Survive 25 Years In New City Builder From Lyca’s Creator

Hear The Bell Toll Demo Is Live

Every year is survival. Every three years a calamity. Hear The Bell Toll is a city builder with roguelike DNA, where careful planning and bold choices decide whether your city thrives, or falls into ruin.

From solo developer Syphono4 (Shaunak), creator of a small active-incremental game, Lyca, Hear The Bell Toll invites players to test their city-building and strategy skills across short, satisfying runs that combine the depth of city management with the unpredictability of roguelike design. The demo is now available on Steam.

What’s Hear The Bell Toll in a nutshell:

City building under pressure: Each year brings new tribute requirements, crises to manage, and choices that ripple through the life of your settlement.
Roguelike unpredictability: A rerollable Auto Chess-style shop means every run offers different buildings, synergies, and surprises.
Strategic survival: Balance class synergies, status effects like Crime and Sickness, and game-changing Banners to withstand 25 years of challenges.
Calamities: Every three years, powerful disasters strike, pushing your city to its limits

What’s in the Demo

30 buildings across 8 classes to create synergies and shape your city.
50 unique Banners offering modifiers that can transform your strategy.
3 Status Effects (Crime, Sickness, Unrest) and 15 Calamities to survive.
3 Biomes and 3 Difficulty levels for varied challenges.
Balancing updates to synergies, gold generation, building upgrades, calamities, and more.