Forward: Escape The Fold

Christophe Coyard

About this game

FORWARD: Escape The Fold was created to be the perfect bitesized roguelike dungeon crawler for mobile.

Choose your champion and face a relentless crawl through the card-based dungeons, collect items to power your abilities and defeat the gruesome monsters facing you. But keep going FORWARD!

**2022 Megamigs Award Winner**
**2022 Tiny Teams Fest Nominee**
**2022 DemoNight Nominee**
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Forward is an innovative game in which you will progress through a procedurally-generated dungeon in the form of cards. Move your character from one card to another and keep going forward while avoiding attacking enemies. However be careful, each card will have specific effects making each move important and strategic.

Your goal is to clear the 8 levels of a dungeon, each level getting increasingly difficult. In order to succeed, you will have to choose which move to make, which item to pick and use your skills. Each choice is critical.

Take advantage of many items combinations and build the best character possible based on your goal and the cards you’ll come across.
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Features:

- 100+ item cards to improve your characters
- 9 playable characters with unique skills and game mechanics
- 27 unique active competencies
- 4 game modes

As Forward is a rogue-like inspired game, the features you’ll be able to find are :

- Death ends the game ‌
- Procedurally-generated dungeons
- Turn-based movements
- Resource management (health, armor, mana, gold etc.)
- Many randomly drawn items

The game is based on the 2022 PC game Forward: Escape the Fold which was received very positively. Developed by Two Tiny Dice, its success prompted the developer to bring the game to mobile.

Ratings and reviews

Simply put, this is a perfect game. At any time you can select anything in the game and an explanation will pop up. Gameplay is clear and straightforward. Each character has their own unique play style, along with multiple potential powers to further increase variety. Challenges each act like their own additional characters. Visuals and sound are interesting and evocative. The amount of value for the price is unbelievable. The ultimate distillation of the roguelike deck builder.

This game is good, but heavily luck driven. Been slogging away at one character with one power for upwards of 50 runs now and can't beat it. I get that it's meant to be challenging, but when the cards come at you so randomly, it can just unforgivingly drop a 9 monster on you and you have absolutely no way to react. I still keep hitting "Retry" so maybe that says more about me than the game. Still wish there was a little more balance than RNG.

Very rarely do I buy a game with so few reviews and downloads (at the time of this review there is about 100 downloads) and this game made me fall in love with card rougelikes again. Gameplay is amazing! Hidden synergy is amazing! So many characters and so much to unlock. Music design is top notch and you never feel like you've been cheated out of win, there's very few times were you are truely out of control. Buy this game don't wait, feels polished to a shine.

What’s new

Fixed a bug that prevented messages displaying status details from closing.