Rogue's Tale is a single player turn-based dungeon crawling game. The game takes place in a place called Frostmourn Keep and its underlying dungeons located in the World's End Mountains. The goal is to overthrow the current king of the Frostmourn Keep and become the new king. A demo version and game guide can be found on the homepage. Key features: - Classless character building where you can choose to be the kind of rogue you want. - Seemingly unfair, untimely and unforgiving deaths which are also permanent. - Ways to counter these deaths by learning the game mechanics. - Random dungeons and encounters. - 24 talents to build your character with. - 30 spells to build your character even further. - 30 heritages that make your next character stronger. - 30 challenges to complete once you get the hang of the game.
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This game is simply awesome, one of the best roguelike games I've seen in years (and I've seen a lot).
You start as a simple rogue, with no skills, no armor, no magic - just a dagger and some food. You can complete different Challenges and Heritages through the game to expand the starting skills and equipment (which means you have to complete the heritage/challenge and then die, which you most certainly will do).
All checks are made via D6 roll - that makes some checks almost completely random, and there are some situations you can't get out even if you're an awesome player with outstanding eqipment.
You will die a lot, in many stupid ways, and then, when you feel almost invincible, a rock falls on top of you or you just step into a spiked pit right in front of two cave bears with no polymorph scrolls/spell with you.
The main goal is to kill a King and become one yourself (see Highscores for current list of ex-kings).
I absolutely love the design: while the menu reminds me of Warcraft III (which is nice), the game itself looks simple yet thorough. I hope Nibbe will be able to expand the set of spells, items and enemies soon.
As for buying this game - you should totally do this: I mean, game is fun (I've spent more than 100 hours playing it, and I've downloaded it only a few weeks ago, lol), and it's made by ONE guy!