The Manor - A hybrid text adventure-roguelite looking for feedback
Hi everyone, Nick here, a solo dev working on The Manor - a text adventure that fetches from the genre and blends it with roguelite games.
Disclaimer - As long as I am in validation phase, AI was used to support content (imagery, music, SFX...) on top of an original written story and world building authored by me.
As a kid, I loved reading gamebooks, but the "game" component was too light: I always wanted the fights in Lone Wolf books to be more tactical and rewarding but most of the time I just went with mindblast or psi-surge and called it a day.
This was the starting point when 6 months ago I came up with the idea for The Manor, for which you can play a demo of about 2h of content on www.the-manor-game.com ;
What is the Manor about?
I am trying to validate whether there is an appetite for a story-driven text adventure that Is:
- playable in short sessions, optimized for mobile
- with a dark fantasy mood focused on the pleasure of exploring, not exclusively in the story component.
- a metaprogression layer impacting both the game component and narrative choices via progressive lore discovery.
- resource management elements and light strategic combat.
I would love to get your feedback either here on or the game discord: it would be helpful to understand whether to continue working on this, pivoting, or leave it be. :)
Thanks for stopping by! 🙏