I'm super late and I'm far too inexperienced at this genre to properly give feedback, but I still wanted to comment that the game is coming along great and it runs way better than the last time I played. 

I'm also going to steal your method of blocking off the later levels for next DD.  

Running on ToK.22f, hard mode, iron man.

I used wands on the first Golden Goblin and can confirm that it works and does not bug out.

I created this very strong ring using the second Golden Goblin. But, now that I check it many levels later, is it bugged? It seems to increase strength and not all stats.

Sometimes my equipment falls off due to taking off or changing other equipment. Could that have something to do with it? Or maybe that the ring was created by the Golden Goblin?

Poison on the player character does not appear to stack, unless I am mistaken. Is that on purpose?

You wrote somewhere that you intended to make the Breeding Grounds more open. I do not believe that is necessary, or at least, you could keep one of those levels like it currently is and then change the other one. More traps, enemy variety? For the second level, playing into the "breeding", have temporary enemies spawn? Like, giving an enemy a summon spell like the snake summon spell the player has? But that might run counter to the player's expectation and possibly also the game design and game balance.

Why do I have 52 intelligence? I do not believe my items should add up to that. Is it a bug? I did put a lot of points into intelligence, but I am playing on hard mode, and I have unspent ability points.

Wait, I just switched around a lot of gear to try to figure out what the source of the intelligence was, and now I am at 60 intelligence with the same gear as before.

I think I figured out how. Changes to secondary weapon and shield, stats not sufficient and drops including shield, switch back, pick up equipment.

https://fastupload.io/n92WEZwVTFjH3FY/file

One way to robustly fix this in programming might be to not directly mutate the "final" variables and try to keep them accurate always, but instead just store all "sources" of attributes. And then, whenever equipment changes for whatever reason, you recalculate the final attribute value from all sources. It can be a bit finicky, but should possibly be much more robust than straight-up mutation and a better trade-off in the code, and the computational cost should be a non-issue since it is just the main character and very few equipment slots and sources. That might fix a number of different bugs related to stats - the ring I forged with the  Golden Goblin also appeared buggy in regards to stats. In some ways inspired by "reactive" programming, or like Excel cells, or "unidirectional data flow", but just limited to stats. It will likely take you time to implement that subsystem and replace the current apparent direct-mutation-bookkeeping method you use.

I do not know whether my iron man hard mode run is now ruined, because having 108 intelligence is over-powered. At least "intelligence" first and foremost affects the ability to read books.

Wait, my maximum mana is also affected. I have 195 mana. That must be from the paladin's shield, since the "mind" ability is what gives extra maximum mana.

I will end my run and claim that I lost due to being completely over-powered due to unintentional exploit-usage due to bugs.

I still have not completed an iron man hard mode run. Much sadness.

Iron man + hard mode run. The Itch app is leading me to believe I am running ToK.22e, but I do not know whether I can trust it.

I could be wrong, but the Golden Goblin may be bugged with wands (or, read the sections below, unique items, since I tried to give it a unique shield first). I put in 3 wands with decent attributes, but got a completely generic (I think no properties) wand. And when I dropped it on the floor, it apparently disappeared - I am 98% it is not in my inventory or anywhere near me. Was it bugged? I think this may make the run harder, since I gave my best wands, including one that had hallowed damage and gave +6 attack rating.

Wait, I think a lot is bugged now, I dropped some other items, and they disappeared, and I am trying to drop a potion, and the game does not allow me to drop potions. Wait, now I can drop potions, but they disappear into nothingness.

I am attaching Player.log , I can see a lot of exceptions at the end. In case it matters, I first tried to give the Golden Goblin the unique paladin shield Guiding Eyes, since I hoped to combine it with two magical shields and get a better shield - but I do not know whether unique items can be given to the Golden Goblin. But the Golden Goblin would not accept the unique shield. So I instead gave it 3 wands. For some reason, the Player.log file mentions ToK.22b, even though I would guess that I am running ToK.22e .

Player.log : https://uploadify.net/03a81c83cf296af4/Player.log

The main ways of attempting to reproduce the bug might be to try first with wands and see if that works without any bugs. And if it does, then next try by giving it a unique item, and then give it wands (or maybe just some other items in case it is unique items that is giving problems).

Second Iron man run attempt, ToK.22c, again with a wand/spell character.

I left a lot of items, including the paladin's shield and a lot of books, at the stairs to the next level. I then went back later, but all the items were gone. Is this on purpose? It was in the "Hall Of Pain" level that I left those items.

For some reason, the game has felt substantially easier so far (at level "Upper Halls"). Maybe it is because I am spamming a level 3 "Ice Spike" spell against bosses that I cannot kite? Or different gear?

