Look, that's a *bit* of a stretch!

Did play and rate your game though!

I was meaning to make a chessy thing at one point, is it a pain to code the basic mechanics or not too bad?

Really, really interesting.

I elaborated in my comment, but your entry actually solves a problem that irks me in the genre, you should be super proud.

I presume you ran short of time for content (i.e my units had aoe moves, but only ever one opponent, etc.) but I would really like to see this developed further.

It's easy to imagine cool spins on the mechanic, like high-strain high-reward moves, and enemies that build strain on you.

It was suuuuper satisfying when I figured out the strain system and started gaming it. Think I landed like a 4-5 hit combo on the Skullmurai.

Actually, it might be worth you formalizing a combo system in some way? That could potentially be awesome.

(on a side note, if you do take it further and UI isn't your jam, it would definitely be worth bringing someone on for that. You can get away with simplistic art in this genre, but these games live and die on the usability and communicability of their UI, as you probably know).

I really think there's something here worth building on.

Hey Andrew!

I just won your game... or I would of, if I didn't have some of those darn monsters spawn in unreachable locations.

There was something pretty gratifying about how invincible I felt after I put on that Cuirass, nice to play a traditional roguelike!

Yeah, I got a bit stumped by it too!

I was running away from random encounters but didn't spot the weapon in my playthroughs...

I really liked the art and general atmosphere of your game, some decent writing too!

I felt like if there were smaller rooms between air, but you had to do time consuming tasks in those rooms, it would ratchet up the tension further. 

Like having to weld, or push something. Any action that takes time, especially an unexpected one.

I do like the tension of not knowing how far you have to go, but there's something to be said for a one room set-piece as well!

Only issue I had while playing was that sometimes in the topdown segments I was a little unclear on where I could and could not walk; sometimes what I thought was a wall turned out to be a path, and so on.

Thanks for sharing!