Caves (Roguelike)

36dev

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About this game

A classical turn-based roguelike* styled game, with pixel art graphics. The main feature of the game are caves, that you can dig through using your pickaxe. Both magic and high technology go together here.

*From Wikipedia:
"Roguelike is a subgenre of RPG games that are characterized by random level generation, turn-based gameplay, tile-based graphics, and permanent death of the player-character."

Also features:
- Your own main base
- A lot of unlockable high-tech armors
- Different special abilities
- Find resources and craft unique and powerful items in a Crafting Station on your base
- Hordes of skeletons, mutants, robots, and other creatures
- Create your unique character by choosing different stats. Find your playstyle and your tactic.
- Perk system
- Big, randomly generated areas to explore
- Many interesting items
- A huge weapons arsenal, from bows and daggers to plasma guns and energy swords, experimental guns, and magic superweapons
- Each weapon has its own unique ability
- Comfortable controls (Gamepad support, Touchscreen D-Pad)

The game is in constant development and I am actively working on new content and gameplay elements.
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Ratings and reviews

(Excellent, but see below) Tough, but fair. Lots of little tricks and techniques to discover and master. Characters are highly customizable. This is a welcome alternative to the legendary Pixel Dungeon, different in many ways and more open-ended. EDIT: Sadly, the game's gotten needlessly more complicated & laborious over the past couple years. Instead of adding new areas to explore, the dev's added more and more items & enemies. This is perhaps welcome for hardcore gamers, but otherwise..

Exceptional game that I have been playing for literally YEARS! Unbelievable replayability and genius game mechanics. I love the math coded in the calculations for combat, it truly brings the game to life with each unique encounter. Very rewarding dungeon crawling for loot and exploring caves for resources for building unique items. It plays like a RTS, RPG, and a survival game (on hard level setting) because you have to gather food or starve to death. A true rogue like like no other.

Another edit! Love how new stuff keeps appearing. I can't wait for the upcoming update. I still wish it wasn't quite so hard; I can't get past level 5 anymore. The cool new gear you acquired up to that point will suddenly be completely inadequate to kill baddies or survive their attacks. I understand there needs to be increasing difficulty but it's disproportionate. Even though, I still play this little game almost daily.

What's new

0.95.3.0(5)
- Bug fixes
0.95.3.0
- New location
- 66 new weapons
- 45 new enemies
- 3 new bosses
- 3 new artifacts
- 14 new items
- New smelting recipes and a new crafting recipe
- Rebalance of the game economy
- Increased effectiveness of Midas weapons
- Reduced the difficulty of the first 4 locations
- Reduced the difficulty of fighting duo and trio bosses
- Improved some perks
- Improved some types of armor
- The order of locations is now more random
- A lot of fixes and improvements
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