GRAVE TITHE

💀 GRAVE TITHE — a necromancer's night shift.

The Collector is owed twelve souls by dawn, and the dead of this graveyard are the only currency he accepts. Raise them. Lead them. Bank them.

You are the tithe-collector's apprentice, alone in a moonlit churchyard with a lantern, a staff, and a debt. Hold your ground at a gravestone to raise a skeleton, then lead your rattling train into the Collector's Crypt to bank their souls. Bank twelve before the sky pales and the debt is paid.

But mind the rows. The Warden walks them — tall, pale, and patient. If it touches you, it takes a heart. If it touches your train, it taxkes a soul. And the dead you raise do not stay obedient: every skeleton turns feral on its own timer and comes for its maker. Dash through the Warden's reach, bank your dead before they turn, and never — ever — run out of night.

HOW TO PLAY

• WASD / Arrow keys — move

• Hold SPACE at a gravestone — raise the dead (keep holding until the ring fills)

• Lead your skeletons into the Crypt door to bank them — banked souls are safe, carried souls are not

• SHIFT — dash (brief, with a cooldown; you pass through the Warden safely mid-dash)

• P — pause · M — mute

• On mobile: drag to steer, hold the RAISE pad at a gravestone, DASH pad bottom-left

THE NIGHT

• 90 seconds until dawn. Bank 12 souls to win.

• Two difficulties on the title screen: NORMAL, and HARD — 60 seconds, faster turns, and a blood-red moon.

• The Warden hunts you and your train. Dash through it or keep your distance.

• Raised skeletons turn feral — bank them before they turn on you.

• 3 hearts. Lose them all, or let dawn break with the tithe unpaid, and the Collector takes you instead.

Built for Spooky 2D Jam '26 — theme: NECROMANCY. A single self-contained HTML file: canvas art and Web Audio sound, no libraries, no downloads. Keyboard and full two-thumb touch controls — raise the dead from your phone.

Created with AI coding assistance; all art and audio are generated procedurally in code at runtime.