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18 wordsZANOKA is a PC action roguelike built around player-controlled sword combos, timed dodges, and elemental upgrades. Website: zanoka.ca
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Everything you need to tell the story of ZANOKA.
Facts, copy-ready descriptions, uncut gameplay, the ZANOKA Short, logos, and web-size images for previews, features, videos, and streams. High-resolution files are available on request.
Quick facts
At a glance.
Title
ZANOKAGenre
Action roguelike · swordfighting combo gamePlatform
Windows PCPlayers
Single-playerControls
Controller + keyboard/mouseDeveloper
ZanokaGameDev · solo developerConcept art
Malaika RaheelStatus
In developmentKickstarter
Live until October 25, 2026Copy-ready
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Short
48 wordsZANOKA is an action roguelike for Windows PC where you control the swordplay. Chain light and heavy cuts, time your dodges, and combine elemental upgrades against enemy waves and bosses. In development by solo developer ZanokaGameDev, with original character designs by Malaika Raheel. Watch real gameplay at zanoka.ca.
Long
108 wordsZANOKA is an action roguelike swordfighting combo game for Windows PC, in development by solo developer ZanokaGameDev, with original character designs and concept art by Malaika Raheel. Players control Zanoka through waves of enemies, chaining light and heavy sword cuts into combos and timing dodges to stay in the fight. A boss arrives every seventh round, with later bosses carrying traits that change the encounter. Lightning, fire, ice, venom, bleed, and shock upgrades combine into synergies; gold buys permanent trainings for future runs. See how the combat and upgrade choices come together in uncut gameplay on the official website. Follow development or support the current Kickstarter at zanoka.ca.
Key features
- Player-controlled swordplay. Chain light and heavy cuts into named combos, and time your dodges to stay in the fight.
- Bosses. A boss every seventh round. The lineup changes from run to run, and later bosses can carry traits that change the fight.
- Elemental upgrades. Combine lightning, fire, ice, venom, bleed, and shock into synergies that change the way combat works.
- Permanent upgrades. Spend the gold you earn on trainings like armour, regeneration, and critical hits, and keep them for every run after.
- Builds. Mix survivability choices, enemy pulls, knockback, summons, decoys, and phantom weapons into a build of your own.
Everything shown is from the work-in-progress build and may change.
Video
Watch it move.
Full gameplay run
One uncut 11-minute run on the third map, with sword combos, upgrade choices, and three bosses. Recorded from the work-in-progress build at 1080p and 60 fps.
YouTube Short
Swordplay, a boss going down, elemental upgrades, and the end card: 16 seconds of real gameplay from the work-in-progress build.
Gameplay Update 1
Over two minutes of real gameplay from the work-in-progress build, recorded at 1440p and 60 fps.
Videos play on YouTube in privacy-enhanced mode, and nothing loads from YouTube until you press play. Photosensitivity warning: contains flashing lights. The gameplay is real, recorded live from ZANOKA.
Logos
Brand files.
ZANOKA title logo
Blue-and-white title with the Zeta Reticulan planets and gold celestial frame. Original-resolution PNG crop for editorial layouts.
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Planet mark
The ringed Zeta Reticulan planet with the complete Z emblem. Transparent PNG for avatars and square placements.
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Key art and gameplay.
Web-size images from the current work-in-progress build. For high-resolution versions, see On request below.
Zanoka with her sword
A brawl full of combos and elemental upgrades
The boss of round 21
The white cat fights at Zanoka’s side
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Who makes it
Two names behind ZANOKA.
Creator and solo developer
ZanokaGameDev
Creative vision, game design, and code. ZanokaGameDev builds ZANOKA solo, from the sword combat and the upgrades to the bosses and this website.
Artist
Malaika Raheel
Every character in ZANOKA began as a drawing by Malaika Raheel, from Zanoka herself to the enemies and bosses she fights. Her character designs and concept art shape the look of the game.
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