@cullen posted about this and I had never heard of it before. It's a very simple little thing made in September '21 by 1 maybe 2 developers in Python and it fucking rocks.
Things that I like about this game
- All abilities are unlocked from the start, no grinding out hours of rogue-lite to unlock new build potentials. You have full control of the entirety of build options from your first run. If you're into build-crafting in games it's just so pure. There's little-to-no RNG involved with character progression.
- While the floors are randomly generated, you can fully preview a floor before committing to it and thus choose floors that are a fit for your build.
- The spell effects are all really cool and fun to watch.
- The art is minimal and reads very easily.
It's such a snappy, perfectly-scoped thing that people can play for 10 hours or a hundred.
And it has 800+ reviews on steam! It really seems like there's an audience out there legit hungry for more Nethack/DCSS/TOME (which means I should probably plug my own project playing in similar places
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Anyway it's $15 you should try it~