Rán's Wake

Early build · Free · Windows

Rán's Wake

Take the relic. Keep moving.

A top-down arcade salvage shooter inside a flooding Norse-tech shipwreck. Wake the artifact, survive the waves, and reach the pad before the hold goes under.

Download for Windows

Latest build · Windows 10/11 64-bit · zip

  • Top-down shooter
  • Five weapons
  • Rising water
  • Four holds
  • Mouse & keyboard
// CONTRACT

How a run goes

The rune-lit Chain-Scale relic on its pedestal in the middle of the Bilge Deck
01

Wake the relic

Every hold hides a Chain-Scale. Touch it and the guild's clock starts: waves spawn, the pumps fail, and the water begins to climb.

Eira Voss firing a pulse blaster at drones and an armored warden across a flooded deck
02

Fight in the flood

The water is not scenery. It slows you, drags loose scrap toward the drain, and rises with every wave you clear. Hold the high ground or keep moving.

The field workshop armory: five weapon families, a runic charge launcher with its reinforced core installed, and suit upgrades
03

Salvage and refit

Break crates and enemies for scrap, then spend it at the terminal: unlock a new weapon, install its module, or harden the suit. Everything you buy carries to the next hold.

ExtractReach the pad before the four-minute window closes. Then go deeper.
Five weaponsStart with the Pulse Blaster and Runic Charge. Buy the other three with scrap.
High groundPlatforms are real steps up, reached by ramps. The water is shallower there.
One runFour holds back to back. Die and the contract starts over.
// FIELD WORKSHOP

Three more ways to survive the flood

The Pulse Blaster and Runic Charge come with the suit. Scrap buys the rest, one at a time, and each takes an upgrade module.

A violet arc from the Arc Welder striking an enemy, with sparks on the drones it chained to Arc Welder

Hold to chain lightning

The arc hits the nearest enemy in front of you and jumps to three more. Anything standing in the flood takes more and conducts it further.

The mint cone of the Tractor Beam reaching across the hold, a slam ring charged at its tip Tractor Beam

Pull, then slam

Haul loose scrap across the hold, drag drones into your line of fire, and slow the heavies. Hold it a second and let go to slam the tip.

Three proximity mines with glowing orange trigger rings around the operative as an Iron Warden closes in Mine Layer

Make them walk into it

Drop proximity mines where the pack will come through. Three stay live. The blast breaks crates and walls, and it does not care whose boots are nearby.

// SITE SURVEY

Four holds, each worse than the last

Hold 7 in cold steel light: drones and an Iron Warden close in on the operative near the armory terminal
01Hold 7. Cold steel and salvage lamps. The artifact wakes and the water starts.
The Bilge Deck in murky green light, two long bulkheads forming lanes across the hold
02Bilge Deck. Bulkheads channel the water. Use the islands.
The Engine Gallery glowing furnace orange around a raised machinery block
03Engine Gallery. The engine block is high ground, and a trap.
The Keel in deep indigo and cyan rune light, Iron Wardens advancing between cargo stacks
04The Keel. Already flooding when you arrive. Everything at once.
// THREATS

Enemies that hunt like a pack

Wake Drones

They stage, then rush

Drones wait out of sight until the pack is assembled, then come in from several sides at once.

Tidecasters

They lead their shots

Casters find a line of sight, fire volleys that cover your strafe, then relocate before you can answer.

Iron Wardens

They charge through cover

Armored front, telegraphed charge, slow to turn. Flank them or bring the Runic Charge.

// FIELD KIT

Download and play

Download for Windows

Latest build · Windows 10/11 64-bit · zip

  1. Extract the zip somewhere you own, such as Documents or Desktop. Not Program Files: the game updates itself in place.
  2. Run RansWake/RansWake.exe. The build is not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may say it protected your PC. Choose More info, then Run anyway.
  3. Stay current. New builds download in the background while you play, verified against their published SHA-256. When one is ready the game asks: Install and restart or Later. A failed install rolls back. (Builds 66 to 69: pause once and choose Update.)

Controls

WASD
Move
Mouse
Aim, left button to fire
Space
Dash
1-5 / Q E
Switch weapon
F
Relic, terminal, extraction
Esc
Pause

System

  • Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit
  • DirectX 11 graphics card
  • About 230 MB of disk space
  • Tested at 1440p, 60 fps on an RTX 3060
// TRANSMISSIONS

Changelog

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All builds on GitHub

// STATUS

An early build, played end to end

All four holds and all five weapons are playable from the first relic to the last extraction. Balance and effects are still being pushed. Builds land here as they are ready.

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Download for Windows