WILD Push-Your-Luck Dungeoncrawl Roguelike! | Let's Try Sol Cesto

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Sol Cesto is a tactical and frenetic roguelite in which you have to master your luck. Choose a hero and reach the bottom of a random dungeon. In this grim world, every action has consequences...
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[@DocGeraud]

Hello, and thank you for playing our game! Lots of really good feedback here 🙏 I totally agree with the "too much random" thing. This is an early demo and we don't have all the player tools yet, but we're planning on adding a lot of stuff. Future teeth will do exactly what you suggested: conditionnal effects like "open a chest and the adjacent ennemies are debuffed the next turn", this kind of things! Also and that is totally our fault for not explaining it in the tutorial, but you can combine some of the objects with the sun power. For instance you can use a bomb in a column. Thanks again for playing the game and giving lots of good ideas, we'll let you know when we have a new demo 😊

[@blueredingreen]

Some potential ideas: - Give players some control over what monsters, chests or healing items are added to the pool of things that can generate in the grid (the easiest way to balance this is probably to have the tree mentioned in the last point) - Have relics with passive effects that can be bought or that you can pick for free between levels, without a downside (while teeth can keep their downside, and those have the better passive effects) - There could also be other active skills that charge after a few turns, which you get or buy between levels (rather than just having single-use consumables in addition to the sun active). They could have effects like swap 2 cells or reduce the strength of a monster. - Maybe players can work their way through a tree of levels, where a level might have more chests or more monsters of a certain type, etc, and different levels might have different rewards That may make it more similar to other games, but those are some well-established ways of making a roguelike engaging and making players feel like they're progressing through something.

[@arthurgadelha9430]

I think a good thing to add could be getting something for defeating the monsters, like XP that could lead to unlocking some perks for your run (maybe even some class specific perks) so you would feel becoming more powerful by each floor and making room for a big variety in builds and making each run more different from the other. To balance that of course enemies would keep getting stronger faster by the floors you progress through :)

[@SuperBlupers]

The art style really reminds me of Felix colgrave and I am HERE FOR IT

[@3241Chimiko]

Wishlisted. Did not expect much from the player character sprite art but the animation really catches my eye. The bgm is great for thinking.

[@CalvinChikelue]

The art here is absolutely brilliant! Surreal, unique & evocative at the same time

[@Perzyn]

The graphic style, especially the main character's design, is weirdly reminescent of Bulgarian Treasure Planet.

[@papaboris8665]

Fascinating game. Wishlisted-thank you for sharing!

[@jameslang8115]

Fantastic video! I hope this game gets supported on deck soon!

[@XEndlessSteelX]

This looks like a genuinely interesting game. Could be a little deeper, but this IS not the final build. I like it

[@blotcho84]

I love the style!

[@giuseppebonatici7169]

WILD pluck-your-teeth Dungeoncrawl Roguelike! | Let's Try Sol Cesto FTFY

[@AshenTheDreamer]

man, this game is really cool, and cleaver

[@MySphincter94]

Game looks like something that should say, "From the mind of Rob Zombie..."

[@bekfaststealer2660]

Does running into monsters with higher stats deal the difference in stats as damage to you? Or does it always just deal 1 damage? I had assumed the latter.

[@DocGeraud]

It deals the difference! We're improving the user interface so players don't have to estimate the damage every time😅