Aemar
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Lmao, I need this fucking game, and I'll most likely buy it during the upcoming sale. Will have to install Windows on my laptop in order to play it, but whatever.
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The Codex of Roguelikes
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A few more play in Path of Agra:
This is finally some "normal" build as far as this game goes using the most basic classs - Warrior and Champion, even the god is one of the gods you start with access to. Also my last game in 2nd cycle:
My first win in Thrid Cycle:
My first working summonnner build. I'm a bad, bad person though because it's a "kill your summons then kill their cadavers (literally) build". It also came close to be another "one press of a button build". In fact i was able to clear a couple of levels with one but only a couple. The final level was cleared from all regular monsters with one attack but the final boss survived the first and died to the second. If someone wants to try - be careful, this build not only kills your own summons, it actively tries to kill you - more so than many blood builds do. This is where 8x Fire Healing come in handy, they are not meant to heal from enemy hits but almost exclusively from self harm - at least in the second half of the run.
One conclusions. Game has an issue with difficulty curve. First 1/3 or 1/2 of every run is much, much harder than the later part for most builds i tried. Although, to be fair i died twice killed by the final boss so there is that.
This is finally some "normal" build as far as this game goes using the most basic classs - Warrior and Champion, even the god is one of the gods you start with access to. Also my last game in 2nd cycle:
My first win in Thrid Cycle:
My first working summonnner build. I'm a bad, bad person though because it's a "kill your summons then kill their cadavers (literally) build". It also came close to be another "one press of a button build". In fact i was able to clear a couple of levels with one but only a couple. The final level was cleared from all regular monsters with one attack but the final boss survived the first and died to the second. If someone wants to try - be careful, this build not only kills your own summons, it actively tries to kill you - more so than many blood builds do. This is where 8x Fire Healing come in handy, they are not meant to heal from enemy hits but almost exclusively from self harm - at least in the second half of the run.
One conclusions. Game has an issue with difficulty curve. First 1/3 or 1/2 of every run is much, much harder than the later part for most builds i tried. Although, to be fair i died twice killed by the final boss so there is that.
Since author removed pretas a few days ago. Some of them with “Blood feast” trait was 100% run-killers for swarming summoner builds.
Wow, I missed all the attention on Achra but those are some really nice sprites. It's not often you expect to find novel pixel art, nevermind with roguelikes where sprites are often just filler at best; but these are really well stylised and have their own unique thing going on. Have any of the devs / artists / etc. worked on anything else prior to this?
No clue. The only thing i'm almost sure of is that the author is a Potato because there are several words in the language in the game - including a worm-like monster called Robak = worm in Potato. There are several other words, names of monsters, items, etc...
I found this on the official Discord of the game:
If the above is true the guy quite impressive. Doesn't say anything about graphics and art.
buffalo bill
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Wow, that is pretty inspiring. Makes me want to try making my dream roguelike based on High Rise. I wonder how he (he, right?) learned?
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Definitely I got the itch to buy it with all the praise in this thread.
Gandalf
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There's a free demo available, so you can check it out to see if the game is anything to your liking.
It is praise but it also is conditional. Fantastic game if you are a build-fag, also great as short game you can play between other stuff - but at the same time not a mindless game by any means. It is however mediocre in every other way. I like it very much but I am a buildfag. Also combatfag and explorationfag but this game is not good at those.
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Let's just say that i kept installing and uninstalling this game for a week straight.
Somewhat similar to my very first winner, only instead of Shantih prestige class i tried the new Bolga one. Bolga is Death/Lightning hybrid that makes it so that your Charge stacks also improve your armor.
The end result is a survivable character who is also pretty mobile. Should have gone harder on agility and technique instead of electrokinesis i think.
This build completely fixes tha main issue i have with the teleporter builds. Mainly the issue of you teleporting near that one enemy you don't want be near.
They can't catch you if they're cold and sick.
Ascetic Ill prophet is pretty solid especially once you get a hold of a Crow Visage.
Came a bit too close to death a few times before my build was set, Oros tentacle summons really came in handy.
Practically the same as my previous Skeleton apostle of Humbaba. Blood-drinker and his "all blood damage now restores your health" is pretty ridiculous, my skeleton became practically unkillable the moment i chose this prestige class.
Kinda goes against the idea of skeleton apostle as you actually want to die fairly often in order to trigger divine interventions and get these sweet stat boosts but it actually felt stronger than my previous one. Those few enemy groups who could actually kill me were in for some nasty surprise.
Also tried VHS9000 no nonsense cyclops champion build. I liked it.
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Don't know, feels like after few updates game became too easy, fire healing/bloodbath melee builds break through final cycle like steamroller.
Still can't make any ice builds work, apparently the ice skill tree sucks by the concept.
Still can't make any ice builds work, apparently the ice skill tree sucks by the concept.
Jigby
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Cogmind with zoom version + larger fonts
https://www.gridsagegames.com/blog/2023/12/year-10-of-the-cogmind/
https://www.gridsagegames.com/blog/2023/12/year-10-of-the-cogmind/
Add to that the fact ice has the least skills to choose from, 1-2 less than all other... types. Or it had last time i checked. This suggests that at 1 more ice skill is in the works.Don't know, feels like after few updates game became too easy, fire healing/bloodbath melee builds break through final cycle like steamroller.
Still can't make any ice builds work, apparently the ice skill tree sucks by the concept.
I need to play Cogmind one day.
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buffalo bill
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looks lame and casual
Was solid with potential among the few at that time on the OGL front for it before things got weird on said front, unsure if game abandoned or if a consequence of the dev seemingly having disappeared outright this past fair while.
KeighnMcDeath
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buffalo bill
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not a roguelike
KeighnMcDeath
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Ah! So no random boarding monster slaying dungeons? Boo!
Anyway, I just saw this:
Anyway, I just saw this:
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