March 1st saw the release of Mysterious Castle 1.9, a new, significantly expanded version of the isometric tactical grid- and party-based "exploration roguelike" that seems to be quite fun to play already despite still being a work-in-progress.



Mysterious Castle is a "pay what you want" title with $4.99 being its official price, and you can give it a try by downloading a Win demo, or even a Mac demo if you swing that way. There have been rumours of the game being not quite compatible with Windows 7 x64 at this point (not in everybody's case, though), but that will probably be fixed soon. Mysterious Castle seems to have gathered quite a lot of positive feedback in its own dedicated thread here on the Codex, so by all means give the demo a spin if you still haven't!

Currently, the developer seems to be in the process of squishing some nasty creatures known as bugs. In the future, the game will continue to expand, and big changes are to be introduced. Among the promised features are:

• significantly more story, dialogue, and quests, including a quest generation system, which is supposed to turn the game into a randomly generated RPG rather than "just" a roguelike;
• introduction of more obstacles and puzzles, so that if you manage to cross the river or climb the cliff, you'll be rewarded with some books/weapons;
• a tutorial on using the editor in order to encourage player generated content.

And probably more!

Links:
Official website
Indievania page (you can buy the game here)

Thanks Sovard!