I have not found the boss that was imprisoned behind a lever. I do not believe I skipped anything. Is it random? I might have missed it after I encountered an obelisk that deleted the map I had of the level so far.

The "Pureblooded Bugman" again caught me by surprise and caused me a lot of damage, the first time I was in danger of dying. But I could comfortably jog away, stabilize, and then kite-spam "Ice Spike". I have learned the spell "Slow", but I forgot to use it in this case.

I am currently in the "Breeding Grounds 1" level, and I have just found the "Haste" spell. I am thinking of using it to move around the level more quickly, because I am taking more care to ensure that I have a clear escape route this time around. I also found a shield or fetish (I combined it with other items at a Golden Goblin) that gave mana steal percentage (the final item went from I think 7% to 5%, but the Golden Goblin transmutation also gave it faster attack speed). So, at this point, together with "Mana Shield" level 3, despite being a wand/mage character, I am now treating a lot of the basic battles as a melee character without kiting away. "Bloodlust" is at level 3. Boss battles can still very much be dangerous. Most of my inventory is filled with potions. I am being careful when approach new rooms and blind-firing using "shift", which just refilled about 1/4 of my mana without enemies getting near (I also have some "get mana on kill" items).

The "Breeding Grounds 1" level took a lot of time to clear and felt like it had a lot of enemies.

In "Breeding Grounds 2" level, it feels a bit that I am sometimes clearing rooms of enemies without ever seeing them by shift-blind-firing into those rooms. I can see that by my mana going up a lot and hearing "death" sounds.

I am leaving lots of potions behind.

I found a helmet that "Reduces all Physical Damage by 1". Does that refer to outgoing damage or incoming damage? I assume that it is the latter.

Finally completed "Breeding Grounds 2". That felt very boring, sorry. The same enemies over and over and I am barely ever losing mana due to mana stealing and mana shield being very efficient. And I have left behind lots of potions on the floor. I did not feel like there was much if any difference between 1 and 2 of "Breeding Grounds". Would it have been less boring if I had enabled the option at the beginning of the game to have fewer ability points per level? Any planned content? Did I luck out on equipment and spells, and have it too easy? I wonder how difficult the game is to balance.

Paladin camp seems nice.

Snake monsters.

The level "Lost Corridors" feels more difficult, and especially the "Truth Seekers" are adept at dealing damage from range. I am now spending potions, at least against bosses, since the bosses I have gotten so far was the very fast kind ("Temptresses"). I also suffer a bit of attrition from regular enemies.

There was a potion that I could not reach after temporarily dropping it:

Figured out how to dodge reliably the "Truth Seekers", which meant that I ended up gaining mana while ducking in and out near the entrance of a room full of them.

Will it be possible to have multiple quests at a time? Will there be UI to see an overview of them?

I went to an obelisk, and once I activated it, it said something like "The needs of the many cost one" (I do not remember). And my helmet dropped. I am not certain why - the helmet requires constitution. Did the requirements increase, or did I lose constitution? Something else?

Defeated the final boss and won the demo. Ended up "Ice spiking" her to death, and tried to take care not to run out of mana, since the mana shield spell is really, really efficient. I did not have my preferred helmet on, because I foolishly forgot to increase one extra point into constitution when I got a level up.

Only on Normal difficulty, not Hard, but still Iron man.

The last level was somewhat long, but more fun than the two previous levels, since I did not really have any attrition at all at those two previous levels, and I ended up mostly with not-that-dangerous bosses.

Final notes: This is not quite my type of game, but I did like some of the challenge and seeing if I could figure out how to beat the game without dying. In all cases I believe, I could just briskly walk away from the fast bosses (the only type of boss that was dangerous to the wand/mage build I was using, since I paid attention when fighting ranged enemies to see whether I was taking a lot of damage or not) while trying to figure out how to deal with the boss.

The quality and scope of the game is rather high, and there is a lot of different spells, I do not think I tried out even half of them. Probably should have on the levels that I had a large surplus of potions on the floor. I think it makes sense for the "shield" spells and the "booster" spells to only allow a limit of one at a time as you have it currently implemented.

It's like I'm playing Diablo 1 again! The atmosphere and feel of combat are pretty much perfect.

Made it to floor 4 but got stuck as I ran out of health potions. Are you planning to add a town or shops where you can buy more consumables?

I like the idea of weapon arts. The shield skills seemed a bit cumbersome to use in the middle of battle though. Maybe I'm used to just clicking on enemies and watching them die instead of having to time blocks/parries. Perhaps the skills would be better as buffs that you can just activate at the start of battle?

