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

I enjoy roguelikes, and this is one of the best I've played on mobile. I haven't regretted paying to remove ads for one second, close to 10 hours played so far and it's still enjoyable. the graphics are very attractive, gameplay is solid, the long term progression is not that exciting (so far) but the discovery is great. there's an interesting crafting system that is also part of the long term progression, so that makes up for the boring long term "perks" that I've seen so far. Recommend!

Final edit: yeah, I'm done. There's no point anymore, when it's literally impossible to pass one single boss. It was a great game for years, but after a while it's just repetitive and infuriating. Another edit! I can't remember the last time I made it past level 5. I understand there needs to be increasing difficulty, but when one boss kills me after burning 7 health potions and five health crystals AND two resurrection thingies, it's too damn much. Still a good game.

First I want to preface this by saying I've been playing "tough but fair" games for a long time. From Dark Souls to Tales of Maj'eyal I've played and beaten a lot of hard games but Caves is just not balanced at all. I can't even count how many times a run ended because the first mob I encounter spawns a new add every other turn and then blinks away from me. How am I supposed to do deal with that with starting gear? 3 stars for the aesthetic and idea of gameplay though

What’s new

0.95.3.85
- Technical fixes
0.95.3.84
- Optimized rendering logic
- Added more post-processing options (various Bloom and CRT shader options)
- Updated settings menu
0.95.3.8
- Complete rebalance of "Paladin" and "Paladin 2.0" armors
- Changed parameters of some armor types
- New weapon type "Minigun"
- 16 new weapons
- 2 new enemies
- Rebalance of the shadow copy ability
- Improved some visual effects
- D-Pad can now be used for dashes
- Added text shadows
- Migration to Google Play Games v2