Jojiro's Comments

Excellent game. Barb is a bit tricky to play cuz you have limited player information to really keep the rage going so no playstyle is really rewarded. Ranger ammo creation being manual kills a lot of time. Wonder if that could be streamlined. Overall the game captures fun, and there is a great fairness to deaths. Ladder/stair-shuffling is a workable strategy which is a great homage to roguelikes, and the class system feels robust and aside from quibbles above well-tested. Rogues excel for speedrunning - though I died within sight of Yendor twice with a rogue and got my best record with a Storm Mage (32:0) of all things (finding a rogue book early to nab Dungeon Sense). A lot of love went into this, and I appreciate the mix of minimalism and system mastery that this game entails. Have you played Red Rogue? Of rogue-lites, this and Red Rogue are easily my favorites, despite how different they are. Both are very "dungeon roguelike, but I only have an hour to kill". :)