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I gave this game a try, three playthroughs, most of the times died due to lamp running out of fuel, once got killed by the boss on level 5. Here's what I have to say:

  • The performance is pretty bad for a game where you essentially click on menus. It misses key presses or doesn't update the screen fast enough.
  • There's no reason to progress to the next floor, cause you could just run around on a lower level and grind, cause the rewards remain the same(why don't gold and scroll opportunities give you more money/XP on higher levels?) and the gameplay remains the same as well. I gave it one more try, and now see the reason to progress past the boos, cause you will unlock new opportunities as well as access the shop to buy upgrades. But before you have to fight the boss, you can still grind on lower levels so that you could kill him in one or two hits.
  • Overall don't see the appeal of this game. You almost mindlessly click on whatever opportunity is more favorable to you, but you first nee the game to provide it to you, and this is not a situation you can affect in any way, from my experience, it's easy to run out of lamp oil, and all you can do is click whatever, hoping that one of the next options will be oil.

Thank you for giving a try. My end goal is to create a fast reaction roguelike while leaving a bit of room for the player to modulate his climb by chosing a lower floor to farm (giving less xp). I take your feedback into consideration for when I come to a point of balancing the game better.


Could you share your CPU, GPU and RAM please ? I'm aware of performances problems but not yet so hard that it would impact input registering.

Core i7-8550U

16 Gb RAM

Radeon RX 550

I've been looking at the task manager and it says that the gam maxes out my 2 Gb of dedicated video RAM, dunno if this has to do something with performance. I have a laptop with a pretty shoddy cooling system, so it starts throttling when the CPU temperature reaches 80 degrees, but the game runs slower even before it happens.