The Gauntlet: Arcade Roguelike

ForsofiA Studio

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About this game

A casual arcade experience with roguelike RPG mechanics. Ad-free.

In The Gauntlet, take your party of 3 characters into turn-based battles against floor after floor of monsters in a dungeon. These dungeons contain dragons, evil wizards, powerful knights and mages, and more. As you progress through floors, your characters level up and learn new abilities and magic spells.

Graphically, The Gauntlet paints a super stylish lo-fi pallette over classic pixel art sprites.

With roguelike mechanics, your party members experience points will not persist when falling in the Gauntlet. However, their abilities and other attributes will remain.

The Gauntlet aims to offer an enjoyable Arcade RPG experience to all players, offering an easier mode of 50 floors, suitable for casual or occasional players. Hardcore RPG gamers can battle through up to 150 floors in one session.

The Gauntlet is a mini-roguelike and can be enjoyed without ads. I repeat, there are no ads.

Ratings and reviews

It was fun but I gave up on it pretty fast. There's no period where you can heal after a fight/floor and even on easy, the enemies start one-shotting your party members past level 25 or so. I gave it another shot and beat the first 50-level game. It seems the progress resets every time.

When my friend and I were thinking of own ideas for classes and various other systems for what we thought would make a good RPG, this reminds me of that. I wonder if this game will ever implement more systems like shops or equipment. From my first play through, the game is fairly simple and the only drops you get are healing and recovery items as well as skill points to progress your classes. This of course means there's alot more room for content. One thing though I had a frame rate drop at F30

this game is fantastically small and takes very little time to learn--but a long time to master! the soundtrack SLAPS, and the game is FREE. I felt like a criminal, so buying the additional characters for $2 is the least you can do. I am having SO much fun getting lost in the nerdiness of this little gem.