The Codex of Roguelikes

[buffalo bill]

What game is this, i don't recognize it.

enemies don't respawn

I love the game—perhaps the finest game of all time imo—but new enemies definitely spawn on levels if you hang around long enough

Frowm an old changelog:

* The monster spawn rate on explored levels (spawning due to passage of time) is now lower

 

[Aemar]

Reinstalled it again and and see that there is already a few new skills and prestige classes to play with.

Got my fill for now, unistalled it again.

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.

 

[Serus]

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.

 

[VHS9000]

First 1/3 or 1/2 of every run is much, much harder than the later part

Since author removed pretas a few days ago. Some of them with “Blood feast” trait was 100% run-killers for swarming summoner builds.

 

[Theodora]

A few more play in Path of Agra:

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?

 

[Serus]

A few more play in Path of Agra:

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:

This is my first game, I started it about a year ago (april 2022). I have NO background in coding or computer science or anything (I'm actually a published poet lol, moved across the country recently and currently working at a bakery which can sometimes consume time), so if something technical is being suggested, it might have to be explained to me in childlike language

If the above is true the guy quite impressive. Doesn't say anything about graphics and art.

 

[buffalo bill]

A few more play in Path of Agra:

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:

This is my first game, I started it about a year ago (april 2022). I have NO background in coding or computer science or anything (I'm actually a published poet lol, moved across the country recently and currently working at a bakery which can sometimes consume time), so if something technical is being suggested, it might have to be explained to me in childlike language

If the above is true the guy quite impressive. Doesn't say anything about graphics and art.

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?

 

[Gandalf]

I'm so happy that I've learned about the Path of Achra from this thread. Game is really nice! It's amazing to see this whole package of quality to be made by just a single man. That guy is talented, I can tell you that.

 

[Matador]

I'm so happy that I've learned about the Path of Achra from this thread. Game is really nice! It's amazing to see this whole package of quality to be made by just a single man. That guy is talented, I can tell you that.

Definitely I got the itch to buy it with all the praise in this thread.

 

[Gandalf]

I'm so happy that I've learned about the Path of Achra from this thread. Game is really nice! It's amazing to see this whole package of quality to be made by just a single man. That guy is talented, I can tell you that.

Definitely I got the itch to buy it with all the praise in this thread.

There's a free demo available, so you can check it out to see if the game is anything to your liking.

 

[Serus]

I'm so happy that I've learned about the Path of Achra from this thread. Game is really nice! It's amazing to see this whole package of quality to be made by just a single man. That guy is talented, I can tell you that.

Definitely I got the itch to buy it with all the praise in this thread.

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.

 

[Kabas]

Definitely I got the itch to buy it with all the praise in this thread.

Let's just say that i kept installing and uninstalling this game for a week straight.

More of my winners so far

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.

Uninstalled again for now. Will wait until the dev adds a few more content as i am still interested in figuring out how to make Snakedancer and Arborus work.

 

[VHS9000]

Don't know, feels like after few updates game became too easy, fire healing/bloodbath melee builds break through final cycle like steamroller.

*sounds of death metal*

Still can't make any ice builds work, apparently the ice skill tree sucks by the concept.

 

[Kabas]

Dev updates the game very frequently. Hopefully some skills will get a rework.

 

[Aemar]

Is this true?

 

[Jigby]

Cogmind with zoom version + larger fonts

https://www.gridsagegames.com/blog/2023/12/year-10-of-the-cogmind/

 

[Serus]

Don't know, feels like after few updates game became too easy, fire healing/bloodbath melee builds break through final cycle like steamroller.

*sounds of death metal*

Still can't make any ice builds work, apparently the ice skill tree sucks by the concept.

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.




I need to play Cogmind one day.

 

[Infinitron]

Ultima Underworld-inspired browser-based roguelike: https://ibgoge.itch.io/stygian-abyss

 

[Dadd]

The rotating camera is totally stupid.

 

[Gandalf]

How do I lit the candle? Pressed Z to open inventory and put the candle in the worm segment. Didn't made a trick.

 

[buffalo bill]

looks lame and casual

 

[Aemar]

Any thoughts on this game? Apparently it's been abandoned.

 

[getter77]

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]

LOL with Tony Hawke!

 

[buffalo bill]

LOL with Tony Hawke!

not a roguelike