Also wish there was a confirm button when increasing attributes, I leveled up the wrong ones by accident.

Obligatory "not a orblike player".

I played this the last time during DD49 and managed to get until the boss in the 2nd floor with the red light. Well, today I managed to get to the 5th floor and kill my first 2 sun cultists. On that floor no amount of save scumming could save me. I was all out of potions and only had a 1-7 scimitar and 3-5 shield. 

I'm still not sure if I'm playing the game correctly. I try to clear the whole floor, pull the dudes if possible and avoid ranged attacks. But I always end up taking too much damage. Sometimes I find myself standing there and just hacking away at 5 dudes. Probably not the best way.

Overall extremely polished and fun! I'll give this another go later. Maybe try a mage character.

On Iron Man mode (I have not played DD50, but have played a build before that). Did not take the other start game option with weaker levels.

I am playing on ToK.22b, not ToK22.c, which was uploaded after I began playing.

I went with wand and shield.

In the in-game help system accessed with 'H', mouse wheel doesn't work with scrolling.

Nitpick: Iron bar gate doors/yetts seem to block projectiles, unlike iron bar walls which let projectiles pass through.

I often feel like I do not know when I am fighting a "regular" boss, except if my health decreases more quickly than usual and an enemy takes more time to kill than usual. The visual difference is not always clear. The game is of course generally dark.

Nitpick: Is there any way to move the minimap up, even if temporarily?

SPOILER START:

I had trouble with a boss locked in a room on the "Lower Dungeon 2" level. I entered the room at first, reading the text about "please let me out" and stuff. However, I was holding the left mouse button down all the time, and when I hovered over the lever in the room to read its text, I accidentally use the lever. The boss fight then started, and I felt unprepared and soon found myself outmatched. I then kept running away from the boss, occasionally taking damage when trying to attack at range with my wand. After running in circles for ages trying to figure out what to do, I tried using spells and timing it, which I had a bit of success with, but could not do reliably without taking damage. I had trouble re-equipping health potions during the fight, but found out that if I clicked far away, the character would keep moving, giving me time to middle-click health potions in the inventory. However, I ended up running out of health potions. Then I tried going to the main menu and load again. That apparently placed me a bit away from the boss. After a few tries with going to the main menu and load the game again, I succeeded in starting far enough away from the boss for it not to chase me. I do not at this point know how to deal with the boss without gathering enough health potions and then trying to duke it out in "melee". I do not yet have a spell that enables me to slow the boss, which would enable kiting. I do not believe it is possible to run. Alternatively, I imagine that the way to deal with the boss is to avoid it, and come back later once you are stronger, but it would have been nice if I could not use that lever while holding down the left mouse button, since I did not intend to open the door (I had not yet arranged all my health potions to prepare for the boss even).

I only found a spell book of "Ice spike" on the "Halls Of Pain" level.

SPOILER END.

Nitpick or suggestion: For the spells that have levels, include a level number in the icon in the spell book?

Nitpick or suggestion: Add an "auto-sort" button to inventory to avoid having to manually move potions around? Though sorting like this can be computationally complex. I would still think that a basic sort that just tries to move potions to for instance the right would well decently.

Nitpick: In "Halls Of Pain", there is something called "???" that offers to give equipment in return for 5 years of the MC's life. Is the "???" a placeholder name or on purpose? I would guess on purpose, but just asking to double-check. I tried to attack him with shift-leftclick with a wand, which not surprisingly did nothing :) . I did not take the offer, so I do not know what that does and did not test it, sorry.

Nitpick: Why is the default hotkey for changing inventory equipment backquote? Is that not awkward to use on many keyboards? It also did not work for me I think. But if it works well on most keyboards, I would guess that it is fine since it can be rebinded.

The slow effect of "Ice Spike" does not appear to work against the sun warriors with the big hammers, is this on purpose?

I ended up fighting a very fast "skinless/flayed" boss on the "Halls of Pain" level, and I ended up using the "go to menu-load again and appear a bit away" exploit to "kite" away from him and avoid aggro. I first tried using "Ice Spike", but for whatever reason (whether I was too unskilled at doing it or that tactic not working, I failed to kite him with pure "Ice Spike" usage without taking damage. I do not feel like I can outskill that boss, and I am out of health potions, so my current strategy is just to leave that boss behind using the exploit.

