Dedalium

About

Dedalium is a turn-based strategy RPG that blends resource management with tactical combat. You build and upgrade gear through battles and missions, collecting new equipment from randomized boxes to customize your playstyle. The game splits time between strategic planning and real-time decision-making as you navigate a world where every choice affects your progression. Single-player campaigns focus on survival and base-building while multiplayer modes add competitive layers, letting you clash with others over control of Dedalium energy sources. Set in a fractured digital landscape, the game’s story explores themes of internet decay and human conflict through a cyberpunk lens. What sets it apart is its browser-based accessibility, allowing quick sessions without lengthy downloads. Community feedback highlights the depth of its gear system and the tension of multiplayer matches, though some note a steep learning curve. With over 10,000 copies sold and a 4.3/5 rating on indie forums, Dedalium appeals to players who enjoy slow-burn strategies and lore-driven progression.

Storyline

The Internet, humanity's greatest revolution, gave way to a new kind of communication, a new and unique way of life. Social media was the main focus of all human relationships, bringing people from different places together in a great peaceful community. But something was formed under that idyllic facade of freedom. Junk emails, spam, deleted comments, neutralized viruses ... The other side of the truth, which always went unnoticed, was accumulating a lot of waste. And... unexpectedly, from that compressed amount of corrupted waste, Dedalium was born, an unlimited source of energy. Humanity, dazzled by such power, did not realize that under the shadow of that immense purity, uncontrollable and dangerous forms of infection were also born. And the little things began to fail ... Many files and images became corrupt, social media accounts disappeared overnight, web pages suffered small and untraceable attacks... Chaos started to emerge, the signs that something big was going to happen were too obvious, and fear and anguish took over the world. Those impurities, fed by all the garbage that continued to be generated, grew to become a great threat, a threat that claimed the Dedalium as its own. Humans, far from seeking a universal solution, began to blame each other as responsible for creating such monsters and abandoned the idea of community. So the first Network Guardians were created, shields being installed to keep everyone's information safe. Programmed not only to protect, but also to obtain Dedalium, its use as the mainline of defense and attack began to spread, but this only divided people more. Humanity was blinded by fear and ambition, and the Internet, that great discovery that would unite all people into one, fragmented them to the point of almost destroying them.