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Babel Destiny is a hardcore isometric soulslike in the Tower of Babel, where every enemy announces its blow in a dead language.
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Fact sheet
The facts.
- Title
- Babel Destiny
- Developer
- Del Portal Technologies S.A.C.
- Publisher
- Del Portal Technologies S.A.C.
- Credit
- A game by Jorel del Portal
- Based in
- Lima, Peru
- Genre
- Hardcore isometric soulslike (action)
- Mode
- Single-player
- Platform
- PC · Windows (Steam)
- Release
- January 2027
- Price
- TBA
- Free demo
- Steam Next Fest, October 19–26, 2026. At least two hours: the first stratum (the Scriptorium), four words of power and the first keeper.
- Controls
- Keyboard and mouse, or gamepad (PlayStation and Xbox prompts)
- Languages
- English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Simplified Chinese (interface and subtitles)
- Website
- babeldestiny.com
- Press contact
- support@delportaltechnologies.com
Descriptions
Learn their tongue. Read the blow before it lands.
Three lengths, ready to quote.
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Every enemy in the Tower of Babel announces its blow in a dead language. You can't read it, so you dash. Learn its letters, and the same attack becomes a window you can answer. Babel Destiny is a hardcore isometric soulslike for PC where each floor keeps a statue that grants a word of power and three letters of their tongue: every power you earn teaches you to read.
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In the first days all people spoke one Word. With it they raised a tower toward heaven. God did not destroy the Tower. He sealed it, and the one Word broke into many tongues. One envoy is sent to climb it, with a rod, a bell, and not one word of its tongues.
Every foe speaks its blow before it lands: a word that burns above it as it winds up. While the word burns red, you can't read it. You can't parry it and you can't guard it. You dash, and you live. Each floor keeps a statue that grants a word of power and three letters of their tongue. Learn them, and the same blow reads white: same wind-up, same speed. The body never lies. But white can be answered: parry on the beat, and the bell rings.
The combat is committed. No animation cancels, no spam that skips its recovery: the hit lands where the blade ends its travel, never before. Guard is a bar, and every parry notches their posture. Break it and they kneel, and a kneeling foe has one answer left: leap, and a bell falls from the sky.
The Tower is climbed. Not a menu of rooms: a place. Leap between floating islands, cross the sea of ink stone by stone, and climb to the seal that holds each bell. Four strata, four keepers, forty floors... or not. Each stratum is its own world with its own tongue, and each ends in a keeper with a grammar of its own: every keeper is an exam.
The free demo in Steam Next Fest, October 19–26, 2026, climbs the first stratum, the Scriptorium: its chambers, four words of power, and the first keeper. At least two hours, if you read well. Babel Destiny releases in January 2027 on Steam for Windows PC.
Key features
- Every blow is a word. Red: move. White: answer. Unread, or too heavy to stop, nothing stops a red blow but a dash.
- Statues teach letters. Every letter makes another blow readable, and every power you earn teaches you to read.
- Committed combat. Damage on contact: the hit lands where the blade ends its travel, never before.
- Guard is a bar. Every parry notches their posture. Break it and they kneel, and the Knell answers: a bell falls from the sky.
- Words of power. The demo teaches four: The Break, Wind Step, Winnow and In Hoc Signo Vinces. Every word has three ranks, and every rank changes how it looks.
- Every body has its own grammar. Archive Sentinel, the Wordless, Warden Disruptor, Echo Shade, Mimic, Copyist: learn how each one speaks.
- The Tower is climbed. Floating islands, stones over a sea of ink, the seal that holds each bell, and an altimeter that counts every metre you win.
- Every stratum ends in an exam. Four strata, four keepers, forty floors. The demo opens the first.
- Hard, and fair. Even one foe, one on one, will test you. But every blow tells you what it is before it lands.
- Six languages. English, Spanish, German, French, Italian and Simplified Chinese, for the interface and the subtitles. Keyboard or gamepad.
Trailer and prologue
They silenced the story. Not the word.
Every shot of the trailer is the game itself, captured in-engine.
Screenshots
From the first stratum.
Click a picture for the full size.
Key art
The Tower of Babel.
Logos
The wordmark.
On a transparent background. Please don't recolour or distort it.
The whole kit in one file. Logos, key art, the screenshots above and a plain-text fact sheet.
About the studio
Del Portal Technologies.
Del Portal Technologies is an independent studio from Lima, Peru. Babel Destiny is a game by Jorel del Portal.
Press and content creators
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