MEGALOOT is a Neuron Activator Roguelite with Better Gearing than Many Full RPGs

Found the demo of MEGALOOT during Steam Next Fest and it activated my neurons hard - it's got a very clever and satisfying build creation experience with some really well thought out gear systems and stats, which for me makes a Roguelike way more interesting even if the gameplay is very simple.
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[@ravenage]

Hello mate! Thank you for playing Megaloot :)

[@dumbgames4933]

Darn cool-looking game, Wishlisted!

[@SusejFTW]

Day 1 Buy for sure. Take your time & make it right!

[@syafranmuflih7139]

Please please please make a mobile version of this

[@ceniza-estigia8290]

Sold! Skills, items and mechanics are really well explained and implemented.

[@Sem-1006]

Hey, I don't know if you will read this, but I wanted to ask why you decided to name the purple items "Legendary". In my head the usual color and naming convention is Epic for purple und Legendary for Gold/Yellow.

[@N00bie666]

i probably wont ever play this game, not my jam, but like those stacking tooltips are the most beautiful thing ive ever seen and they need to be in literally every single game

[@RomGomLP]

Ive first seen this mechanic in crusader kings, a deeply overwhelming complex strategy game, and I feel in love with that. Being able to pull up an explanation of an explanation of a term just like that without having to go into some tutorial or wiki is so good

[@leoleo1035]

@@RomGomLP More recently, Baldur's Gate and Pathfinder games also do that!

[@alexanderwestphal9777]

new games do this very well

[@TuriGamer]

40 minutes in and hes still fighting little rock dudes and fairies

[@ZiggyDGaming]

Discovering how this game works and how well designed the gearing is was a treat - it's very clever how the different mechanics come together and the set system as well as the gameplay focus on the gearing above all else. Definitely one I'm keen to return to and one of my next fest top picks.

[@Schatten.mensch]

Thank you for explaining the game about a million times better than the game itself does ... I must admit, I tried to play the demo and found it about as intuitive to play as Aurora4X. This game desperately needs a (hidden) tutorial for the first run. Might install it again and give it another shot if the demo is still available ^^

[@ZiggyDGaming]

Happy to help! I assume some sort of tutorialization is on the cards for the future - it'll need one. That said, I personally had a great time figuring it out without one.

[@leoleo1035]

I felt that the only thing that required intuition when first playing this game, was the equipment combination mechanic, but the visual feedback when hovering an item that is equal to another, tells a lot. It is very easy to learn how to play by simply hovering over what you don't understand. Maybe your difficulty was in actually realizing it exists. I guess it is the one thing the game should tell you at the start. But asking for a tutorial for this game seems really silly. It definitely does not need one lmao. You can also play with the training dummy to test builds. Overall, it is a game with its own depth but still extremely simple and easy to understand.

[@dumbgames4933]

Very cool, thanks for sharing!

[@pronick619]

game looks fun! btw you might have been able to use the armor break ring to kill that reflect mob.

[@cabal123123123]

Another nice coverage on indie games 👍

[@Olemrac11]

this game is very intriguing. i enjoyed your gameplay. id love this as a mobile game!!!

[@yasinachekzai2567]

The pixel art looks so cute in this one! 🥰

[@a2daj83]

spreadsheet game with a bit of a ui. cool

[@007Kiristo]

Kinda reminds me of The Dungeon Beneath, which is a lot of fun. Will have to check this one out.

[@TheKobool]

Miss your backpack hero videos. Should visit that game again

[@Taaz2]

Would love some text logs on what is happening - haven't played it so it might be more intuitive which turn is which (e.g. did I block or did they block?) but having the history to see what was happening does not seem bad with this kind of game.

[@JPgreekgaming]

Great find! Definitely goes on the wishlist.

[@Joshua-pr9vg]

How to hard-counter Blackthorn set? The definition is mental.

[@Salsa2o7]

This look pretty cool but I can’t imagine playing this sat at a computer, mouse and keyboard. looks like an amazing phone game.

[@Failedmylife]

Hey Ziggy, thanks for showing off cool indie titles! Wish you and the family the best!

[@jordannutt2238]

wow i dunno if i could get into this, i do like the dungeon crawler architype with the gear synergy being most of the game, as much as i love build crafting, ive got like 97 games of the sort, but this takes it to 11 for sure, but i do feel as tho sometimes these games shoot them selves in the foot bc not being able to like exile buffs/perks/powers etc, from the "deck" that would directly hurt certain builds. like one towet defense style game has plenty of good upgrades that you can combine into more RNG where you dont know WHAT your about to get, but has one of the last few achivements locked behind getting a increadible amount of crit, so much so that ONLY at the start of the game are you capable of stacking that many of those cards bc as you progress and unlock, the deck is flooded with what you are NOT looking for. another has challenges to upgrade a particular wep, but relies on the RNG to get it so many levels, as well as RNG to even aquire it in a run

[@antmeyerx]

Yeah this is gonna be an addicting one for me. Is there a release date?

[@ZiggyDGaming]

Sometime in the next few months it seems!

[@juice.orange6542]

Did a few runs. Magic is definetly OP as of now. There are way too many wasys to compound the wisdom and evasion of certain armor peices and rings/necklaces

[@abigchair]

is this path of building with graphics??

[@alexanderwestphal9777]

dude you never explained convert and you constantly left item slots open. after the first 3 set bonuses yo ucan still equip stuff but it just wont get the bonus. unless you know otherwise but that wouldnt make any god damn sense. but you'd think having 8 pieces of equipment levelling up all the time would be the most efficient

[@Tremulant887]

Get some friends and try The Black Pool. I had a ton of fun playing it.

[@TheNamesJT]

I'm really liking soulstone survivors give me path of exile vibe if that arpg was turned into a rougelike

[@zeherath]

Neuron Activator hahahah Love it !

[@DarkFox2232]

Demo was OK. But finished it successfully on 1st run. Full version not ready, yet. Depending on what we are unlocking after each run, there may be a lot of replayability or very little. Extra characters shown in menu for unlocking look nice. Game has very simplistic controls, which make it well compatible with Steam Deck. Comparing it to bit higher tier game like Halls of Torment, I do not expect price tag higher than $5 USD. If it is $3.5 or less, it is instant buy for me, even if I'll have no time to play it within next 6 months.

[@FluffyFractalshard]

Path of exile ruined the itemization of any rpg for me. Back when harvest was still good, being able to craft my own semi-gg gear from scratch handtailored to my build with like SO many different options was the peak of any itemization ever!

[@g.waits4gainz205]

cooooooool cheeeeeeeeeeeeesr!@!!! thgeres so many small time genre games that can be made for much cheaper for more of us to love and im so happy that people are doing quality better now instead of the absolute slugde of garbage cashgrabs or uninspiraed bad funded talen that still is there2

[@ulamss5]

Great gear progression system, but the combat gameplay looks unbelievably boring

[@JPgreekgaming]

I mean, most poe players spent 80% of their time in POB so this looks super engaging comparatively 😁

[@Ultimatum881]

Destiny 2 is on the complete opposite end of this 6:51

[@betasector]

Boring.

[@11ELFs]

I watched half of the video expecting you would stop explaining every little detail in the game, I can read, thank you.

[@KillaTundant]

Lol i skipped foward. Explaning everything in detail like that is unnecessary and kinda annoying tbh. If people never played the game themself they prob wont even understand most of it presented like a continuous ramble.

[@ZiggyDGaming]

I earn a good living explaining every little detail in games mate. It's okay if it isn't for you.

[@Ultimatum881]

224k don't lie bro