A cellar-crawling roguelike

Cellar Tears

Down in a candle-lit cellar, one small, very sad kid fights back the only way he can: with tears. Clear rooms, grab strange items and cry your way past three floors of monsters to the boss at the bottom.

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  • Free
  • No account
  • Plays offline
  • Best on a phone, held sideways
Cellar Tears title screen: the crying kid above the game's name, between two lit candles

What's down there

Every run builds a new cellar, so no two trips down the stairs are the same. Lose, and you start again from the top, a little wiser.

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Three floors, three bosses

Each floor ends with a boss: Gutmaw, the Twin Wick and, at the very bottom, the Hollow Mother.

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Twenty items that stack

Triple shot, homing, piercing, bouncing and ghost tears, and more. Find a few together and your tears get silly.

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Shops and secret rooms

Spend coins in the shop, open locked doors with keys and bomb the walls to find hidden rooms.

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Active items

Rage Candle, Tear Burst, Healing Flask and more. Clear rooms to charge them, then save one for a tight spot.

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Made for thumbs

Twin-stick touch controls: left thumb moves, right thumb fires. Big buttons for bombs, items, the map and pause.

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Plays offline

Install it and it runs with no signal. Your best floor and number of wins stay on your device.

A look inside

Real screenshots from the game.

A cellar room full of monsters, with triple homing tears flying toward them
Clear the room. The doors stay shut until every monster is gone.
Boss fight against the Twin Wick, a living candle, with its health bar at the top
Beat the boss. The Twin Wick guards the way to floor three.
The game on a phone in landscape, with move and fire thumbsticks on each side
Two thumbs. Move on the left, fire on the right.
The shop, selling an item, a heart and a bomb for coins
Shop smart. Coins buy items, hearts and bombs.

How to play

Turn your phone sideways and you're ready.

  1. Move and fire

    Drag your left thumb to walk and your right thumb to cry in any direction.

  2. Clear each room

    Beat every monster to open the doors. Watch for spikes, pits and purple shots.

  3. Grab items

    Pick up items, coins, keys and bombs. Check the map to find the item room and the shop.

  4. Find the boss

    Beat the boss on each floor to go deeper. Win all three to finish the run.

Install it like an app

Cellar Tears installs from your browser. It gets its own icon, opens full screen and plays offline.

Android

Open the game in Chrome and tap Install at the top right of the title screen. Or use the browser menu and choose Install app.

iPhone and iPad

Open the game in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen.

Computer

In Chrome or Edge, click Install on the title screen or the install icon in the address bar.

The controls are built for touch screens. On a computer you can use a mouse, but you can only move or fire at one time.

Ready to go down?

Free, no sign-up, and your next run is one tap away.

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