WALKTHROUGH
Spoiler alert. If you wanna find out for yourself how this game works, stop reading now!
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Since I’ve played through, and beat the game a few times, here’s some observations:
Unless you reboot the game you will keep all in your inventory except what you have scrapped, or are wielding when you die. So, if you can tell you are going to lose a round, try switching to cheaper gear.
When you pass the teleporter to the next level, the weaponry you’re wielding becomes your defaults, so bring out the good stuff here.
The color effect on weaponry and potions is random so test them in less harmful situations first. They remain the same in the next rounds even if you die, and until you reboot the game. The effects I have identified are:
HEALING
DAMAGE
EXPLOSIVE
POISON
CURE POISON
They will distribute roundabout like so: Explosives are great as thrown potions, not so much in melee combat on a sword or shield, as you will take damage as well, and they are a very bad idea to drink.
A potion that damages you will heal your enemy. Likewise if it poisons you, it will cure a poisoned enemy.
ENEMIES from weakest to strongest
Pink cyclop
Red spider
Orange bat
Green frog
Blue skull
White giant — can poison you randomly
TACTICS
Do not take on every enemy, retreat if necessary, and take another route. Enemies are not really aggressive — although they do seem to circle in on you and protect loot — so it is often possible to go through the room and bypass them completely. But they drop weaponry and potions so kill them if possible. Higher enemies drop better gear so conserve your energy for those.
If health is low and you have no healing potions, heal yourself with a sword on lower enemies til health is back up. Healing on high lvl enemies does not work as well, (though I suspect a higher lvled weapon migh be better).
These are just some preliminary observations, there is still stuff Ithat needs to be uncovered — like what imbuing potions does for instance — but I’d need to crunch more numbers to do so, and … well you know, I’ll prolly not get round to that. Hehe.
However if you, like I did to begin with, think this game can not be beat, there are strategies that will get it done. Hope this helps, and happy gaming!
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PS: Game dev. do correct me if I’m wrong, or feel free to remove this comment if you dont wanna reveal the inner workings. :)