u/Ckeyz

I have been working on a dark fantasy city defense roguelike for a little over a yeat now. I am outsourcing nearly all the games art to an artist that can bring this painterly style to life, but paying for the whole UI to be created was looking expensive. So I decided I would give it my best shot and see how it turned out. This is my first try at designing a game menu other than slapping some stuff together, so I would love some feedback!

Its still a bit of a rough draft, I know a lot of the text and icons could use some more working getting them centered and such, but I wanted to make sure I wasnt wasting my time with all that before finishing it.

I personally love the idea of a bunch of grey instead of black and white when it comes to morality in a story. I also love when that's portrayed in the art! I am curious, what do you guys prefer?

In the dark fantasy strategy game I've been working on, we went for a darker approach. The player controlled units are dark and twisted and full for nature, and the enemy is a purifying force that wants to wipe the slate clean. I had a ton of fun developing all the details of the world and seeing the art of it all come to life, and I just wanted to share it with people that might like the darker tone.

I am curious: What are some of your favorite mechanics that have enabled ridiculously OP builds that have stuck with you from your favorite roguelites over the years? If you're like me, you play these games just to find ways to break them.

When I first started making this game, I just wanted to make broken builds with ridiculous game changing relics and overpowered abilities. About 1 year later, I am finally able to bring my vision of a broken build to life.

The clip features a Storm build Elf with a late game weapon imbued with Storm, several Storm based relics that increase jumps and damage on wet targets, and all the late game Storm research purchased. There also 'happened' to be a massive rainfall the night before the bears attacked my city (unlucky for them).

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Hello fellow roguelike enjoyers. I have been struggling recently trying to find the correct genre or best tags to use for a game that I am making. I was just quickly ushered out of the 4x sub after thinking that my game met all of the criteria to be a 4x. So now I'm wondering if my game is even actually a roguelike, like I thought? I attached the only video I have so far of gameplay, and I'll do my best to describe it and would love to hear your judgment :)

'Heroes of the Last Light' is purely turn based, no real-time elements. It takes place on a hex grid map that is procedurally generated. There is no campaign, just a challenge/survival game mode with the only meta progression between runs being unique difficulties that are unlocked. All gameplay elements are available from the first run. Progress is saved regularly over a single save file, so there's no going back to fix a mistake.

The basic gameplay loop is building a city, gathering resources, recruiting procedurally generated heroes with permadeath, exploring and clearing the map of enemies to gather powerful weapons and gameplay changing relics while leveling up your heroes. Waves of enemies come to destroy your city, and eventually, a boss will come.

Combat is tactical, and heroes use energy each turn to both cast abilities and for movement. Different abilities are attached to weapons when they are spawned based on a range of possibilities. Weapons can also be imbued with effects like burn, poison, wet, and storm. These effects combine with relics, abilities, and different research techs to create huge combos when paired effectively.

There is also a unique territory control mechanic called the Weave. I wrote a script that simulates the way a fog or liquid would move across the hex grid in between impassable terrain, which dictates how ghe weave behaves. The players Weave battles for control of tiles each turn against the enemies weave. Weave can be generated from certain buildings, and each type of weave provides unique effects to the tile it controls.

Please let me know if you think using a Roguelike tag is appropriate or not! :)

If what I described sounds interesting, I am taking emails to stay in the loop about future development updates. No steam page yet, unfortunately. Just drop a comment, and I'll shoot you the link.

I am wondering what people here think about the idea of a game that combines 4x hex grid exploration and city building in the format of a Roguelike? There doesn't seem to be really any games like this on Steam, and I have no idea what the interest level would be for a game like this.

The core of my idea revolves around surviving against waves of enemies using tactical combat and tower defense gameplay instead of playing against other civilizations that operate under the same rules as the player.

What are some gameplay elements or mechanics that you'd like to see in a game like this?

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We also have a discord with a playable prototype for those that are daring.

https://discord.gg/4PA28fqZ7