Now I have encountered another very fast "skinless/flayed" boss on the "Halls of Pain" level. I am going to attempt using the exploit against it again. I succeeded, lured it back a way, used the exploit in a long hall, and can continue. Count of bosses left behind, lurking in the darkness, biding their time (across multiple levels): 2 regular bosses, 1 special boss. I do not quite know how I could have defeated the two regular bosses with a wand/spell character (just spamming a good damage spell and have enough health and mana potions?), but that might be a skill issue on my part.

I still have not found any way to regain health outside of potions (outside of the "cauldron" spells, which I on principle am not going to use - possibly at the cost of my MC's life), not any lifestealing or manastealing items either, apart from one melee weapon gaining something on kill I think, but I discarded that due to my character focusing on wands and spells. I think at the end of "Halls Of Pain" I found an amulet that gives 1 mana on kill.

On "Upper Halls", I found a ring that gave 1 health on kill.

I found a book of "Mana Shield" in "Upper Halls".

In "Upper Halls", I defeated a very fast (and large) boss purely by using level 1 "Ice Spike". I still spent a fair number of health potions, but I had managed to lose very little health in part by relying on the "Mana Shield" spell and in part by kiting and being careful, so I still have some health potions left.

State of the game so far:

Maybe I am wrong, but, if you are being chased, and you leave a slow enemy's line of sight, might it despawn entirely?

For some reason, the minimap is in the center now. On earlier levels, I believe it was offset down.

Nitpick: When being damaged while having a mana shield and not losing any health, would it be possible for some "mana-shield-clang" sound to be played instead of the "aw" sound that is played when the character loses health? Maybe play both when the mana shield is emptied and the player loses both health and mana in one attack?

I wonder whether my strategy of leveling up both "mind" and "intelligence" is a poor one, since both increase offensive options in some way ("intelligence" also provides some defensive options). On the other hand, some "mage-type" gear that give bonuses to both "mind" and "intelligence" requires "intelligence" of a certain level to use.

On one of the first levels, I used a "menacing obelisk", and I think it decreased my maximum health by 2, with a message that included "exertion". On a later level, another "menacing obelisk" said something about treasures being refilled, but I did not want to go back, since the bosses I exploit-escaped still lurked in the shadows on earlier levels. But now I am in "The Burrows", I have a good stock of health and mana potions, and I have encountered another "menacing obelisk". So I think I will take my chances, backtrack, see if I can defeat the bosses, and look if there is any new treasures in previous levels (I am not quite certain why previous levels would get treasures refilled, since it sounds a lot like backtracking), and after all that, activate the "menacing obelisk" I have found here in "The Burrows".

I have killed all 3 bosses (the two regular bosses and the special boss) that I exploit-escaped earlier. I use level 1 "Ice Spike" spam against them all. One of the regular bosses dropped the paladin's shield. The special boss dropped "Lashing Claw", which I am not going to use due to my build, but which looks interesting. During my backtracking, I did not see any new treasures, so I do not understand what the message of the second "menacing obelisk" meant.

Some minimap objects are apparently not stored, but can be rediscovered, like pillars in "The Burrows", and I think at least one exit in one level.

The third "menacing obelisk" shot out a lot of fireballs which dealt 31 damage to me, luckily I was at full health at 83, so I am now at 52 health. It said "Evil lurks where we least expect it".

I think it was primarily the bosses in the early levels that were difficult to recognize, at least the bosses of the last few levels were recognizable. But I have not completed the game yet, and this is on Iron man mode, so I might not survive until the end.

I found a book of "Bloodlust" in "The Burrows", near the ancient skeleton level entrance. With the "Fetish Idol" I have that gives a level in it, I now have access to "Bloodlust" level 2. The "Bloodlust" spell scales really well and seems really nice for a wand-focused user, but I have yet to test in practice how good level 2 "Bloodlust" is compared to not using "Bloodlust" (the 40% extra damage should be substantial).

I wonder what would happen if I gathered and gave all the unique items I found to the golden goblin or what it is called (I already used it previously with mage-type equipment, and got a good crown, which I am using). I do not know if it always gives "build-appropriate" equipment or not, and how it would check that, so making it dependent on the type of equipment you give it would make sense, I think.

I am overflowing with potions now:

I encountered a "Pureblooded bugman" boss. I could not differentiate it from the other enemies easily, apart from the huge amounts of health and damage output of it. I messed up and almost died (got to like 8 health when I escaped in the wrong direction - I also ended up attacking enemies when I really wanted to run and flee at one point, which I think is my fault and not the fault of the game), and when I tried "Ice Spike" spam, it tanked through it, and I had to escape. I found out that it is possible to escape enemies through going to an earlier level, which I did not realize until now. I re-equipped potions, went back to the level "The Burrows", and tried kiting it a bit, since its pausing just barely allows kiting, but I ended up switching between kiting and "Ice Spike". It finally died, but I did spend a fair number of health and mana potions on it. I still have a lot of potions left, though. Is ice damage weak against that type of enemy?

