shallows swarm — Chain lightning through the swarm

ENGULF: the Magma Colossus and its orange floor attacks in Ember Reach — The apex: the Magma Colossus

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Logo & art

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Quotes you may use

"Everything you swallow makes you stranger."

"Bump to weaken, lunge to eat, splice to become something new. A run is fifteen minutes and the apex at the end is edible."

Permission

Everything on this page may be used freely in coverage, videos and streams of ENGULF, including monetised ones. No prior approval needed. Questions and review requests: [email protected].