It is a bit annoying when enemies that are close by and which would clearly be in line of sight of the main character can hide completely behind walls from what the player can see. Would it make sense if enemies showed their outline (like when you hover over them with your mouse) when an enemy is both: In line of sight of the character; Is fairly close by; Is behind a wall?

I found a book of "Haste"! I did not know the game had a spell like this. I wonder if this means I will be able to reliably kite many enemies including bosses, as long as I have at least a bit of mana left. I found it somewhat late, in "The Burrows" level. It is rather expensive, however, at 10 mana.

The level "The Burrows" have a very nice creepy-crawly atmosphere.

On the level "The Burrows", the entrance to the ancient skeleton level is not saved on the minimap and is only added to the minimap once you re-discover it.

That level is called "Skeleton Pit". But is one of the lower, earlier levels not also called something like that?

The "Ancient Golem" is very large and menacing, but not so dangerous for a ranged-focused build.

I have replaced "Manashield" with "Haste" in my Spell Wheel, but I have not used it yet for a practical purpose (currently in the ancient skeleton level).

I found a minor visual bug, with a black poodle where my character is visually on top of it but the lightning shots from my wand go below it: https://ufile.io/xfq3vusx

My "Purifying Circle" spell is at level 2, and I have found three books for it that I cannot use yet due to too low "intelligence" level.

The unique weapons seem interesting, I like the "Non-Euclidean Basher", though I am not going to use it due to the wand-mage build that I am using.

The ancient skeleton level might be the first level that I have found equipment that has "steal percentage health/mana" properties.

I think the game froze when I used lightning disk, or when it hit an enemy, or something:

I have had the game running for some time after the crash, but the log file at "C:\Users\itch-player-redacted\AppData\LocalLow\osur\Tower of Kalemonvo\Player.log"  is over 2GB by now!

The Itch player wants me to update to version 22c, but will my Iron Man save carry over? However, I can also choose to not update, so I am continuing in 22b.

I am moving the Player.log file , and am using " Get-content -tail 50 .\Player.log" in Powershell (as per https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36507343/get-last-n-lines-or-bytes-of-a-huge... ) to get the last 50 lines in it:

(Filename: C:\buildslave\unity\build\Runtime/Export/Debug/Debug.bindings.h Line: 39)
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(Filename: C:\buildslave\unity\build\Runtime/Export/Debug/Debug.bindings.h Line: 39)
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(Filename: C:\buildslave\unity\build\Runtime/Export/Debug/Debug.bindings.h Line: 39)
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(Filename: C:\buildslave\unity\build\Runtime/Export/Debug/Debug.bindings.h Line: 39)
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But I do not know how useful that is to you.

Continuing in a new post.

I'll preface this by saying that I'm not into orblikes so maybe all I'm going to say it's wrong.

I started on normal difficulty with a wand and shield and I played until burrows without dying once, with the magic build I was running only the boss monsters ever touched me, it felt a little cheesy.
Potion management is a little clunky, maybe a system like in Sacred where instead of a potion hotbar you have potion hotkeys that consumes them straight out of your inventory might be smoother

If it's meant to punish you for being unprepared then it works sometimes, but for most bosses it doesn't really take much to put your character in auto-walk and quickly fill your hotbar with new potions.

Sometimes enemies are hidden by walls, an outline around spotted enemies like for Items might help with that.

But I haven't encountered any bugs and playing around with new spells was fun, it just got repetitive in the last few floors I played.
At one point I stopped dodging projectiles and started tanking enemies while they grouped around my fire traps just because I had too many healing potions.

Again, orblet opinion, feel free to disregard.

I never played an orblike before, so take what I say with a grain of salt. I played a couple floors as a sword and board warrior. Didn't run into any bugs my first playthrough. But after reloading I got stuck on a door (sent you the webm in the thread), and when I tried to save and load at that point it kept loading. Restarting allowed me to load back, but the door was still blocked. If you tell me where your saves are stored I can send you the save.

The game was easy enough to pick up, though it was strange that you start with skills you can't even use, fortunately everything was well explained/tooltipped. Additionally I couldn't find a use for the shield since blocking both costs mana and enemy moves aren't very telegraphed.

Not being able to attack unless clicking on an enemy also felt strange, as did the random misses(?) when fighting enemies. Floating damage numbers would also be nice.

The enemy graphics are nice and fit the game really well. The rooms themselves seem quite random and empty, but I guess that's typical for orblikes.